The Yellow Apron

It's artichoke season again!  Artie didn't get that big this year, but still put out some respectable buds.  It only took a bit of f...

I need to stop going to the Gardena 99 Ranch.  Their bakery section sucks.  There were packaged almond cookies, but no fresh.  And no egg cu...

I was looking for a tiropita (cheese pie) with eggplant in it and found this, which is mostly vegetables with a little cheese. This Greek ca...

It's canning season.  Since I've gotten the canner, I'm in it pretty deep.  Broke it in one day with rum-infused grapes  (same r...

  The day I went shopping for meat for the tamales , there was shredded chicken in the deli.  It was $6/lb.  I get it; you're paying for...

This dish is kind of an inside joke on Quarantine Quitchen.  In Episode 5 , Alton Brown had everything set up, then couldn't find the ki...

Passover ended up being my pea vines' most prolific week.  Sure, the one week of the year I can't have legumes.  I could have picked...

I bought a leek for a second batch of colcannon .  Over a dollar for a single leek.  Sure, it was organic, but that isn't much of an exc...

Since the cookbooks I'm referencing the most these days are about canning and preserving, I decided to change topics. Food prices are go...

Chicken tamales tend to have either a ton of chili powder or green olives in them.  I didn't want either.  What I really wanted to put i...