If you find yourself in the woods this spring, look for the red colored ramps which can be used in this recipe. When we backpack in the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming, we always look for ramps and put them in whatever soup, stew, or main dish is on the […]
I knew my article was on page 23 of the Cooking Light Magazine, but it took a friend to point out that it was my recipe on the cover! Wow, that is my recipe isn’t it? How I had missed this little detail is beyond me. It is a little […]
Granola takes minutes to make in the microwave. It is as quick as any breakfast and I love to put all kinds of yummy things in it…..like walnuts, pepitas (pumpkin seeds), flax seeds, and coconut – not to mention dried fruit. For this particular recipe, I left out the dried […]
Louisiana food is an unusual experience for many, but especially for this Iowa farm girl. Who could imagine that there was a place where I could have two gardens a year? The rose trellis at the end of the covered porch was covered with hundreds of an antique variety of […]
I love crostini….but if I have to be 100% honest – it is that I love toasted bread, and that is exactly what crostini is! With the addition of a drizzle of olive oil, garlic and maybe even a topping. When I would come home from track practice in […]
On a whim I decided to make some chili powder. I took a handful of dried chilies, baked them even drier in my oven, and used a little coffee grinder to make chili powder out of them. Andria walked in the house after her sports practice, ravenous, ready-to-eat-cardboard-hungry and said […]
Louisiana holds great memories for me. I was young, just married, totally in love (now married 30 years and counting) and hosting my own TV cooking show. Crawfish were always a popular topic, and I had more than a few stories to tell. I am not sure if everyone was […]
When I came home from Africa, I said that I was never going to go back to the way I was. I was going to dance like no one was watching, sing like no one could hear, love like I had never been hurt, work like I didn’t need the […]