Finding a good commercial enchilada sauce is really difficult. Even the Hatch brand is tepid at best. So, we decided to make our own green enchilada sauce, and it turned out to be really good, not only as a sauce, but also as a salsa. The consistency is chunky, unlike the commercial [...]
In between the yearly influenza epidemic, springtime pollen and environmental allergies, here comes the swine flu! What to do? How can we carry on when faced with body aches, fever, sore throat, cough and the general miseries? Few of us here have the luxure of cocooning into freshly washed linens, while Mommy rubs Vicks Vap-O-Rub [...]
What a perfect day yesterday was here. The sky was an intense blue, the maple leaves are turning, it was foggy on the water in the morning but burned off by noon. We went to our first oyster picking in Puget Sound. I won this at an auction last spring at our UUC church. There [...]
This pickled red onion recipe is a wonderful accompaniment to many dishes. Use your imagination!
One of the best and most lively restaurants in San Francisco is ChaChaCha in Haight Ashbury. It is a Cuban/Puerto Rican/Chinese tapas place that is a feast for the eyes (Santeria alters on the walls) as well as the palate. If you can find the cookbook on Ebay, it’s well worth the purchase price. Here’s [...]
For Biscuit:
I heard this recipe many years ago on an NPR interview of an African matriarch. She was really personable and made sure that the reporter got the recipe right!
I don’t know what attracted me so much to curries such that they now constitute the only dishes I cook for myself on a regular basis. This makes me an oddity in my home (Puerto Rico) where spicy (hot) food is not normally a part of the traditional menu. I guess I can [...]
Preface to the First Edition:
“But for life the universe were nothing: and all that life has requires nourishment.”
Summertime and the livin’ is easy, fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high….
Recipe for Dulce de Leche Gelato
For this recipe, there’s the gelato base, and then there’s dulce de leche, which is just folded into the finished gelato or drizzled over [...]
In the South of France rosemary grows in huge hedges, like laurel and the colorful oleander.