MORE TIME AT THE TABLE

( Just thinking:  If you're interested in the huge South Dakota snowstorm, please read my friend Margaret Watson's post on her bl...

If you're a loving cook (and most cooks are), you make your loved ones' favorite foods.  In fact, you know that what we love --...

It's too warm to do much cooking indoors unless you do it in the wee small hours of the morning.   Lately I'm not up then unless ...

   I'm going on vacation after this post. The blog is going with me.  See you late June!  If you weren't up for a new tuna sa...

Most people, when they decide to make salad, just make a salad.  A quick opening of the refrigerator door.  A glance at the counter.  A ...

 It is snowing, sleeting, and blowing in Saint Paul.  Again.  I mostly don't mind it.  As long as I don't have to drive. ...

My favorite place for pumpkin seeds is in my mouth.  Preferably with salt or salt with cumin and cayenne.  I also like them on top of pu...

There are meals when the main course is light, delicate -- a brothy-frothy soup  or a small piece of white fish with a few vegetables.  ...

Tuna Salad Quesadillas -- a Recipe in a Title  If you read both blogs regularly, you'll be starting to feel like I'm hooked on ...

Israeli (Pearl) Couscous, butternut squash, apples, pears, figs, cranberries, cheese, and pecans with an orange vinaigrette--cornucopia...

from a June, 2012 post (A note to my readers:  This blog has been publishing with an odd display and, in an attempt to restore its app...

 While I didn't grow up eating kale, I got to it as soon as I could.  My folks were transplan...

Just add fork Sometimes I don't know what gets into me.  I know I have something leftover and simple from which to create a meal.  S...

Stay cool! Where we live in Saint Paul, it can already be warm pretty early in the morning.  I'm a  morning person; th...

                                                        Chicken-Guacamole Salad with a Big Squeeze of Fresh Lime...  If you live in t...

Dedicated to Gus and Irene Matthews Hello!  I missed you.  (Actually, I didn't; I had no time to miss anything.)  But I'm happy ...

Necessity is the mother of invention. As is a determination to use what's available in the larder. Tonight, I had probably hal...

Poached Eggs:  They're not just for breakfast anymore.   Alyce's  Poached Egg Chef's Salad If you saw the movie "Julie ...

After a busy season of church, family, and travel, I'm back.  I missed blogging, but simply couldn't find ...

  Don't know what to do with chicken?  How about cook it? I simply don't know how to do anything without doing it with all my...