Back in January I posted about curing the olives from our backyard tree. It took a long time, maybe about two months total, but they were ...

I didn't do anything very fancy with this. I just boiled the corned beef, cooked the carrots and potatoes separately, and added the ca...

This is my first loaf of bread in the new oven. It's a convection oven, which I've never used for bread before. I used a plain old p...

I got this recipe from the Arizona Daily Star. I usually make a bread crumb version of these, but this is better. I use a little less oil ...

Here is some of Dad's beautiful pak choy. I cooked the first smaller heads whole, but these were a little larger so I cut them into sli...

This is delicious and easy. Most granolas are too sweet, I think. Granola 1/4 cup vegetable oil 3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats (not qu...

We have an olive tree behind our house and this year for the first time since we moved in, it had abundant olives. Dad picked a couple of q...

We brought Bev a two-pound fillet of ono from Suisan Fish Company in Hilo. It is the most excellent and prized of Hawaiian fishes, and she ...

I have read that one can make tamales using canola oil instead of lard or Crisco, so I bravely tried it. They tasted okay, but didn't h...

This was an excellent recipe--I picked it up at the fish counter at Sprouts. I bet it would make perfect tostadas, too.

Look how pretty this lunch was! The salad is from City Roots , and contained nasturtium flowers and leaves, pea shoots and arugula shoots, I...

We had many of the usual dishes on Thanksgiving: Portuguese-style turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, applesauce, pumpki...

I'm in love again--this time with my new cookbook Tagine: Spicy Stews from Morocco , by Ghillie Basan. Dad noticed it in a cooking sto...

We have two varieties of sage in the herb garden at present. I don't know their names but I certainly admire the way they hung in there...

I love mushrooms and would like to use them more. I bought these portobellos because they were beautiful, but with no plan in mind. Viana ...