Trout, Tilapia, snapper or even grouper can become imperial.     I love taking cooking classes and the time we spent at the New Orleans Cooking Experience in New Orleans was the highlight of the trip for me and my daughter; and Chiqui Collier was our instructor for the day. This trip was a couple [...]

I can just see those little crabs crawling around.     When I was laying around one day recuperating the knee I was thinking of what I could make for a quick, easy and summery dinner; crab was the first thing I thought of. The second thing that came to mind were my BOYS and [...]

Another fish dish from our Hawaiian Feast.   Juicy, delicious, succulent scallops.   Everyone has friends, but do you have a “foodie friend”? A foodie friend is a friend who loves anything to do with food as much as you do, loves cooking shows, cookbooks, loves to food shop and can make up a recipe [...]

Two dishes from the newlyweds! While in Kauai we first discovered poke (pronounced  “po-keh”) at the Hanalei Dolphin restaurant in Hanalei Bay. Poke means to “to slice or cut” and is a popular appetizer or snack throughout the islands. I renamed the dish “deconstructed sushi” as it is essentially all of the familiar sushi ingredients: raw, fresh [...]

What’s in that taco? 40 years ago, even 20 years ago I would not have imagined I would be eating a taco with fish in it. After all, isn’t a taco suppose to be made of greasy flavored hamburger meat that drips down your elbow when you eat it and the shell cracks and spills [...]