Enjoy cooking these recipes from Apopka area cookbooks

Another of our Kitchen Kapers columns created from a big stack of our Apopka-area community cookbooks stacked high on the floor beside my desk...

Varied recipes from Treasures and Pleasures cookbook

This week’s Kitchen Kapers is a collection of as many varied recipes for soups, stews and chowders as can fit into this space, all...

Healthy Valentine Recipes

Valentine’s Day 2014 is just a week away. Once again it’s time to choose for the most important person in your life the perfect paper...

Enjoy the Florida winter with hot meals from area cookbooks

Cool wintertime climes have returned to us again, following another long, hot Florida summer! And, oh, yes, this wonderful so much appreciated annual seasonal change...

Make your own broth or fancy-it up with Pasta e Fagioli...

From The New York Times NEW Natural Foods Cookbook, by Jean Hewitt, we have recipes for Homemade Chicken Broth, Turkey Broth, and Vegetable...

Enjoy preparing these foods during the month of May

May is such a wonderful month! Not too cold, not too hot, beautiful May is just right in so many ways. Mostly, the month of May...

Choose Superb Baked Scallops or Maryland Crab Cakes recipes to make

Scallop season is in full bloom now in many of our west coast counties and through the end of September. From Cooking with Foliage...

Celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, friends and great food

Independence Day, is next Thursday, July 4th. We, in Apopka and all of the United States, love this day. We celebrate in many ways,...

Baking mashed potatoes until golden brown takes 30 minutes

A chicken pie recipe from Rochelle Rogers in the cookbook from First Presbyterian Church of Punta Gorda titled “A Taste of Heaven” makes me...

Celebrate a special Mother’s Day with these interesting treats

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 10. It is that important big day again when we annually focus our attention on our mothers and how very...