My family loves Mexican food. Being so close to the border we have many great Mexican restaurants to choose from. However, one dish I feel I make better than almost any restaurant is my Mexican Pork Stew, better known as Chili Verde. It is with some reluctance that I present my Chili Verde recipe. Go…
Blue Sky Ecological Reserve is a 700-acre canyon in the city of Poway. It is a great place to see many of San Diego’s native plants. For the past couple of years I have given guided tours to my sons Boy Scouts troop. This is my guide to the plants of Blue Sky Ecological Reserve….
I love seafood. My family has a long history in the California tuna industry. Unfortunately, my husband is not so fond of seafood so I don’t get to cook it as much as I would like. Thank goodness my kids like fish. This Lemon Glazed Salmon Recipe, is a huge hit with the kids and…
When Dave makes his pork carnitas for parties we often have a couple pounds of leftover meat. One of our favorite uses for this leftover carnitas is to make taquitos the next day. This is extremely easy and the recipe can also be used for shredded beef or chicken. However, most of the time we…
One of my favorite side dishes of all-time is the red cabbage my aunt made. She would make this for us on holidays like Christmas and Easter. It goes great with any meat, especially Easter ham. However, I realized this was a German dish so when Dave started making his own sauerbraten (a German pot…
Way back in 2003, we got one of my favorite cookbooks of all-time, David Rosengarten’s It’s All American Food. I discuss this book in my post on top cookbooks. This was the cookbook that inspired to Dave to cook sauerbraten which he has developed into his own recipe. As a side dish, Rosengarten suggest spaetzle…
Welcome to part 2 of my guide to my all-time favorite cookbooks. In these two posts I share some of most cherished cookbooks. If you haven’t done so all ready make sure to check out the first post. At the end of that post, I talked about some of my favorite international cookbooks. The cookbooks…
Cooking has been a passion of mine since childhood. One of my favorite hobbies is collecting cookbooks. Over the years I have built a collection of hundreds of cookbooks. I thought in this post I would share some of my favorite and most cherished cookbooks. So welcome to part 1 of the guide to my…