Comfort Food
Red Chile Enchiladas
Decisions, decisions. Stack it or roll it. Blue corn or yellow. Red sauce or green. You gotta engage when you eat a New Mexico...
Fish and Shellfish
Salmon with Mustard Dill Sauce
Despite having salmon EVERY SINGLE MEAL in Port Townsend, I came back home craving it. Luckily our family was happy to indulge me.
Rewind several...
Creole/Cajun
Road Trip to New Orleans and a Shrimp Po Boy
Every year we used to pile in the car at 6 a.m. on a July morning, slip in the Willie Nelson CD (On the...
African
New Orleans Gumbo | Ghanaian Okra Stew
Once our van headed east out of Ghana’s capital, Accra, towards Mafi Zongo, civilization as we knew it petered out fast. At first, we...
Gluten Free
Arugula Pesto and Buffalo Mozzarella
In summer 2001, we took our son, then a 13 year-old Latin student, to Rome, Pompeii and Paestum. He and John, Sr. spent hours,...
French
Roasted Pork Belly
In both New York and Paris, we've recently enjoyed meals featuring the delicious pork belly. A rich, fork-tender piece of meat, it holds many...