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,…
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the movie Annie. I watched it so many times that I can still quote every line…
As I mentioned, my mom was in town last week and we did some cooking together. Since my mom was my first teacher when it…
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…
You know how sometimes you get into the mode of create-create-create, and forget your tried-and-trues? Maybe that’s just me. In any case, from time to…
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…