From the :Cooking Light: Way to Cook" Cookbook ...more

December 10, 2009

Flavor combinations that are unbelievable. ...more

April 29, 2009

Earlier this month, Carl E. Stachowski of Sun City Center was looking for a Golden Goodie Bars recipe that uses Bisquick mix, dark brown sugar and coconut flakes in a 9-by-13 baking pan. The cookies are cut into squares after cooling, and then coated with powdered sugar. ...more

March 29, 2009

It's almost impossible to discuss the new Datz Deli without invoking the familiar old trope, "It's just crazy enough to work." ...more

February 26, 2009

The ebony-blue, bursty blackberry fruit was just too pretty to pass up at the market the other day, so I picked up two pints: one for breakfast (plain yogurt with a generous drizzle of honey and then topped with the berries) and the other pint to experiment with. I was thinking: Sauce. Brandy. Salmon. ...more

August 20, 2008

I am always in the mood for a good steak right off the grill. However, if you've looked at the butcher's case in your favorite supermarket, you see where the price of beef is headed. ...more

June 25, 2008

It was just before sunrise when the folks from the woodland town of Palmhaven began arriving at Clearwater Creek for a weekend of country fun. The annual Palmhaven Creekside Holiday was finally under way as the campground area under the oak trees and cabbage palms was filling up with tents of every size and shape. Some lean-to's were being constructed while campers and old Airstreams were rolled into place and everyone busied themselves with setting up and settling in for an extended stay. With no hurricanes approaching and the early summer swarms of mosquitoes subsided, Mayor Ormond Hoosegow declared this weekend the official start of the town's jubilee and no one was left out or behind. ...more

September 2, 2007