I love receiving homemade foods as holiday gifts. My favorites are those that will last at least for a week or so after Christmas. As a giver of food gifts, I also like making presents that can be expensive to… Continue Reading
I may have mentioned a time or 200 that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. The flip side is that few things can make me feel more depressed than a Thanksgiving where I’m not cooking, something I’ve experienced a few times… Continue Reading
Did you know that the peach is a member of the rose family – cousin to apricots, cherries plums, and almonds? What a wonderfully happy family of fruit! Peaches are, of course, fantastic on their own. A warm juicy peach… Continue Reading
Food rarely photographs as well as I’d like, which certainly is the case with this dish that I invented, Summer Pasta Stacks. I prepared it last month for a fundraiser to benefit Kids Turn Shasta Cascade, where about 140 guests… Continue Reading
Q: Congratulations on your win at the Pros and Joes BBQ Grilldown’s first place for tri-tip. To start, would you care to tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Clinton Nash. I manage a granite fabrication shop and build outdoor kitchens, barbecue islands and pizza ovens for a living. Barbecue is a hobby. Q: What Continue Reading
A tree full of ripe fruit is a combination culinary blessing/emergency. On the one hand it’s a gift to have access to tree-ripened fruit. On the other hand, the fruit must be picked immediately, or risk it falling to the… Continue Reading
Q: Justin Tweedy, welcome to A News Cafe.com. I’m delighted to talk with you today because you and your team – “Ribs 4 Her Pleasure” – earned the Pros & Joes’ highest award as Grand Champion, with combined scores from… Continue Reading
On Memorial weekend, Results Radio sponsored its sixth annual Pros and Joes BBQ Grilldown in downtown Redding. There, professional cooks (Pros) and lay cooks (Joes) competed to see who could barbecue or smoke the best ribs, tri-tip and chicken. Over… Continue Reading
Lucky me to receive some free, sample bottles of Lucero olive oil as “research” a few weeks before my cooking demo at Lucero Olive Oil’s 5th Annual Spring Bloom Festival in Corning Saturday. Friend Chris Carter, my favorite catering partner, was my… Continue Reading
I mentioned earlier that my mother wasn’t a fan of cooking, though during her prime maternal years, she presented to me and my three sisters an impressively healthy array of morning entrees like stewed prunes, broiled grapefruit topped with brown… Continue Reading
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