Vinagre (Pique): Puerto Rican Vinegar Condiment

This may become your favorite flavoring! Vinagre, also referred to as pique, in Puerto Rico is a standard condiment in most homes and at restaurants. The pineapple skins release juice that ferments to make a fruit vinegar that is rich in the enzyme bromelian and vitamin C.

Dear 18 Year Old Me

*The following advice was collected from the managers and directors in Student Affairs at Eastern Washington University, as they reflected on advice they’d like to give themselves as entering freshmen. Dear 18-year-old me, I thought I’d write you a letter, having had the benefit of living through freshman year of college as myself. I hope…

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The Happy Hollandaise Recipe

This is a XXX rated sauce! I have tried numerous hollandaise recipes, but none are as easy or a fool-proof as this simple one from the Sunset Cook Book of Favorite Recipes.  This makes a great blanket for your eggs Benedict or filet mignon. (I could go on and on with other allusions, but this…

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Talking Turkey

Ahhhhh. . . .  Fall!  Turning leaves, smoke drifting through the trees from the first wood stove fires of the year, frost on the pumpkin, bean soups, plaid, and. . .  turkey harvesting. We commenced our fall turkey harvest and processed six out of 23 birds of various sizes.  Here are some of the things…

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Yummy Easy Chocolate Mousse

This  recipe is superbly yummy and relatively easy.  It does not demand the cooking and stirring of the egg custard.  Make it the day before and refrigerate it to allow time to set up properly.  Very easy to double to serve more folks. Makes 2 cups (about 4 servings) 4 oz semisweet chocolate chips1 egg,…

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Tangy Shrimp Mango Salad

A tangy shrimp salad recipe that explains quite bit, but not how to properly use the plural form of mango.

Baby Needs Shoes

Where my appreciation for Ray Charles is amplified when I contemplate #1 Son’s shoes.

Vaquero Pork and Beans

Our Rotary club hosted an international friendship exchange this weekend with some Australian Rotarians.  One of our dinners was a BBQ potluck, and I volunteered to bring pork and beans.  Wanting to serve something representative of this side of the pond, I went for the west coast: a Mexican cowboy version of pork and beans….

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