As much as I appreciate Texas Red Chili, it’s not what I crave when I’m in the mood for a bowl of chili. The chili I crave is a variation of the chili my father used to make when I was young and even though it’s never won a competition, I’ve...
The goal: A supremely simple yet still sweet and unexpected Valentine’s gift for my wife. The result: Chocolate Peanut Perfection, with a kick from Cajun spices. I don’t usually “do” Valentine’s Day, at least not in the sense of buying...
Peanuts are a part of daily life, at least around this house. They’re consumed as butter, as a recipe addition, as a snack, and pretty much any other way I can come up with to use them. I started working up a recipe for Valentine’s day a little earlier...
A while back my wife and I decided that if we were going to justify storing our cookbook collection, we needed to make at least one recipe from each book every week.It sounded simple enough, and I happily joined her in browsing through Taste of Home magazine’s...
When I heard that my friend Susan, The Well Seasoned Cook was hosting a roundup of legume recipes because she’d seen that it was National Bean Day that morning on “Your Morning Cuppa”, I was not only honored and flattered, but I knew I just had to be...