I have a confession to make. I am a soup-a-holic. I could eat soup every single day. And the best thing about soup is that you can make it out of pretty much anything you have on hand. I had some left-over enchilada sauce I had made, some fresh salsa and chicken thighs. Then I [...]
I am excited to enter the Kitchen Bootcamp Sauce Challenge with my authentic Mexican salsa recipe for Salsa Verde which is also known as green sauce. This sauce isn’t covered in the Professional Cook but my green sauce recipe is so simple and tasty I’m sure you’ll be making it for your family. It’s similar [...]
Chilaquiles is a Mexican comfort food dish, occasionally even a hangover cure, and sometimes a way to use up leftovers. I LOVE IT! I intentionally chose an soft focus photo because casseroles are inherently out of focus — which is part of their attraction. I posted a recipe for chilaquiles back in April. For that [...]
I have a love-hate relationship with Thanksgiving. I love to cook, I love to entertain and I love to eat. Every year I look forward to Thanksgiving with high anticipation and every year by 4:00 on Thanksgiving day I’m in bed cuddled up with a bottle of wine and a bad attitude saying “I will [...]
The Sauce This post is dedicated to Tony, a great cook and even better friend who shared his mother’s recipe and methods with me. Sauce, Gravy, Spaghetti Sauce, Red Sauce, Marinara call it anything you want, just please don’t buy it in a jar. In fact, please join the Society For the Elimination of Sauce [...]

