Growing up in Detroit, we had limited places for BBQ. BBQ was burning chicken or grilling a steak. Everything was heavily sauced, and I don’t ever remember smelling smoke when walking into a BBQ place. Then I went to Memphis and on strict orders from my boss, I was told to get ribs at Corky’s….

It’s almost Hanukkah and Latkes are a traditional dish. Mine not so much. I used sweet potatoes, poblano peppers, and red onion. I used creme fraiche instead of sour cream, but both work. Lox are a salty note, and the pepper adds a little heat. 1 pound sweet potatoes, peeled and grated1/2 red onion, finely…

This is another way of doing the classic paella. The usual way is with rice. I was speaking with the owner of OBRADOR* Spanish bakery, and she told me that they use spaghetti instead of rice in the dish in her region of the country. Wow! I thought this is something worth trying. There are…

This is a 2020 cutout cookie that I’m sure someone came up with years ago, but I’ll take the credit. I feel that chocolate and mint work well in everything, but I wanted to double up on the mint in this recipe by putting the mint in both the cookie and the icing. So in…

I am a contrarian. I like some traditions but with food, not so much. Snowballs are a classic Christmas cookie and called by a few names, but for our purposes we will go by snowballs. I’m known to like things a little hotter, so why not the fireball? Cinnamon in the cookie and cinnamon in…