In getting my kids to eat more vegetables I came up with a simple salad of cooked and chilled blue lake green beans. Beans are good with any...

It might as well be summer with absolutely flawless weather, its sunny and warm with rain as only a distant memory. Today I took my two gir...

I made a big batch of fresh pasta sheets for a lasagna that my kids are going to have for dinner, I took some of the extra sheets and cut t...

Farmers markets are loaded with beautiful spring produce right now and many of the stalls have big bins of fava beans, artichokes and aspar...

I have a special dinner coming up in a few months and I wanted to try out some Sea Bass ideas. This Sea Bass is known as Mexican bass, in a ...

Its six AM and the first hour of work in the kitchen is the most peaceful, everything has been cleaned and put back in its place the night ...

I had this idea for a vegetarian dish borrowing some of my favorite Mediterranean flavors from Italy and Greece. To assemble, I first slice...

Posole is one of my favorite Latin soups, it has layers of flavor and different textures from all the different ingredients. It can be made ...

Oyster Mushroom Risotto Spring has finally arrived here and the weather is dry and getting warmer, I wanted to make a winter style risotto ...

I had this style of pizza at Cucina restaurant & Wine bar in San Anselmo, California and it was so good that I had to recreate it at ho...

While I was making chicken tamales the other day, I had the idea to make a very small one to serve as maybe a first course, I discovered mi...

Assembling the Tamale Steaming Tamales Chicken Tamale with Green Salsa My kids gave me the idea of making tamales and it was a great idea, ...

While putting in a full day of sailing around San Francisco bay, you can get pretty hungry. With a propane gas grill mounted on the back of ...

Its not often that you will find "fresh head" on prawns, most seafood that is sold has been cleaned with there heads removed. I li...

I made a little snack of roasted Yukon gold potatoes with a filled of garlic sauteed mushrooms. I served them on a bed of hot rock salt, the...