Un. Herbed Potatoes~La Cuisine Française

Happy New Year and welcome to this year’s new cooking international challenge. Sardines. That is not the challenge but I love those canned fishy things. And this is how my french cooking for the year got started. Not real french food but I did find something totally easy to make for the first day of…

Pears Falling

As I write this, I am looking out my window and checking out the trees in all their splendor. Beautiful. This makes me think about fall and desserts and gardens. A couple of months ago, a local area Garden Club invited me to do a program that included bringing to the table a presentation of…

Blue Ribbon Barbecue Chicken Cheeseburger

This is one really good burger. The recipe originates from Bromberg Bros. Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken in NYC. The combination of bacon, cheddar cheese, and a really good barbecue sauce with the ground chicken patty made it a powerhouse of a burger. I used a really good natural barbecue sauce-no artificial stuff in it or…

Sweet Revenge

“Revenge is sweet, but not fattening”~ Hemingway. That quote is not true. I used to work in a law firm where the majority of the workers were women. If you work in any office anywhere where there are two or more people, food will always be around the office in every corner-count on it. There…

Best Thai Recipe Green Curry Pork Tenderloin~Replicated

An original recipe from Root Down restaurant in Denver, a food magazine reader wanted to make this Pork dish in her home. It looked complicated but interesting. I ruminated over it for sometime. I thought about the recipe ingredients, the look, the occasion, before I attempted to replicate it. I found the occasion- a birthday…

Chili Weekend

If you live in our area, the temps are going down and there is no better time than to make a pot of chili. So pull out that Dutch oven and get cooking. But wait, what if you don’t have a Dutch oven? And what is a Dutch oven? A Dutch oven is a thick-walled…