Category: Main ingredient

As is the case with meat or poultry, cooking fish whole and on the bone adds flavor.  Here’s how to fillet it easily once it...

Here in Switzerland, I have discovered a delicious cold beef salad dish called Siedfleischsalat or “stewed meat” salad. Siedfleisch translates roughly as “stewing meat” or “simmering...

It’s grilling season. In case you’re like me and are trying to avoid all of the extra sugar, corn syrup, other unhealthy stuff in commercial...

In season now! All the fresh, juicy tomatoes and ripe, luscious avocados inspired this yummy, Mexican-influenced summer salad.  I can’t stop eating this. It’s so...

I have an ongoing breakfast dilemma. First of all, it’s hard for me to get started in the morning. I am a slow waker-upper. Also,...

Early on in our marriage, my husband and I took a trip to Naxos, Greece. All of the food we ate during that trip was...

I generally don’t think of pulling out my slow cooker in the spring and summer, but actually it makes a lot of sense. The slow...

Cabbage doesn’t make it into the top three of my “favorite vegetables” list.  Or the top ten. In fact, it probably doesn’t even appear on...

Legend has it that the “Joe’s Special” was invented late one night at a Joe‘s Restaurant  in San Francisco. A hungry musician ordered a spinach...

Despite the unseasonably cold temperatures, I decided to  grill a boneless, skinless turkey breast. I have never done that before, and I didn’t want it...