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This has long been a favorite in our house. The pepper becomes fairly mild with cooking. Serving it tonight with steamed asparagus, some crusty roasted garlic bread from La Brea Bakery, and a very nice 2007 Navarro Première ReserveChardonnay (I highly recommend just about anything from...

Made this for dessert tonight. Excellent! As it bakes, it divides into a layer of cake on top of a layer of lemon pudding. Margaret Atwood's Baked Lemon Custard Recipe at Epicurious.com

I received this e-mail today and thought I should share it with my fellow pepper nuts. I've been dealing with www.Pepper-Passion.com for several years and I very highly recommend them for all things pepper: Okay this will be short and to the point for our Pepper-Passion registered...

I found this recipe when going through some old computer files from 1996. I have no idea where I got it, but I remember that it's VERY GOOD! It calls for ziti, but penne would work well, too, or mostaccioli, etc. -- any thick, tubular pasta. A printable copy is attached. ZITI WITH PORTOBELLO...

Watch this incredible Japanese illusionist/street magician, a young guy who disguises himself as an elderly man. It's all in Japanese, but that doesn't matter at all. http://images2.jokaroo.net/videos/grandpajapan.wmv

Mark Bittman has a nice article in the New York Times on simple summer salads: Recipes for 101 Simple Summer Salads

Delicious and idiot-proof! Coconut Pecan Torte 1 12-ounce box Nabisco Nilla Waffers cookies 1 cup butter 6 eggs ½ cup milk 2 cups white sugar 1 7-ounce can or bag of flaked sweetened coconut 1 cup chopped pecans 1. Preheat oven to 325; grease and flour one 12-cup Bundt pan. 2. Put...

Happy Bastille Day! Vive La France! La Marseillaise To celebrate, we're having a nice Bordeaux with our grilled pork chops tonight.

I don't like seeds in the lemon wedges I serve with food or drinks, so I usually stand over the sink picking them out of each wedge with a knife. Some lemons seem to have no seeds at all, and others, like the one I just finished deseeding (disseeding? unseeding?) seem to have an infinite...

This is our family favorite, probably the first recipe my daughter asked for one she was on her own (yes, I confess -- I do use canned Cream of Mushroom soup now and then): TUNA TETRAZZINI 6 ounces spaghetti 1 10½-ounce can condensed cream of mushroom soup 2 tablespoons butter 1 small onion...

Trader Joe's Distinqt Reposado Tequila, $19.99. Very good stuff for the price, especially if you just intend to use it in margaritas.

There's a full-page ad on the back page of today's Los Angeles Times' Food Section that includes two great coupons: $25.00 rebate on 6 bottles of wine or 8-packs or larger of beer $25.00 rebate on 6 bottles of booze. The coupons apply only to certain brands: Beer & Wine: Sterling...

Russ Parsons, the L.A. Times food columnist, has a great column in today's food section: Organic Label Doesn't Guarantee Quality or Taste

Korin in NYC is one of the top kitchen knife stores in the country. They specialize in Japanese kitchen knives and carry most of the top brands and have both Western and traditional Japanese styles. These knifes are definitely not cheap, but if you're interested, right how through July 31...

I don't usually make things like this or post such recipes, but this turned out better than I expected. It's sort of a stove-top lasagna, based on an old recipe from Sunset Magazine that DW dug out of our extensive collection of clippings. I suspect it's from the 1970s. Very easy, something kids...

This ain't good: A 'Time Bomb" for World Wheat Crop Also here: Billions at Risk from Wheat Super-Blight

Made this for dinner last night. Hadn't made it for a few years and had forgotten how good it is. Shrimp Sauce Piquant is a classic Cajun dish, although there are as many versions of it as there are Cajuns. This recipe includes both a simple roux (very Cajun) and Cajun-style mirepoix (onion...

The substantial danger of food poisoning from reheated rice -- or from rice that has been allowed to sit unheated for a significant time -- is not widely known. Here's some important information from the British Food Standards Agency: I've heard that...

The Los Angeles Times has always had an interesting weekly Food Section. They now have a page devoted to recipes from their test kitchen: CLICK ME

The recipe for this wonderful cake is commonly available on the Internet as it was judged "Best of Class" in the Pies & Desserts of the 1964 Pillsbury Bake-Off. A printable copy of the recipe is attached.

This sweet story from the Los Angeles Times is well worth reading. It concerns the heartbreak felt by an elderly Korean couple over the loss of their cow, which had served them on their small farm for 40 years. Their story has been made into a movie called The Sound of the Cow's Bell.

At five minutes and six seconds after 4:00 a.m. on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be 04:05:06 07/08/09. OMG! This will not happen again for 1000 years. OMG! OMG! Run and hide!

Anyone remember the old Cajun guy who added about a quart of wine to everything he made? He was a hoot!

This is one of our favorite one-dish meals when asparagus is in season. I just use a couple of cans of Swanson's Natural Goodness chicken broth, which is very good, if not quite up to homemade. Risotto is easier than most people think, especially if you use a non-stick pot, which reduces the...

We had some leftover buttermilk, eggs, lemons, and a frozen pie crust, so DW suggested that I make a Lemon Chess Pie for dessert. I then remembered that we also had some leftover coconut in the fridge, so I decided to add a bit to the pie, and voila! Here's the delicious result: Lemon-Coconut...