The Yellow Apron

As I was driving up to Ventura, Melinda Lee was talking about fig season.  Before I came home, I had to stop at a roadside stand and buy so...

I bought too much milk again. This particular entry is devoted to the pancake part of crepes.  I'll give you some filling suggestions,...

Candied nuts make great accents for salads.  They aren't bad to snack on, either.  All the ones at Sprouts were heavily salted, so I dec...

I'm constantly surprised by how many comfort foods I haven't gotten around to making yet.  On the first rainy day of the fall, I dec...

I don't like when people ask me for recipes like chicken salad.  Most of the time, I just had leftover chicken that I put other leftover...

This sounds like some fun fantasy story.  It is not.  Stephen King could make his next best-seller with this title. Remember way back in M...

I bought some bacon trimmings because they were cheap.  I thought I'd make bread or scones with them.  Then I got an idea to put them in...

I went into this intending to make the South Indian Lentil Cakes with Raita out of this month's Bon Appetit.     Then I took out the ja...

This yogurt-cucumber sauce is a creamy accompaniment for anything heavily seasoned.  Jerk meat, gyros, blackened fish , or even seasoned veg...

Let's be clear.  This doesn't taste like a tamale.  It's fancy taco filling with a cornmeal crust.  This Tex-Mex tradition is ba...