Archive for September, 2010

This is one of the easiest dessert recipes out there, and it produces a decadent, crowd-pleasing dish every time I make it. Chocolate bread pudding has become a signature dish, one that friends request over and over. It was inspired by a recipe I read in Sunset Magazine, but I have tweaked it over the […]


I love green chili. Not soup, but more like a sauce. Actually, I’m obsessed with it. It is my preferred accompaniment to eggs, burritos, tacos, potatoes, whatever! It is rich (without being creamy) and savory. It is spicy. I love it! I have only really encountered green chili in the mountain west and the southwest. […]


I’ve been making this recipe for friends for years. To me, there is nothing that says summer more than strawberry shortcake. I grew up with strawberry shortcake at family bbqs, summer dinners at grandma and grandpa’s or when I successfully lobbied my mom at the grocery store on those days when they had the towering […]