Let me confess up front that I am new to paella and that the sum total of my knowledge comes from the two books on Spanish cooking in my collection: Delicioso!, by Penelope Casas, and My Kitchen in Spain, by Janet Mendel. Paella is a dish I have always wanted to become more familiar with […]
Last week I wanted to make something with pumpkin in our “food appreciation” classes to coincide with Halloween. But wouldn’t know there wasn’t a single pumpkin to be found in the local stores. We’d heard stories that the pumpkin harvest was going to be light this year because of the drought that hit this part […]
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Sometimes simple tools are the best, and I find that the simpler they are, the more I use them. Usually, I’d rather mash something up in my molcajete than go through the trouble of heaving my cuisinart out of its place in the kitchen cabinet, then disassembling it and cleaning all the parts, only to […]
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