Hummus is popular and is a great snack for all occasions and even every day. One of the best things about hummus is the ease of making it at home.... Continue Reading

Having an insider guide to understanding which foods appear into the autumn season, helps change up your recipes by adding some fall goodness. Farmer’s markets and produce departments change in... Continue Reading

Healthy eating takes some work and prepping those meals can take some time. You need to know what you need to know what you are making, get the ingredients, and... Continue Reading

So often we eat tomatoes raw. Some people snack on tomatoes just as they are fresh from the garden. Others slice them up and put them on a sandwich or... Continue Reading

More tomatoes mean more ways to use them that that will brighten up your cooking and bring flavor from the summer into your house year round. Family and Traditions Preserving... Continue Reading

Ethiopian Summer Experiment 7 Coping with Summer Heat   Summer has arrived in Texas, and the heat is not conducive to ambition in the kitchen.  The day may begin in... Continue Reading

Ethiopian Summer Experiment 6 Weekend Cookery: Learning to Trust Myself  Last Saturday, fresh from our successful field trip to Habesha the night before, I got to work on a new... Continue Reading

Ethiopian Summer Experiment 5 Friday Night Field Trip (with postscript: The Revenge of the Inedible Fish) Last Friday night, Charlie and I ventured out to a delightful dinner at Habesha... Continue Reading

Ethiopian Summer Experiment-4 Saturday Night Supper: A Hit and a Miss For our Saturday night dinner I planned a two-course meal; a main dish of fish tibs with fasoulia on... Continue Reading

Ethiopian Summer Experiment-3 Saturday Accidental Delight Today I had planned to try my hand at a tempting yeshiro (chickpea wat), but it was not to be.   I had gone grocery... Continue Reading