The Refrigerator Stack Dinner

Being home alone, for a week, with a refrigerator full of leftovers from various meals, meant I either had to jettison that food into the trash or eat it all myself. With an eye of discernment, I surveyed the scene and contemplated the different meals that those stray and unwanted foods might be coerced [...]

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Almost Art Smiths Pistachio Chicken in Curry Sauce

Infrequently, I try a recipe that someone hands off to me. This one came from the Oprah website, a site known for a variety of offerings yet never a recipe that I’ve enjoyed without alteration or enhancement. This recipe was no different—so I made it not once but twice.
The first time I followed the recipe [...]

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Nothing Fishy about These Tacos

Something about sunshine, warmer winds and an optimism that spring will bloom soon turns my attention to recipes with fish.  In the darker days of winter, a nice hot bowl of chowder or seafood stew grabs my appetite.  However, in the spring a good fish fry is in order.
In California, fish tacos easily come to [...]

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Swordfish with Sweet-tart fruity Sun-dried Tomato Pesto

One of my favorite condiments is a fresh basil pesto.  Over the years, I’ve created and adapted many of my own versions of pesto using different flavor bases with a variety of seeds, seasonings and nuts.  A wonderful winter version of basil pesto, though, is a sweet-tart fruity Sun-dried Tomato Pesto.
I wish I could say [...]

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Middle Eastern Felafel, My Style

Recently, several of my peers highlighted an old favorite legume, the chickpea—or garbanzo bean. Dorine highlighted the raw chickpea in this article, Fresh Chickpeas. Shortly thereafter, Richard Frisbie wrote about techniques for cooking our little bean here, Foodbites. Sonia Martinez followed up with a rousing article about cooking from scratch, Cooking from [...]

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