Cooking with Barry & Meta

Back to the Basics (in our kitchen) include baking with sourdough.

It’s back to basics in the West kitchen this morning with sourdough waffles made from Farmer Direct Foods flour in rural New Cambria.

It's back to the basics with this old fashioned recipes that combines cooked rice with milk, sugar and flavorings on the stovetop.

Today’s back-to-basic recipe was my Mom’s No-knead Overnight Cinnamon Rolls.

A simple vintage recipe for complicated times.

Yesterday Barry requested some of his favorite snacks that included Creamy Hummus and Rosemary Crackers After making them I decided to s.

Sweet treats seem to be on my mind as we wait out the COVID 19 stay-at-home orders.

I am committed to paring down both our pantry and freezer reserves.

As I peruse old cookbooks, I ran across several versions of Six-Week Muffins, the kind that started with a box of bran cereal.

Even though I’m home during COVID-19, there are times I still want a quick meal with a minimum of fuss, and easy clean up.

TOP NOTCH LOCAL INGREDIENTS FOR A MAGIC CAKE! As the reality of COVID-19 sinks in, it is making me much more conscious of my food sources.

With a few spears of asparagus from our garden, my thoughts turned to risotto.

No artificial flavors! This pudding is homemade using Hildebrand whole milk, farm eggs and Texas pecans for a topping.

Fall-off-the-Bone Pork Steaks -- essentially a 5-ingredient meal prepared in the slow cooker Fall-off-the-bone tender, mouth-watering fla.

We went on a picnic! And what’s a picnic without cookies? It was the perfect opportunity to try a new recipe and this is the one I’ve been .

This is a rough interpretation of a dish I made tonight for Cinco de Mayo.

Grain bowls are a healthy meal alternative, a way to offer variety and to even use up leftovers.

A fancy jar of fig-walnut jam, a Christmas gift from a niece and nephew, was the inspiration for this recipe—my homemade version of comme.