Food Adventures of a Comfort Cook

If you have a vegetable surplus as summer slides into autumn, check out some delicious options for your dining table. Courtesy photo
Here we are, almost to the end of August and Labor Day begins the month of September. Farmers’ markets are laden with surpluses of homegrown vegetables, or baked goods, jams and jellies. One of our friends dropped off several bags of yellow squash, zucchini and cucumbers which, of course, got me...
Crab-stuffed are a perfect, delicious example of a one-bite hors d’oeuvre that can easily whet your guests’ appetites during a Holiday party this winter.  Mary Cokenour photo
“Crash Goes the Hash”, 1944, featuring Moe, Larry and Curly – aka The Three Stooges. Disguised as servants, the trio infiltrates a party at Mrs. Van Bustle’s residence held in honor of a visiting prince. The Stooges unintentionally disrupt the event by presenting hors d’œuvres that are deemed...
Top off those dogs during the Dog Days of Summer.  Mary Cokenour photo
“Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks, I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root, root, root for the home team, If they don’t win, it’s a shame. For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out, At the old ball game.” Written in 1908 by...
Salisbury steak with egg noodles. Mary Cokenour photo
A classic meal, not just in the United States, but in many other countries, is the hamburger. I am not referring to the minuscule hockey pucks sold at too many fast-food places. I am not referring to the one-inch-thick rounds of seasoned meat, dripping with juices, layered between a bun and topped...
Chicken A La King over toast. Mary Cokenour photo
A number of times I have heard someone refer to my research techniques as being part ferret and part pitbull. I believe I have always been like this, even as a child, being interested in a subject and wanting to know more and more about it. Even now, my bookcases are filled with all kinds of books...
Italian Ice Made with Fresh Fruit and Honey. Mary Cokenour photo
Here we are, the middle of July and the temperatures are on the rise. So, where is that sound that brings out our childhood delight? “What sound?”, you ask. It is the jingle, the jingle played by the Good Humor or Mr. Softee truck. All the kids lining up, at the usual stop, money in hand, to buy...
Exotic foods are readily available online.  Give them a try!  Mary Cokenour photo
Indulging the exotic, what exactly does this mean? Oxford Dictionary defines exotic as, “Originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country.” Encyclopedia Britannica denotes it as, “very different, strange, or unusual”. Well now, depending on where in the world Waldo is, every place and...
Crispy fish and chips makes a great meal. Courtesy photo
July 4, 1776, Independence Day, when the colonists of the New World (America) declared all ties cut from their mother country, Britain. While the residents of this newly established country might have thought, “Well that’s all done with, time for tea and biscuits”, King George had a whole other...
The Bluebird Special at Twin Rocks Cafe in Bluff is one of the many exceptional options for breakfast in the area. Mary Cokenour explores many of these options. Mary Cokenour photo
Traveling in the area is experiencing adventures throughout a living museum. Red rocks, arches, hoodoos, sand dunes, ancient cravings and paintings, mountains, forest, desert, wildlife, and sage brush as far as the eyes can see. That is just the landscape, in general, then there are the small...
The first-meal-of-the-day configuration preferred by most students and workers of every class – the breakfast sandwich.  Mary Cokenour photo
For the past few months Roy and I have been traveling in and around San Juan County in an attempt to find, and dine on, breakfast. Every time I think we’re done, someone will mention another restaurant “you just have to try!” So that article is still in its developmental stage but hopefully will...

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