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3-Get Vegetable Friendly, 6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty

Green Salad with Chicken plus Fresh Fruit and Herb Dressing Think you can’t cook?  This recipe’s great flavor comes not from fancy cooking skills but simply from good ingredients.  Stellar ingredients make a cook’s life easy!  So be sure to read the...

The “Good to Better Cooking Continuum” at 11,000 Feet

5-New Kitchen Thinking, 6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Opinion and Editorial, Uncategorized

You’d think cooking might fall off the priority scale in a bare bones hut, at 11,400 feet above sea level, in the middle of winter.  Actually, cooking, meals  and food conversation were a good 50 percent of the fun on a recent altitude adventure.  In fact, it...

Using Herbs and Spices: More on Flavor Families

Food, Herbs & Spices, New Ingredients

This multiple-entry post on herbs and spices was sparked by Julee Rosso’s recipe for Beef Stew with Eggplant (Great Good Food, p. 487).  Its unusual combination of spices ignited an entire exploration into using herbs and spices more often and more creatively. On the...

Comfort Stew: Beef Daube Provencal

6 Healthy Cooking Building Blocks, 7-Recipes--Healthy and Tasty, Building Block Techniques, Herbs & Spices, Uncategorized

Recipe for Beef Daube Provencal This is the slow cooker version.  See the notes below if you prefer to make it stovetop, as I did. What to have with this stew?  I was hankering for mashed potatoes, which is why I cooked the stew on the stovetop.  That freed up the...

Herb and Spice Resources—A Beginning List

Herbs & Spices, Resources--Buying & Info, Uncategorized

Over the week of this posting, a couple of resources have come to my attention that might be helpful for an herb and spice adventure. In particular, these sites have recipes that are indexed by spice, making it easy to find new uses for those herbs and spices on your...

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