From the category archives:

Pasta & Pizza

Mushroom, Basil and Goat Cheese Lasagna Roll-Ups

There’s this thing out there called Wordless Wednesday. I think food bloggers tire of writing posts, but have some nice food photos to share, so they use Wednesday to get caught up. I like the idea. So, consider this an Almost Wordless Wednesday post. I created this Mushroom, Basil and Goat Cheese Lasagna Roll-Ups for [...]

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Farfalle with Mushroom and Prosciutto Ragu

The Mushroom Channel is a cooking and info blog produced by the “mushroom council” marketing group. Practically every agriculture product in the U.S. has an organized committee such as this, and in my oh-so-long career, I’ve worked for plenty. Frankly, they’re very helpful. I mean, who else knows more about mushrooms than the growers? If [...]

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Lemon and Goat Cheese Pasta

Here is last night’s dinner — an adaptation of the easiest recipe imaginable penned by friend Erika of In Erika’s Kitchen. Her Meyer Lemon Spaghetti with Goat Cheese spoke to me. And I hadn’t planned on photographing the meal; I was just interested in eating it. But Larry said, “no, shoot it.” Wayadaminnit, that’s strange… [...]

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How to Cook Thai Rice Sticks

This cooking class at Let’s Get Cookin’ in Westlake Village was great fun — presented by prolific cookbook author, Hugh Carpenter, we foodies were immersed in Thai recipes, always good eats. Hugh’s dry sense of humor kept us in stitches while we soaked up cooking techniques that are quite useful. Cooking rice sticks, for starters.

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Patti’s Noodle Bowl for Two

Another name for the recipe could be, “What’s in the produce bin that needs eating NOW?” With a teensy bit of leftover meat, Asian-ish veggies and some noodles, Noodle Bowl is served. One challenge to this dish is ~ it makes you sweat. Not spicy sweat, but steamy sweat. Great for winter, but we eat [...]

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Larry’s Pesto Pizza

This is another installment in my series, “Hands Off, Ladies, He’s Mine.” Larry made dinner again recently and decided to create a spin-off of his most excellent pizza. If you are skilled at making homemade pizza, then you can become comfortable playing with it. Larry does this on occasion, deciding fun toppings and layouts. This [...]

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Bacon Macaroni and Cheese

Bacon, bacon, bacon. It’s not something that is always in the fridge here, and when it is, it takes several recipes to use it up. Frankly, I’d love to consume multiple strips each morning; guilt overrides that. What to cook with some el tocino? Four slices are needed for Bacon Mac N’ Cheese. If ever [...]

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Thai Pasta with Chicken or Turkey

In anticipation of turkey leftovers, friends… Larry and I both work from home offices so we share a good number of meals together. For my lunch today, I dibbed leftovers of this Thai Pasta with Chicken while we were still eating it for dinner last night. We were in Thailand a few years ago and [...]

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Larry’s Excellent Pizza

Have you seen the foodie blog, Hungry Hungry Hippie? Blogger Elise’s mom is my cousin, Melinda. I noticed this week that HHH was being written by middle sis, Laura – that’s how I discovered their ENTIRE family is vacationing in Hawaii, ‘cept Laura! What a good sister – and turns out, a good blogger. I [...]

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Tuscan Chicken Pallard over Fettuccine

There was this handsome, bald guy on TV making dinner with ingredients I already had (minus arugula). I’d never seen him before (and I love TV). His show was A Lyon In The Kitchen on the Discovery Health Channel and now I know his name is Nathan Lyon. A recipe like this is one of [...]

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Penne with Bacon Gravy

Whoa baby, if you like a hearty belly-ful of pasta and flavor, use bacon AND whole wheat penne. You won’t be hungry for days. It is still June Gloom weather outside here and I haven’t lightened up my cooking yet for the next season. We have a lot of dried pasta variations in the pantry, [...]

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President Reagan’s Macaroni and Cheese

Mac ‘n Cheese has recently become a signature family dish, thanks to my sister-in-law, Lynne (who I call “Sissy”). Last Thanksgiving, she brought a whopping slab of it to my sister Gretchen’s big feast; Sissy apparently made way too much for another need and this one was a spare. (Imagine… a SPARE mac ‘n cheese!) [...]

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Funeral Soup

My grammar school friend, Val, lost her mom to cancer and the service was held at Holy Cross Cemetery, where my father-in-law is also buried. Being there made me think about the circumstances of his death, and my pot of Funeral Soup. This is a meatless version, but after I photographed it, leftover Turkey Meatloaf [...]

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