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Black beans may be my favorite of all the legumes. The rich dark silkiness achieved by slow cooking black beans...

Bags of freshly picked tender baby kale greeted me last weekend at the Covington Farmer’s Market. How could I resist?...

Chocolate heaven! My neighbor, Carol, gifted me with these cookies many years ago when I first moved into our neighborhood....

The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book was first published in 1901. In this edition, the soft shell crab or “crabs mous”...

Santorini, one of the Cyclades Islands in Greece, is as close as I believe that I will ever get to...

I was first introduced to couscous in a small Moroccan restaurant in the Latin Quarter in Paris, “Au Bon Couscous.”...

I have Alice Medrich, author of “Sinful Easy Delicious Desserts,” for this simple luscious recipe for flan with my favorite...

Salata Letchine is a date and orange salad from Morocco. I first saw this recipe in Paula Wolfert’s excellent book,...

I guess if you add garlic, lemon, olive oil, and oregano to anything you could fairly state that it has...

I love this crabmeat salad. The recipe is a little loose so I tried to be more specific with amounts...

My favorite summer cocktail, a vodka pomegranate martini. Filled with vitamins and powerful antioxidants I like to imagine that the...

Grillades, a Creole brunch tradition in New Orleans that is NOT about grilled meat. The local debate over grillades usually...