Joyfully Retired

Have you ever made your own enchilada sauce? Until last Fall, I hadn’t. I thought all good enchilada sauce came from a can. I was so wrong. Making it from scratch was fairly easy and the flavor was so much better. I want to share with you how to make it. The first thing to [...]

As many of you know, tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday. This is a big event in the US. It’s the one day everyone is a football fan. For the majority of the celebrants it’s really just an excuse to party. Nothing against a good party, unless you seriously want to watch the game. My husband [...]

Two weeks ago I asked readers of Joyfully Retired to participate in a survey on the frequency of cooking at home. (See post here.) I’ve been reading a book by Mark Bittman (Cooking Solves Everything) and I quoted these statistics: “Seven percent of Americans say they never cook; 30 percent say they cook three or [...]

We finally have winter in northern California. No, no snow. Winter here is defined as lots of rain and overnight temps in the 30s and 40s. And when it comes to defining winter food, soup is what usually comes to mind. I played around with some ingredients I had on hand and came up with [...]

I am only half-way through Mark Bittman’s Cooking Solves Everything and my brain is already whizzing. I’m going around quoting statistics and asking everyone I know questions about their food habits. I’ve exhausted my in-your-face friends and now I’m going to tackle you, my online friends. According to Mr. Bittman, Americans don’t bother to cook [...]