I did some good things in the kitchen yesterday. I made a batch of pear chutney. I also browned a small, tough beef round steak along with c...

The annual Thanksgiving lunch at work was today. I brought sweet potatoes. Most sweet potatoes on Thanksgiving tables are really gross -- ei...

Thanksgiving turkey probably involves more advice, worry, clucking, and carrying on than any other meal in our culture. It's not that ha...

This is my favorite way to eat collard greens: cut into strips, with the ribs chopped up small, and sauteed in the fat from one or two piece...

You could say this is the meal that got Cooking Habit started, although we never posted it here. It was the first recipe I discovered and to...

How can this be so good? It's a recipe throwback from the seventies, first seen on the back of a Bisquick box. It's not really a pie...

It was hard to get a pretty picture of this meal, but boy did it taste good. I bought ground lamb and made a Claudia Roden recipe in which ...

Here are our first tangerines of the year (we had eight.) They are hard to peel and a little on the fibrous side, but have a delightful tang...

We've had many beautiful green and leafy things lately, with the fall garden in production and fall vegetables in the markets. This Brus...

No, we didn't eat the dog. We adopted her, and that's why I haven't posted much this week. I've been exhausted and, I'm ...

I enjoyed your Butternut Squash Soup post. Dad is always encouraging me to make soup for dinner--an excellent idea, so why do I resist? Well...

We went to the beach with some friends this weekend, and there we improvised a meal of shrimp and grits. The meal was also supposed to conta...

Brittany asked me for some healthy baking recipes. I thought I had lost track of this one, but fortunately Mom still had her copy of Simply ...

This is pretty close to Julia Child's beer and onion pot roast recipe from Volume 1 of Mastering . I browned a big piece of lean, toug...

As far as I can tell, the only essential ingredient in the wonderful Mexican stew posole (also spelled pozole) is hominy. After that it vari...