I had read about the Fiery Food Show for at least the last five years. But every time I thought about going, it had already come and gone. This year I finally thought about it early enough to make plans and get there. It’s in Albuquerque and fortunately Thea’s sister and brother-in-law are there so…

I spent the first extra-long holiday weekend of the year cooking. It was experimental fun and something that I enjoy doing. Normally, I would have spent much of that time watching college football. But I didn’t have a favorite in any of the College Bowl Playoffs. In years past, I’d have been rooting for OU…

It’s been a decade since I bought my Soul and seven years before that when I bought my Civic and five years before that I was driving an Element. Before that was a Frontier and a Sonata. I’m basically trying to get across that I’m not done with a car until my mileage is in…

I am Soul-less and no longer Civic minded. My Soul was nearing the end of its expected life. It had achieved the expected mileage, 136000+. But the engine was burning oil, rattling, and losing power. I couldn’t really expect much more from a ten year old car. My Civic was my Sunday car and loaner….

If you don’t already know, ’empanada’ just means ‘in bread’. So it’s another way of saying a ‘hand pie’. There are two elements to any hand pie; the filling and the crust. I worked out how to make each. First I had to make the filling. This recipe is an aggregate of quite a few…