Easy Quiche

I found this recipe on allrecipes.com and was suspicious in a too-good-to-be-true manner, despite the number of five star ratings it had received from users.  I have linked the recipe.
Modifications: used 1% milk, which is what we typically have on hand (other than the half and half for coffee).  I added mushrooms but only [...]

When our friend Richard was visiting last week, he wrote a hilarious little narrative printed on beautiful card stock and gave us each a wrapped can of veggies.  One of the cans contained hominy, which to be honest I have never tried.
Along with this Richard brought a recipe that is in the usual rotation in his house, as [...]

Shattered Lid

A few days before Thanksgiving I bought a couple of additional pans and happened to pick up the Wolfgang Puck brand of 18/10 stainless.  One was a 3 quart saucepan with a tempered glass cover, the other an omelet pan with no cover.
The very first time I used the saucepan I simply cooked some potatoes in [...]

Romanesco Cauliflower

This past weekend we tried Romanesco cauliflower for the first time.  Julia and Guy – Llewellyn’s sister and her husband – drove north for a visit and picked it up en route.  It is a odd looking vegetable and quite interesting to look at — we enjoyed the fractal design element of it.  As it turns out Romanesco is [...]