There’s so much to love about pasta! It goes with just about anything. It’s inexpensive. It’s a kid favorite. And it’s incredibly quick and easy to cook without the need for a bathtub of water despite what most pasta package cooking directions will suggest. Here are a few quick tips. You can get complete step-by-step picture book directions showing how to cook any shape of pasta by clicking either picture on this page. Read more »
It’s great for parents and kids themselves when kids learn to become independent in the kitchen. This quick & easy kid-friendly to make tuna salad requires only 3 ingredients, 3 pieces of equipment, and no cutting with a knife or even the use of a can opener if you buy cans of tuna with pull-tab tops. For a complete step-by-step picture book recipe, just click either picture on this page. Read more »
Summer’s screamin’ to an end. Kids will be back to school this week. Here’s an easy way to help encourage independence in the kitchen. My then 10-year-old daughter showed me how to make this quick and easy tortilla pizza that kids can make on their own safely for either a snack, lunch or dinner. For complete step-by-step picture book directions just click any picture on this page. Read more »
One of the best things about summer: ripe fresh fruit that explodes with sensational summer sweet flavor. Wow! Here’s a refreshingly cool salad that combines the crisp summer flavors of ripe peach, plum, cherries, blueberries and banana. The salad can be served either as is or with an optional light dressing, as pictured above, made simply with lime juice, plain yogurt and either coconut cream or your favorite jam. For complete, easy to follow step-by-step picture book directions, just click any picture on this page. Read more »
If you’re a tomato fan but never tried a fresh heirloom tomato – and you’re fortunate enough to have them available where you live, just get ‘em! They’re awesome! Read more »
My dear ol’ mom turned 90 August 6th. My mom’s been a lifelong mentor and strong inspiration to me. I’ve had the very fortunate pleasure more than a few times over the years she was an active doctor to catch a glimpse of her treating patients that came to her, usually with very tough diseases. Even as a young kid, I could see how she was always a person first and doctor second by the way she put her patients at ease and treated them as people, not cases. What a privilege to see that kind of real human compassion in action! Read more »
London Summer Olympics – game on! Here’s a summer-cool refreshing bar drink to enjoy while you watch all the incredible athletes do what they do best. As a tribute to the games, this particular daiquiri recipe features Pusser’s British Navy Rum, which is rich with full-bodied cane rum flavor and goes great in my well loved US Navy Screaming Eagles Fighter Squadron 51 drink glass. Yah! Read more »
Here’s a refreshingly flavorful salad that’s a great way to combine the sweet crunch of summer-fresh corn with the snap of bell pepper and zest of onion, garlic, fresh cilantro and, of course, a good splash of one of my favorite ingredients: balsamic vinegar. Read more »
Just as agent 007 “Bond,…James Bond” likes his martinis shaken, not stirred, that’s exactly how we’re gonna’ make this incredibly quick and easy homemade salad dressing that you can see how to make right away by clicking any picture on this page for a step-by-step picture book recipe.
“Knee high by 4th of July.” That’s how tall my good friend Donny at Berberian Farms told me farmers say corn stalks planted in spring should be by early July. But with all the warm weather we’ve had this year, corn stalks are much taller than they should be. That means locally grown early season corn, like the “salt & pepper” corn shown below, is ready for harvest right now. Read more »
September 24th, 2012 
