On a recent work trip to Tucson, Arizona I was invited by a college roommate to extend my stay so we could spend the weekend together. As she and I were planning my visit, the only request I made of her was for her to agree to teach me how to make one of her […]
Since I was a little girl helping my mother with the family vegetable garden, tomatoes have been my all time favorite vegetable (actually they’re a fruit). I remember plucking those tender, warm, sweet cherry tomatoes off the vine and popping more into my mouth than the gathering basket. Summer meals always included freshly sliced tomatoes. […]
Last night was another installment of our Supper Club Dinner parties. It was our friend’s turn to host. Since one of the member couples was celebrating their wedding anniversary and several of us have taken cruises together…the host couple settled on the dinner theme of “The Love Boat.” When the “love” theme was brought up, […]
Have you ever come across a recipe online that looked quite simple, but you had no idea that it would become one of your favorites? Yep. That just happened. Today’s recipe was found on Facebook. It was posted on the FoodTV Facebook page and now lands on my list for the top 10 best slow […]
In keeping with my cooking with friends and family project for 2019, we recently welcomed our good friends over to share with us a favorite recipe. Doug and Gina have been friends of ours for at least 20 years. Like many young parents, we got to know each other through our sons who played pee […]
It’s become somewhat of a tradition that I make cupcakes for family member’s birthdays. So this week it was time to bake something special to celebrate my son’s 27th birthday. Yes…I know cupcakes may seem a bit juvenile, but as you have seen on food tv and in food magazines, individual gourmet cupcakes can be […]
What an absolute pleasure it is to cook with the woman who first taught me how to make good food. On a recent trip to Naples, Florida I put “cooking with Momma” on the top of my list. Each February I leave my home in the frigid Midwest and head to South Florida where she […]
I love to travel. I’m blessed to get to visit places all over the US for my work. I also travel for pleasure. Each February I make an annual trip to South Florida to visit my Mother. It’s a much needed escape from the frigid temperatures we have here in Central Missouri. So whenever possible […]
For me one of my favorite things about food is its history. Of course I love to cook, feed others, eat and try new things. But I am equally interested in the origins or stories behind food. Sometimes the dish represents a broad culture or region of the world. Sometimes recipes represent a smaller view […]
It was back in the early 1990s that I learned to make this absolutely decadent and delicious Bolognese sauce. This is not your typical Italian American red sauce with meat. In fact it has very little tomato in it. What it does have is amazing depth of flavor that you get from doing things in […]
Over the years I have made a lot of Carnitas. But today I wanted to switch things up and give Beef Barbacoa a try. It’s a very popular dish at the fast casual restaurant, Chipotle. It has also become one of my slow-cooker favorites. Much like chili, carnitas and mole…there are a bunch of different […]
For my latest “Cooking with Friends” project I invited one of my longtime friends over to join me in the kitchen. Lynn wanted to share her recipe for Individual Chicken Pot Pies. She chose this recipe as one of her favorites because it represented “family”. Several years ago when she and her current husband were […]