
All y’all know how much I love soup. Really love soup. And as the weather turns just cool enough for me to contemplate warm soups…

I toyed with the title of this post a little because I was trying to figure out how much information to include in the title….

As the summer draws to a close (where did it go???), I’m always faced with the late-summer farmer’s market bounty of tomatoes and zucchini. And…

I had the best intentions of following up the last post with some new recipes–I had a few that I’d already made ready to post,…

My mom has been visiting this week, and we’ve done some good cooking together. We love to make quesadillas (recipe later this week, I promise!)…

On Tuesday, I promised you a recipe using my Tex-Mex black beans. Bet you thought you’d get a recipe for enchiladas or something, right? It’s…

Being from Texas, anything labeled “Tex-Mex” automatically makes me a little suspicious. Since moving north thirteen years ago, I’ve had a lot of things that…

4th of July weekend, a couple of my dear friends came in from out of town and we got to see each other and hang…

As you probably noticed, I’m obsessed with lemon, especially this time of year. And with a heat wave hitting NYC last week, my appetite disappeared…

Growing up in the South (which one of my friends informed me is incorrect; according to her, Texas is part of the West, not part…