Monthly Archives: March 2009

Cookbook temptations

Cookbook temptations
If I go: I buy cookbooks. If I go, my wallet will be a smidgen lighter. We have a great Half Price Bookstore near us; it is heavily visited, so the turnover of books is impressive. If I were to say… go there every other week, I would find… [more]

Tex Mex Cuisine

Tex Mex Cuisine
I took a class called American Cuisine. Each week we would focus on a different region of America, to familiarize ourselves with its flavors, historical influences and topography, and  how they informed the table tops in this part of the country. One week was all about Tex Mex. Texas is… [more]

Cookies with a kiss

Cookies with a kiss
Remember these cookies? I had them when I was a kid: peanut butter cookies with a Hershey’s kiss. They were a treat, and the more chocolate to peanut butter cookie the better… and they were BEST just out of the oven, while the chocolate was still gooey. I don’t… [more]