The key to a perfect picnic is the food – fun to eat and easy to make. The perfect Labor Day picnic for my family consists of barbecued chicken, potato salad, green bean salad, lemonade, and brownies. One thing that is guaranteed not to make a picnic fun, however, is if you are worried about ...
Dean Fearing the previous chef at the Mansion on Turtle Creek recently opened what is sure to be the place to go this fall. Fearing’s located inside the new Ritz-Carlton is the opened for business now much to the delight of Dallasites. If you ever dined at the Mansion on Turtle Creek you know what ...
There are many attractions to see and experience both in and around the Seattle area and a visit to Tillicum Village is at the top of the list. Tillicum Village is located on Blake Island in the middle of the Puget Sound. Blake Island is 475 acres of land mass with five miles of beach ...
Lentils look easy to cook, and that is probably the problem with lentils. It’s is easy to forget to sort the lentils, rinse the lentils, as well as to cook the lentils slowly. So far, I have been lucky with these three basic things about lentils, and have not allowed dirt or grime or pebbles ...
My favorite holiday recipe is one that’s actually very simple to prepare – most of the ingredients come straight out of a can. Over the years I’ve “freshened” the salad a bit to keep it in line with my family’s more modern taste preferences, but the Garbanzo Bean Salad I serve each Thanksgiving is still ...
Tabouleh I first had tabouleh at a cafe in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, some twenty years ago. The place was run by a couple of hippies struggling to raise a young family. It was a tiny storefront, squeezed into the boardwalk amongst the bigger pubs, the pool hall, and a dozen other more prosperous businesses. ...
