October 11th, 2015 
Blog, Salads & Salad Dressings 
Comments Off on Sweet and Savory Fig, Plum, Onion & Lettuce Salad – All in Pictures 
Like a richly balanced symphony of sound, the sweet and savory ingredients in this salad bring out the best in complimentary flavors. The sweetness of fruit enhances the savoriness of lettuce and onions, and the savory does the same to the sweet.
Here are the ingredients needed to make this sweet and savory salad. (NOTE: Figs and plums are seasonal fruits. Read more »
October 5th, 2015 Blog, One Bowl Meals, Pasta Comments Off on Pasta with Sausage and Fresh Fig Sauce – All in Pictures Pasta with sausage and fresh fig sauce: great stuff! Aside from its warmly robust sweet and savory flavor, the sausage and fig sauce can be made in the same time it takes just to cook pasta.
Now, what if fresh figs aren’t on the market – or you don’t like them? No problem. Just substitute those figs with any other available fruits: apples, pears, peaches, or plums – or whatever suits your taste.
Here’s what you need for ingredients.
September 29th, 2015 Blog, Fish, Seafood Comments Off on Taking Fish Tacos From Simple to Exciting! – All in Pictures 
Fish tacos: fantastically flavorful, easy to make, and just as easy to vary in flavor using either your choice or a combination of the “simple to exciting!” ingredients you see below – or whatever you want to suit your imagination and taste.
September 27th, 2015 Blog, Fish, Seafood Comments Off on Another Blessed Sunday – by Bill Fleming: In Pictures I’ve laid down a couple fish recipes lately and have another that I’ll put up soon. But first, I got the fish/fishing story you see below from a darn good friend I served with in the Navy it seems like lifetimes ago. Bill Fleming was – and still is – the real deal as both a river boat gunner in Vietnam and savvy intelligence officer both at sea on carriers and on land in Washington DC. We got a lot done together in DC while, at the same time, having our good share of laughs.
Bill posted this story on Facebook a few weekends ago. I got a good smile out of it and hope you do too.
Introduction: With nothing planned for lunch, our Lord provides, I’ve always been told. So, in pictures, this is how my (recent) Sunday of culinary experiences unfolded.
It all started about 6:00 A. M., much darker than it appears. The lonely dock became my church, sort of, with a congregation of one this morn. That’s the moon shining overhead, not the sun! I plugged for bass and jigged for crappie, turning up one undersized specimen, released to grow some more.
September 22nd, 2015 Blog, Fish, Seafood Comments Off on Fish Tacos – Quick & Easy and All in Pictures 
Last post showed how to cook a whole fish on the stove, which is a technique I just recently learned – and like very much for its terrific flavor and because it makes the most of the fish by reducing the loss of meat that takes place when fish is filleted (removed from the bone while the fish is raw). But since filleted fish is most available on the market, especially in our U.S. grocery stores, making these quick and easy fish tacos is a great way to make a complete and fantastically flavorful meal with a good piece of fish fillet.
Here’s what you need for ingredients to make quick and easy fish tacos.
Click any picture on this page for a complete, easy-to-follow step-by-step picture book recipe. Read more »
September 14th, 2015 Blog, Fish, Seafood Comments Off on Stove Cooked Whole Fish with Fresh Vegetables – All in Pictures Just a few weeks ago one of my sons and I went fishing for black sea bass out of Falmouth, Massachusetts. When we got back, I commented to our boat captain as he cleaned our catch about the amount of waste that went into filleting the fish. The boat captain the next slip down heard my comment and mentioned that we Americans are about the only culture that fillets fish. Most everyone else cooks their fish whole. That captain, Capt. Willy Hatch, who runs Machaca Charters, then told me that he particularly likes to coat the fish skin with a dry rub, meaning dried herbs and spices, and then cook the fish, with just the head removed, in hot oil, which essentially steams the fish from the inside out in its own juices. Capt. Willy, great guy, then prepared two fish exactly the way I needed to cook them whole as shown in the picture below.
September 8th, 2015 Blog, Fitness Food, Salads & Salad Dressings, Vegetables Comments Off on Crisp Corn and Bell Pepper Salad – All in Pictures 
Last two posts showed how to cook corn on the stove and in the microwave oven. Easy. Here’s a great way to combine the crisp sweetness of corn with bell pepper (I like using red, yellow, or orange bell pepper for this because they’re sweeter and more flavorful than green bell peppers), onion, garlic, and cilantro. Terrific combination!
Here’s what you need to make this crisp corn and bell pepper salad for 3-4 people.
Click any picture on this page for a complete, easy to follow step-by-step picture book recipe. Read more »
September 3rd, 2015 Blog, Vegetables Comments Off on Microwave Cooked Corn on the Cob – Incredibly Easy, All in Pictures 
Aside from being incredibly quick and easy, cooking corn in the microwave oven as shown in the picture book recipe you can get here is probably the best way both to maximize corn’s flavor and nutritional value as the corn cooks inside its own husk.
Here’s what you need to cook corn on the cob in the microwave oven.
August 28th, 2015 Blog, Vegetables Comments Off on Stove Cooked Corn on the Cob: Quick, Easy, and All in Pictures 
Fresh, crisp corn on the cob; it’s a summer staple and very quick and easy to cook on the stove.
Here’s all you need.
August 19th, 2015 Blog, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, Snacks, Special Recipes Comments Off on Pistachio Pesto: Nutty, Herby, and All in Pictures 
If you like pistachios and basil or are already a big fan of pesto, you’ll love this recipe. As I mention on the first page of the step-by-step picture book recipe shown below you can get by clicking any picture on this page,…
