What to do about cooking and eating if you’re left on your own for a while (or longer)? Cooking for one can seem like a huge chore, a pointless exercise, and many fall (with varying degrees of... Read more >>

My husband and I love having our date nights at home. In fact, until recently almost all of our date nights have been at home since our second child was born four years ago. We treasure our time... Read more >>

Just as recess was my favorite time during school, the one-hour lunch period I’m granted during the nine-to-five is what I look forward to most. And the one thing that’s guaranteed to dampen my… Read more >>

This recipe comes from April ’08 Food and Wine Magazine. This is a simple and quick salad to put together that is also very nutritional. The buttery beans are counterbalanced by the crunchiness... Read more >>

Ingredients: 500 grams potatoes, boiled and diced 1 cup fresh asparagus, cut into one-inch sticks and blanched 1 cup canned button mushrooms, quartered 1 cup canned young corn, cut into... Read more >>

Ingredients: 1/4 cup butter or margarine 1 kilo shrimps, shelled and deveined 1 can Alaska Evaporated Filled Milk (370 milliliters) 2 tablespoons garlic 1 cup chopped onion 5 cups water 2... Read more >>

Be on the lookout for the new kids in town: Totten Inlet Virginicas. I like to refer to them as the “Hottentot” oysters, because eating one of these is akin to taking a creamy bite out of a can-can… Read more >>

According to experts such as Oprah’s Debt Diet Guru and “Dining on a Dime,” a typical family should plan for approximately $150 per child and $200 per adult. For my family, this... Read more >>

So much green garlic at the farmer’s market yesterday in Santa Cruz; everyone was tripping over them. I couldn’t help but buy some. I also bought some fat Shitake mushrooms and plump local... Read more >>

Question: I’m vegan and he’s not. Is there hope for our relationship? Answer: Love is a mysterious thing. Sometimes it’s a case of “birds of a feather flocking... Read more >>