Cooking with Barry & Meta

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.

I was introduced to Hot Brown Sandwiches during our last trip to Kentucky when we met Colonel Bob and Cora Jane Spiller for lunch at a do.

This almost picture perfect loaf of Oatmeal Bread comes from a recipe at the King Arthur website .

My dad was a wheat farmer and thought a meal was not complete without some type of bread; I seem to be returning to his way of thinking d.

We've made grain bowls , rice bowls , party platters and Mexican Haystacks - all attempts to add a little fun to our meals during COVID-10.

It’s a pasta dish of a different sort! Yes, Israeli (pearl) couscous is actually pasta formed into small pearl shapes.

I have been wanting to try my hand at decorating focaccia with veggies and herbs.

While I normally prefer baked cookies, these sounded good and easy, too.

Barry and I attended the National Festival of Breads in Manhattan last year.