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Updated. From the recipe archive.
A staple in our home growing up was my mother’s chili beans, which she still makes several times a month with either ground beef or turkey. Many chilis I’ve encountered seem almost designed to give you heartburn. This one isn’t. These chili beans are more mild and [...]

Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord and pour yourself a glass of milk; you’ll need one with these brownies! ~Elise
So I had a bottle of Kahlúa sitting about collecting dust and figured that it needed to be put to decent use. Now, I’m all for a decent cocktail, but really, I try not to make [...]

Now that grilling season is officially upon us, I’ve been experimenting with teriyaki salmon skewers. Last night’s version (frozen salmon, canned pineapple) got two thumbs up from the rents, but there were too many leftovers for me to be convinced. Conditioned for politeness, sometimes they are just not willing to be as critical [...]

Can you tell we are gearing up for grilling season? This has to be one of the simplest chicken recipes for the taste, grilled or otherwise. It’s just basic grilled (or oven broiled) chicken with a fresh mint and honey glaze. Nothing to it really, but it tastes fabulous. This recipe [...]

Looking for a way to spice up a summer barbecue? Try these hamburger patties, seasoned with a homemade Jamaican jerk spice mixture of Scotch bonnet peppers, allspice, thyme, cinnamon, nutmeg, green onions, and garlic. Scotch bonnets, or their habanero cousins, are insanely hot, so you don’t really need much, half a 1 1/2-inch [...]

Nutritional Genomics is the future of nutritional science. In time, we will be able to take the guesswork out of which foods/nutrients will work best for individuals under virtually any circumstance. The GenoType Diet, by Dr. Peter D’adamo, suggests that eating based on our genetic make-up is the key to optimal health, fat [...]

What a heat wave we are having on the coasts! Here’s a curried chicken salad from the archives that cooks up quickly on the stove-top and then is chilled. Spicy but cool. ~Elise
I love this curry chicken salad. I made up this recipe 20 years ago after a friend of mine gave [...]

There are two basic methods to test for how done your meat is while you are cooking it - use a meat thermometer, or press on the meat with your finger tips. The problem with the meat thermometer approach is that when you poke a hole into the meat with a thermometer, it can [...]

Come late May and early June, my mother’s boysenberry vine comes alive with fruit. Boysenberries look like blackberries, but are actually a cross between blackberries, loganberries, and raspberries. As such they fruit much earlier in the season than blackberries, and they are more delicate in touch and taste. As a vine to [...]

After several years of observing the results of my feeble gardening attempts, my next door neighbor Pat (76 and still going strong) graciously responded to my pleas for help and has been guiding me this spring with soil amendments, starter plants, seeds, and all around gardening advice. As a result, here it is early June [...]