by Wanda | Aug 21, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Before I tell you how my beef stew experiment came out, a few words about my approach to the dish. As I noted yesterday, my stew is very plain: beef, potatoes, that’s about it. Occasionally, I’ll get fancy and use another starch besides potatoes: chayote...
by Wanda | Aug 20, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
What a week! A family emergency took me into the country where my phone didn’t work much of the time and I had no Internet access. Helping to care for my ill relative left me with plenty of time for reading. But all I had with me were several boxes of books I...
by Wanda | Aug 12, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Your unconscious mind ever play a trick on you that your conscious mind decided to take seriously? It’s happened to me often and it happened again the other day: I saw a recipe title in Southern Living, one of my favorite magazines for easy, practical recipes (with no...
by Wanda | Aug 11, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
You know what I don’t understand…? WHY DO THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP SPAMMING MY WEB SITE WITH LAVISH COMPLIMENTS LACKING ANY DETAIL OR SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO WHAT I’M DOING THINK I’M GOING TO FALL FOR THEIR BLANDISHMENTS AND LINK TO THEIR SITES, POST...
by Wanda | Aug 10, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
APOLOGIES: A family matter kept me from blogging yesterday…here’s what I was working on… Foodies hate bad restaurant service and love to talk about, like soldiers comparing war stories. I heard one the other day from my mother that, when I told another...
by Wanda | Aug 8, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Thoughts that occurred as I was going through my Maui receipts, business cards, menus and scribbled notes: Upcountry with a trio of friends who’ve eaten everywhere on the Valley Isle, Cafe 808 was mentioned. “What do you like there?,” I asked....