If you want to prepare a tasty meal for Mom on her day - that would be Sunday - today's Your Life section includes some recipes to simplify the process, even for Dad and kiddies with limited cooking skills. Chicken and sausages centerpiece the batch of printed recipes, while, here, we focus on steak and a luscious chocolate cake.
One of the things we like about using one of Nigella Lawson's cookbooks - and, yes, we know some of you find her precious and a flibbertigibbet, but we disagree - is the open-endedness of most of her recipes. She not only leaves you options but suggests ways to change the recipe as written.
The Chicago Tribune's regular food-shopping column, In the Aisles, visits Mexican staples this week. We can thank the influx of Latin Americans to the Coast for the presence of most of these goodies in local supermarkets.
The women of St. Mark's Episcopal Church will put their "best food forward" as they keep a first-Friday-in-May date they haven't missed since the early 1970s.
At the risk of raising some eyebrows, this foodie isn't overly fond of barbecue. Oh, we like the tenderness of the meat, even the flavor of some dry rubs, but we steer clear of meat - chicken, pork, beef, even game - floating in sauce and peppered to a fare-thee-well.
Teenage daughter has struck again. The sound on her laptop is on the fritz, so guess where she has been? Doing a makeover, maybe a takeover, on my computer.
