It feels like 100° outside today but I’m making chowder anyway!
I know I said before that I make soup no matter how hot it is here in Texas. I decided a long time ago that I couldn’t wait for snow on the patio to make a big pot of soup. Well, we had a cold [...]

Remember that banana pudding your grandmother use to make that was piled high with meringue and browned in the oven?
I remember my mother and grandmother making homemade banana pudding. I remember the smooth custard that they made from scratch. NO instant vanilla pudding and no whipped cream on top. Instead their banana pudding had that [...]

If you don’t know Mimi’s Sticky Chicken, you need to get acquainted.
If you google “Mimi’s Sticky Chicken” you will come up with 21,000 results.  I came across this recipe probably about ten years ago. I never knew who Mimi was, I just knew I loved the recipe. If you haven’t come across the recipe in your [...]

I love anything made with pasta and these little tidbits make a fun appetizer.
 

 
I didn’t make this rigatoni pasta (I used one I bought in the store). I did make the filling and fill the pasta. BUT tomorrow I am teaching a technique class at Williams Sonoma, demonstrating our KA pasta press. I took our demo [...]

Fall is here and you may be seeing pumpkins pop up all over the fields and markets. Ever think of pairing pumpkins and tomatoes to make a delicious soup?

Doesn’t this picture just make you want to grab your kids and take them out to a pumpkin patch? Hey, it’s the first of October and I [...]