This recipe is for “ready to eat” or “fully cooked” hams—not fresh hams. Try to buy hams that have been minimally processed, preferably, bone-in and unsliced with a nice cap of fat.

This is a breakfast fit for a King, I mean husband. Serve my wonderful daughter breakfast in bed. She woke up happy. Adapted from Robert Quarry’s recipe book “Simply Wonderful Recipes for Wonderfully Simple Foods”. Dennis came across a few...

Recipe (Modified from a recipe in Gourmet, 1997)

Daughter Denny made Very Cherry Cherry Vanilla for the Ventura County Fair. Congratulations on the “Honorable Mention” Award! Very proud of you my baby!

Wow, this is good. This is Tom Keller’s recipe for Creamed Corn from his Ad Hoc Cookbook. The base taste is lime chiffon with sweet corn. This is a keeper recipe.

I was telling someone the other day that I hadn’t found a tapenade that I loved. I happen to love olives, but tapenade from the store has been left many a month in my refrigerator. Just don’t like it. That is until I was browsing the internet and...

This recipe is from Ina Garten.

Roasted Tomato and Sweet Peppers with Garbanzo Beans and Rosemary

A small place out on silver strand beach sold fish tacos and I had them about 25 years ago. They weren’t very fashionable back then, but they have gotten to be more and more so. Most places you get your choice grilled or breaded.

Grilled is...

Creme Anglaise (the base of vanilla ice cream) is the French translation for custard sauce. There are two types of custard; cooked (stirred) and baked. The difference being that ‘baked’ custards contain whole eggs and are cooked ‘in’ a water bath...