This is my favorite bean salad. It's vegan, it's served at room temperature so it's great for a potluck, and it's pretty. ...

I know we've both posted about frittata, but this one is a little different for me. I saw it in Parade magazine in last Sunday's p...

We stayed at Percha Dam State Park along the Rio Grande River in southern New Mexico again last week. Last October when we visited there, t...

See our zucchini plant? It's nearly ready to bloom. I used a couple of larger yellow squashes last night to make a dish by Viana La Pla...

Mary Ellen loved this last night, so I am posting the recipe for her. Cube some red or Yukon Gold potatoes , cover with water, and boil for ...

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.