Jay loves beef.  Hamburgers, meat loaf, beef stew, prime rib (okay – no argument there), pot roast, tri-tip, whatever.  If it moo’d at some point in its life, that’s probably what he wants for dinner.  Plus, we live in Arizona where most households find that firing up the grill is more frequent than sex.  We > read more

Yesterday, Jay and I celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary. I wanted something special for dinner, something that was a bit of a splurge and something that would go with a beautiful bottle of d’Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz that we had received as a gift. Our usual luxury at home dinner is king > read more

We’re still enjoying our batch of Hatch green chiles, which don’t seem as hot this year as they usually are.  Maybe it was the unusually dry season last year.  But while I was trying to research why they were so mild, I found some interesting facts about chiles:

One fresh medium-sized green chile pod > read more