S awsan from chef in disguise was our March 2013 Daring Cooks hostess! Sawsan challenges us to make our own homemade cheeses! She ga...

O ur current Cook the Books Club selection is The Shape of Water , by Andrea Camilleri. A favorite author of mine, though on second ...

 I will start off this post with a disclaimer about sausages.  They are not my favorite food.  Also, grinding meat and stuffing pig in...

F or Cook the Books Club , our latest read has been The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.   An inspired selection, for which the challen...

'' S ometimes known as Shepherds' Pie or Cottage Pie, aka Paté Chinois, a name I was completely unfamiliar with, albeit qui...

T hese were originally meant to be Baked Stuffed Apples, as per Carolyn Hart's fictional character, the handsome, all around fantast...

M ysteries and food, they make such a lovely pairing.  I can think of a number of writers who combine the two interests, and one ...

T his is not to be confused with Black Bean Soup, which I and probably most of you have made many times.  What we have here is a cultura...

A nother of those "bucket list" type foodie items, I'd been meaning, wanting, longing (maybe we're going too far here)...