Category: Recipes

  • Pearl Couscous Salad and Shrimp

    Pearl Couscous Salad and Shrimp

    One of the best salads I have ever made! Recipe from the New York Times. Some changes noted below as I made this for just Susan and I. Ingredients Yield: 6 servings Preparation Meanwhile, here is a photo from today looking out my window and a recent watercolor:

  • One-Pan Mediterranean Shrimp and Chickpea Skillet

    One-Pan Mediterranean Shrimp and Chickpea Skillet

    Easy to make and delicious!!! Ingredients Instructions Based on a recipe from “30-Minute Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners.”

  • Shrimp with Grapes, Citrus, and Rum

    Shrimp with Grapes, Citrus, and Rum

    So simple to make and simply delicious! Ingredients Instructions Based on a recipe from The Spiced Life, which was based on a recipe in Susan Volland’s Green Black Red: Recipes for Cooking and Enjoying California Grapes.

  • Quick Fish Chowder With Hot Butter Crackers

    Quick Fish Chowder With Hot Butter Crackers

    My wife and I do not often cook dinner together. She is the baker. And I am the maker. I am now reminded of the Aztec Two Step song, You Do The Bakin. Recently, Susan and I made this chowder together and it was delicious. Quoting Sue Li from The New York Times: “As easy…