Winter recipes with 600 or more calories costing more than $3 per serving

Pecan Pie

Although I commonly make this pie during the holiday season, I sometimes like to bake this pie during other times of the year. It is super decadent,…

Best Turkey Stuffing

This recipe is a combination and adaptation of two great stuffing recipes found in the New Best Recipe cookbook by Cook's Illustrated (one of our…

Buffalo Chicken Rolls

Well, the SuperBowl is a couple of weeks away and it is time to start planning all the snacks for the big game. It seems every year someone wants…

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Yummy recipe, and very appealing to the eye as well with its distinctive red coloring.

Spanish Style Bean Soup

It's Sabado Mexicano and that means it's Saturday around here. It’s a soup kind of day. This one will warm you up with Mexican flavors. It’s hearty,…

Cedar-Plank Salmon

Eurasian Lemon Soup with Chick Peas

This is a wonderfully flavored soup that is good for the first course of a dinner party, or the main meal for a…

carrabbas spicy chicken soup

spicy chicken soup

Spice cake

Spice cake is a great cake to make and serve on its own. However, there are other great things that can be created by using spice cake. For…

Caramel-Nut Corn

Ok, I could be juvenile here by making fun of the word "Nut" here....but, nawww.....that would be CORNY.....ha ha ha....see what I did there?

Creole Crabmeat Pie

While this wonderful recipe is often used as a stuffing for everything from zucchini to fish to chicken and pork, try it iinside your favorite pie…

Grilled Niman Ranch Sirloin Steak with Tapenade, Roasted New Potatoes and Baby Leeks

texas date loaf candy

This is a delicious old-fashioned Texas recipe similar to fudge but is shaped into a log and sliced. I was surprised to learn from a Mexican…

Paella

Well, it has been a long time coming, but I finally am able to post the long awaited Paella article. There is so much to say about Paella that it's…

Banana Bread

This recipe makes 2 banana loaves. One to eat immediately and the other one can be frozen for a later treat.