As Thanksgiving is upon us, thoughts turn to menus for the greatly anticipated feast we will all enjoy next Thursday (you know, the day before Black Friday).  Much of what we decide to include

In a previous post, I mentioned my trip to the grocery store to purchase herbs and spices to make dill pickles.  I chose to shop in the largest grocery store around, an HEB Plus

Not too long ago I shared the Glossary information in Cook Live Learn concerning Beef.  In this post, I want to continue with another informational treatise from the Glossary; this time on Chicken.  It

In my book, “Cook Live Learn”, I included a lengthy Glossary.  The idea is to provide expanded information on all manner of  topics without cluttering up the recipes themselves.  So, if the reader wants

No doubt, I used to be a crock pot snob.  Oh, I had one when I was in college and used it without a clue.  Once I “grew up”, I put it to work

There just is not always time to prepare and make a fresh vegetable.  Other times, what does not look bad in the produce department of your grocer, is super high-priced due to seasonality.  Times

Being from Texas, where everything is BIG, this is an unusual title for me to post.  However, it is true:  Sometimes, smaller is in fact better! A couple of weeks ago, I was in San

We live in a wonderful world of always well-stocked produce departments!  Here it is the first week of March and we can get fresh pineapples from Central America, blueberries from Chile, corn from Mexico

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