Rolling your own pizza dough is very serious work… It takes concentration. Just right! Nope, I did not reshape it. All his! Edwin’s helping me with mine. i tend to pile on everything until it sags in the middle. His helping me isn’t improving that. Now he’s making his own pizza. He doesn’t quite have [...]

This is a classic easy dish.  Most cultures have some version of it, but good old Creole style is my favorite. Ingredients 1 bag red beans. Small beans are preferred. 1/2 Onion Celery Olive oil Pepper (I used an overgrown banana pepper in this meal, but generally I  just use what’s ripe. Red pepper flakes [...]

Jambalaya is one of those everything in the pantry put in a pot meals. Basically rice, but rice raised to such a level! Ingredients Basmati rice (just my preferred type) (1 cup) Meat (approx 1 cup) I’m using my homemade sausage here. Other classic options are chicken, shrimp, pretty much anything. Onion (1/2) Fresh thyme [...]

So it’s the afternoon, I don’t feel like going to the store and I need to make dinner tonight. My thoughts rest on the instant pizzas in the freezer – no matter which brands I buy they’re always greasy and taste vaguely of cardboard. Emergencies only. So why not have good pizza? You need 2 hours before dinner [...]

I’m starting a dinner of the week column as a good way to add variety in our weekly menu. This will force me to do at least one interesting dinner every week! Ingredients Pasta (I prefer Linguine for this) 1 to 1 1/2 lbs Fish Chunks (They’ll have fish scraps or kabob meat behind the [...]