Daktari's Diner

When late summer casts an amber glow on the blazing leaves and the air becomes crisp and chill, you can bet its time to break out the soup...

This morning, I thought about going to Denny's for breakfast.  Seems that always happens on Sunday mornings.  I get up, want coffee, and...

Note:  I had to revise this post because, well, I was wrong.  The sauce is the most magnificent thing I have tasted in a while.  Maybe it ne...

I used to have time to monkey around on the internet.  And on one of those forays into the Interwebs, I found one of the best recipes of all...

When I go to potlucks, I normally pass on every sort of salad.  Potato salad?  No.  Macaroni salad?  No.  Three bean salad?  Oh hell no. ...

Pico is quick and easy and tasty as hell. Ingredients: 6 roma tomatoes, cored and diced 1/2 yellow onion, diced 1/4 cup cilantro lea...

Pot de creme.  It is just fun to say.  For those non-francophones, you pronounce it po-duh-krem.  But you have to say that last part like yo...

Chance the Magnificent! Post script:  I am sorry to say that Chance passed away on September 29, 2012.  My sister got him when he was ab...

**A postscript (which is really a pre-script if you are reading this for the first time :p)  This is delicious as a cereal in the morning f...

YUM! Can you tell it's apple season?  My tree produced a bumper crop this year, despite our exceptional drought. The late, late, la...

 I have an apple tree in my yard, and despite the drought this year, I managed to get a healthy crop of apples.  I've eaten plenty raw....

Blame Charles Barkley. I'm back on Weight Watchers.  They have revamped their program.  I've decided to give this new, revamped prog...

Cornbread.  It's so simple really.  Just cornmeal, flour, eggs, fat and a splash of buttermilk.  But the secret to great cornbread is la...

My new year’s resolutions are a little different this year.  Before, I was focused on graduation or losing weight, but I feel like I’ve got...

I love moussaka and when eggplant is as cheap as it's been the past few weeks at the farmer's market (50 cents each for very large e...

This is adapted from a Weight Watchers recipe.  Believe it or not, if you scour their recipe site, you can find some winners.  This is one...

Here is a recipe I had been dying to try for weeks. It turned out so good!! I will post the recipe in its original form, but I made several ...

Ahem.  I know.  I have neglected this blog in the worst way.  But really, I have an excuse.  I moved.  I got a new job.  I moved.  If I surv...

I planted a garden this year.  It looks like this.  This is the tame side anyway where the rambling squash vines are hidden.  But this is m...