Savoring the Americas
Keeping recipes easy is not that easy. I mean, you have to have the right ingredients on hand, and then it makes the whole dish seem effortless. So, here is my biggest recommendation when it comes to kitchen time: decide if you will be spending Real Time in the kitchen, or Zen Time. Describing Real Time is easy - Simply put, it's life. Quick, in the moment, freaking out, timing, burning, laughing, washing, running out the door, cleaning spills...I think you have the picture. It's chaos, and ...
There are times that I need to slow down in the kitchen. Sometimes I cook too fast, and photograph too quickly because I want to sit down and eat the fruits of my labor. Sigh. So, that leads to errors when I am coming up with new recipes and posts. We have sincere tonnage of grapefruit on the trees right now, but a few weeks ago, we had even more. I was plucking fat, juicy grapefruit off of the tree as quickly as I could, scratching the sides of my pick-up as I drove down the ...
Biscuits are not been my favorite, although my husband really loves them. He will whip up a batch at the drop of a hat and freeze them for later toasting. We have a bad habit of toasting inappropriate breads in the toaster. Things that get stuck, like biscuits. Or hot dog buns. Inevitably, we have…
Now that I finished writing my series about living on the border, I’m in an awkward transition. Apparently, people want to read about where I live. Yet, this is a food blog. In my first post, I mentioned that I probably wouldn’t writing about border life again, but now that the cat is out of…
Pickled Quail is really one of my very favorite recipes. Oh sure, I probably say that about most of my recipes, but this is one of my favorite-ist. I’m defying the laws of the English language to tell you how much I like this one. It does take some time to prepare, although the techniques…
