I lived my entire life missing out on one of life's greatest food sources.  I can pinpoint the moment when I decided I knew  that I d...

Let's talk kale, shall we?  I had no idea what this stuff was until I was 25 years old and I spent a summer in Brazil with my futur...

Five simple ingredients.  That's all it takes to make my husband the happiest man alive.  Yup, tomatoes with some onion, cilantr...

Remember when I quoted those ever-wise words of Annie?  Well, it happened.  The sun came out, both literally and figuratively.  There is sun...

There's a little something that I do when I find something I really like at a restaurant:  I try to figure out what they did to make it...

A few months ago I read in one of my student's journals that she like to cook.  Taking my comment-making pen (green, by the way, and not...

This is the leaf of couve . Couve , or as we call in America -- collard greens and kale -- is my husband's favorite vegetable.  For t...

I have never been a fan of carrots.  They were always either too crisp (and hard to bite) or too mushy (and tasted like cardboard).  So for ...