At present I am in Boquete, Republic of Panama.  While Panama has a coast on the Pacific Ocean and another on the Carribean, running through the center of the country is a volcanic activity-formed

You might think that making a stuffed Chicago-style pizza would be akin to taking on an all day sucker!  Not so.  I just made one last night and all together I spent about 20

Kelly Clarkson.  She is one of my favorites … what a tremendous talent!  In her song “Mr. Know It All”, the lyrics portray a woman fed up with her man because the way he

Usually I won’t offer you a “Quick” recipe.  However, given that this is a bread and I know that not all of you are going to make bread from scratch, I thought this would

Do you love Macaroni and Cheese?  I do, it’s perhaps the greatest of all comfort foods.  There’s so many different recipes for the stuff, it would be silly to claim the discovery of a

When I was 16 years old and in high school in Texas, I was on the football team.  Playing football was’t really my passion, but, doing so seemed to be a requirement for social

My wife and I  are building a house in the mountains outside of Boquete, Panama, near the Costa Rican border.  One might think that most  native Central American recipes would be spicy or well-seasoned.

I‘m in San Antonio visiting our oldest daughter and granddaughters.  There’s some fabulous food here!  Last night I decided to cook dinner … using the ingredients that happened to be in the refrigerator and

Recently, my wife and I spent about six weeks in a hotel … without a kitchen.  We had sold our home in the Charlotte, North Carolina area, and were working to get our affairs