Like many people who live in climates with multiple seasons, I use those seasons to guide my food habits. As Nancy Silverton remarks in The Cookie That Changed ...
As I noted in my post about “Irma’s Chicken Tortilla Casserole,” I prepared both that casserole and Susan Wolff Anderson’s “Fruit Dip / Fruit Platter” to serve ...
Garlic bread is a classic side with pasta in the United States, and it certainly is a favorite at our house. In a rush, we’ll pick it up at the grocery store, b...
The next day of the holiday weekend raised more opportunities for making festive food. We decided to make two more recipes from “Appetizers and Beverages,” both...
Shrimp Cocktail Next, I prepared Verna Shock’s “Shrimp Cocktail” so that we would have a second dip for our afternoon snack. We enjoyed this as well, especially...
Food for Fun in the Sun: Part I Over the gloriously long Fourth of July weekend, my family did our favorite things: Cook Eat Swim Bike Read Repeat, in no partic...
Dip Day! For several days in early June, the weather was hot, over 90 degrees Fahrenheit, and what was forecast as an “occasional thunderstorm” kept kicking us ...