Recipe Blog Posts

We stare at the papayas in the grocery store and don’t know what to do with them!

This salad uses two in-season, hot summer, garden staples: zucchini and basil. It’s a recipe for when you’re tired of the basic dinner salad.

You’ve already heard of tortilla pinwheels with cream cheese, ham, and cheddar. This is the “Sheila” version, but with a Mediterranean twist.

Most of us here in the USA are grilling some sort of meats for the July 4th long weekend, whether it’s fish, kabobs, ribs, steaks, or burgers.

The Texas summer thermometer is ooching up there into the 100s for afternoon highs. I don’t want to heat up the kitchen and cook, so Caprese salad is a favorite solution and it takes advantage of tomatoes and basil at their peak of freshness.

Fattoush is the quintessential Lebanese summer salad of fresh herbs, greens, cucumber , tomatoes, onions, and radishes topped with toasted crunchy pita bread croutons. My mouth is watering and the back of my tongues is tingling just thinking about it!

I have a dilemma; only a few friends are interested in taking some fresh herbs when they come by for a visit. I would be glad to take some, but I don’t know how to cook with them! Could you please put some easy guidelines and recipes on your blog about cooking with fresh herbs?”

It’s warming up outside and I don’t feel like turning the oven on to bake cookies. But the grands are coming over and they’ll be expecting a treat!