Chili with Beans Recipe One of my favorite autumn things is chili. In the summer it’s too hot to make or eat chili. Who wants to sit down with a bowl of steaming hot food when it’s 90 degrees out? Not me, that’s for sure. But at the first hint of that crisp fall air, [...]

We eat a lot of homemade pizza here. I love pizza, but it’s the most diet-unfriendly food in the world when ordered from a delivery place. Besides being overpriced and not very good, to boot. And try to order pizza for 2 people who have completely different ideas of what makes good topping. Just has [...]

Have I mentioned that I love fall foods? I think I might have. Pumpkin is one of my very favorite fall flavors. I love a spicy pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup, roasted pumpkin, grilled pumpkin (yes, we grill even in the fall and winter), pumpkin in all it’s forms. So when I came across this recipe [...]

I love autumn. It’s my favorite season of the year. Cooler temperatures, bright gorgeous autumn leaves, crisp bright orange mums in my garden, and … the food. Oh the varieties of wonderful, warm, yummy comfort food that you can make in the fall now that it’s not too hot to cook. Soups, stews, and chili [...]

I can hardly contain my excitement. One of my longtime goals as a photographer has been to learn how to style and photograph food. I don’t intend to specialize in it, but it is something that, because of my love of cooking and because of the type of photography I do professionally, I’d like to [...]