rustic olive stuffed bread

add chopped green olives to this homey bread recipe " bread", by christine ingram and jennie shapter is one of those cook books i...

corn & haricot-vert salad

after years in the kitchen, i can put together some meals without much thought at all: mexican, italian, indian . . . it's routine to co...

clean out the frig. vegetable soup

this is another one-pot meal that always turns out satisfying and tasty, even though the ingredients are different every time. the base for ...

guacamole

following a post about salsa, one about a companion relish, guacamole, is naturally what comes next. the avocado is an ideal, regal ingredi...

salsa

around the time when jim and i got married in the mid eighties, before we went to mexico, the closest we came to eating mexican food was at ...

sautéed scallops coated with ground walnuts

when jim and i were in the champagne region of france, we learned that the french do not need a special occasion to enjoy a glass of their b...

slow cooked pot of beans

the slow cooker gets used on a weekly basis in my kitchen. i use it most often to make a pot of beans. inexpensive, easy to make, and good f...