Food Adventures of a Comfort Cook
In many Italian homes and restaurants, Shrimp Scampi is often served as a main dish or an appetizer, dependent upon whether or not it is served with pasta.
Many think that the term “scampi” describes how the dish is prepared; the shrimp sauteed in a marriage of olive oil, butter, garlic, lemon...
Roy, I, and several members of the San Juan County Economic Development and Visitor Services, were invited to Ja-Roen Thai Sushi Restaurant for a special taste testing.
Their newest sushi chef, Tom, who has seventeen years of experience under his knife belt, introduced us to some of his specialties...
In a kitchen, a long time ago; alright, it was only twelve years ago, but that is a little over a decade.
Roy had been working the oil fields with his cousin, and for the holiday season, they had received a very nice bonus.
While he went off to purchase new video games for his PC, I decided to...
In Germany, David Hasselhoff of “Knight Rider” fame is treated more like a god than just another actor.
However, in Stockholm, Sweden, it is not every restaurant that gets a dish named after it.
The Hasselbacken Hotel (opened in 1748) introduced a new potato dish on its menu in the 1940’s, The...
A mushroom is the spore-bearing body of a fungus which grows in damp, dank soil in shaded areas.
Cultivating your own mushroom crop can be achieved by setting up an area, in the basement, which is kept dark and soil is moist.
However, if you are like myself, and the home has no basement, two...
Waffles, a dish developed during Medieval Times. Pot Pie, a dish originally created by the ancient Greeks, around 500 BCE.
Fried Chicken, a dish around for centuries, cooked up by West African slaves in the south, and that made a Colonel a household name.
Put all three together and the fusion of...
Beans, peas and lentils are branches on the legume family tree, as are peanuts, asparagus beans, soybeans, black-eyed peas and sugar snap peas. Besides being versatile, legumes are high in fiber, protein, B vitamins, iron, copper, magnesium, manganese, zinc, and phosphorous. Naturally low in fat,...
In the United States, October is designated National Apple Month.
Just in case that is not good enough, October 21st is National Apple Day.
Over the many years of writing this food column, I have shared many a recipe revolving around apples.
Pies, cakes, donuts, cider, even as an addition to a main...
Welcome Fall, and the beautiful cool weather it has brought.
Soon, the leaves will be bursting with colors of red, orange, yellow, and gold. Whether driving into the mountains, to be up front and personal, or looking up from down below, the colors are an eye feast.
This is also the time for...
Alright now, where are all the film buffs in the area? We need to travel back to the early 1950s in which a movie created a scandalous affair. Too vague for that era? Stromboli, aka Stromboli, Land of God, is a 1950 Italian-American film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starred Ingrid Bergman...
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