Until recently, roasted peppers were not high on my list of fun and exciting ingredients. Something about the smell of jarred peppers just d...

Allow me to introduce you to the one cult that most Minnesotans would unabashedly claim membership to: Chicken and Wild Rice Soup. It is to ...

My new addiction is making fresh ricotta. I love it so much so let me count the ways.   One : It's so easy to make and so gourmet tast...

Eggplant usually divides people into separate camps - love it! hate it! And then there are the fence sitters who will reflexively say the...

"Life happens" is something we say when deadlines get missed and blogs don't post in their usual fashion. Likewise, death happ...

More than 20 years ago I spent a month in Biarritz, France, on the Atlantic coast, home of the best surfing in Europe. My four weeks there w...