Over the last several months I find myself wanting Indian Curry, or any curry for that matter, more often.  My taste for the spicy food started long ago in the late 1980’s when an

The goal was to purchase a 5 pound bag of tart red cherries.  After all, I am in Michigan surrounded by the Lake and fruit orchards.  I knew they would have to be frozen

My Mother grew up just outside of a small town about 50 miles south of Dallas, Texas.  Cotton was King during that time and her Father raised it on the fifty acres he rented.

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

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