I love Tex Mex food, and have ever since my family took a vacation to Texas and Mexico in the early 1970s. We rented a Winnebago, which seemed huge when...
Everyone knows about this bar cookie recipe, which was in the Pillsbury Bake-Off in 1967. Believe it or not, it did not win the Grand Prize! What most people don’t...
There are so many recipes for carrot cake. Some start with shredded whole carrots. Others use carrot baby food, or cooked carrot puree. Some use a carrot cake mix, which...
Chicken salad is a classic. You probably have a recipe for it yourself. But there are some secrets to making the best chicken salad. It must be flavorful and moist....
I am always thinking of recipes to use one of my favorite combinations: chocolate chips melted with peanut butter. The peanut butter mellows out the chocolate, making it extremely mild,...
This fabulous and huge casserole has been in my repertoire for decades. My mom found the original recipe; I don’t know where. It may have been on a pepperoni package,...
As you may have guessed by now, chocolate and peanut butter is my favorite flavor combination. Those two ingredients are just wonderful together. And there are so many ways to...
Chicken sandwiches are so evocative to me. They conjure up pictures of dainty women’s teas, with little sandwiches with the crusts cut off. But chicken sandwiches can range from tiny...
Pasta salads are my mainstay during the hot summer months. I don’t like to grill when it’s hot outside, because I think that standing in front of a 500°F grill...
I have always loved cherries. I wrote about this wonderful stone fruit years ago: Every summer, there are three things I treasure. One is seeing my gardens bloom and thrive as...
