Kidney beans, lentils, and garbanzo beans are stewed with tomatoes and spiced with oregano and pepper. Continue…

A German dish, these are sweet dinner rolls stuffed with ground beef, onion, and cabbage. A great alternative to the Finnish pasty! Continue…

A delicious coconut cake made from a cake mix with coconut cream cheese frosting and garnished with toasted coconut. Read more…

Mangos are truly a global fruit that can be found in markets just about anywhere you may be. Whether you like them sprinkled with salt and lime, as in… Continue…

If you’ve got a set amount of time in the morning to feed yourself and the kids and get everybody out the door on time, breakfast sometimes slips through the… Continue…

The whiteness of these vegetables, as well as that of salsify and cauliflower, is due to the pigment flavone. When this chemical compound is subjected to prolonged heat or alkali, a brownish-yellow tint develops. Several countermeasures can help keep your vegetables white. First and foremost, do not overcook them. Also, buy young, fresh vegetables in good condition. If your pipes carry hard water, try adding a touch of cream of tartar or lemon juice to help neutralize its alkalinity. The more of these acids you add, the whiter your boiled vegetables will be, but do not add so much that the flavor of the whitener becomes undesirably obvious. ** Asian Recipes ** Continue…

Seems like we’ve always enjoyed them, but widespread cultivation of cashews is a twentieth century innovation. Long a favorite in South American, Indian, and Asian cuisines, the rest of the… Continue…