Cooking for Real with Sunny Anderson Real Comfort, Real Good Spicy Macaroni and Cheese Pan Fried Meatloaf in Tricolor Peppers Shake Shots I liked Sunnys first show, which I saw some time ago, but not her timeslot . Sunday mornings are not my first choice for food tv . But I saved a bunch of Sunnys shows and I like the menu on this one one dish in particular I thought was very clever. Sunnys doing comfort food. She starts with her mothers spicy mac and cheese. She adds 2 cups of elbow pasta to boiling salted water. She goes on the meatloaf.  read more »

With rising food prices, consider spending more time in your kitchen honing your home cooking. It will help stretch your food dollars.

Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller Thai One On Peanutty Somen Noodles with Shrimp Chicken Satay with Rice Mango-Red Onion Salad Steak Salad with Peanut-Lime Vinaigrette Root Beer Floats Chocolate-Hazelnut Sandwich Cookies It takes a lot to make a bad peanut sauce, but thats just what happened when I looked in on Robin Millers Quick Fix Meals. This was a show from 2006 and I LOVE peanut sauce, so I thought I would check it out. Her plan was to make a peanut sauce at the beginning of the week and use it in several ways to make different meals during the week. That sounds fine. But I grow concerned at her very first step. She takes 3 cups of chicken stock and pours it into a pot. Why does that bother me?  read more »

This anytime easy meal is a cultural icon on a plate.

For Today
Outside my Window
The sun is just starting to peek above the horizon. All the earth is bathed in early morning dew, which sparkles like little jewels upon the grass and flowers in my garden. It reminds me of when I was a child and my mother would send me out to the garage to bring out our bicycles and my brothers toy wagon in the mornings. I would be wearing canvas sneakers and the toes would get all wet from the dew . . . it felt nice. There's a special smell in the air in the early morning . . . the smell of dew and the earth waking up.  read more »

Why is it that no one ever told me about the pork tenderloin?

Has everyone been cooking pork tenderloin all this time, licking their lips and giggling covertly as I fought to make other cuts palatable, trying my best to prevent them from turning out dry, and grey?  read more »

LOS ANGELES AP The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs. Officials said it was the largest beef recall in the United States, surpassing a 1999 ban of 35 million pounds of ready-to-eat meats. No illnesses have been linked to the newly recalled meat, and officials said the health threat was likely small. The recall will affect beef products dating to Feb.  read more »

Thai Red Beef Curry Recipe

Thai Beef for Serves 4.

Ingredients:  read more »