Chilled Plum Wine Soup This is a delicious and versatile summer soup that will make you famous with your family and friends!  A refreshing way to either start or … Continued

Poached Chicken Breasts with Blackberry Cabernet Sauce is healthy and incredibly good! You can either pick your own fresh blackberries, purchase local grown blackberries, or even use frozen blackberries. Poaching … Continued

  Poached Pears in Wine with Ginger and Peppercorns is a delicious and wonderful light dessert after a satisfying meal.  Poaching pears seems to bring out the natural sweetness of … Continued

Pomegranate Braised Lamb Shanks are very delicious with many layers of flavor.  Thet makes a beautiful presentation for your guests as well.  Although the recipe calls for Merlot wine, I … Continued

  Pomegranate Martinis are a sexy cocktail – just the right blend of sweet and tart without being too much of either.  This drink is similar to a Cosmopolitan, but features … Continued

  Pomegranate Vinaigrette is a great tasting healthy salad dressing.  This recipe is a low-fat, low-calorie and low-carbohydrate dressing – plus you have all the benefits and nutrients of the pomegranate juice.  When … Continued

Also called Chinese grapefruit, shaddock, pumelo, pommelo, and pompelmous. The pomelo is an exotic large citrus fruit that is an ancient ancestor of the common grapefruit.  It is the largest … Continued

Brined Pork Loin with Roasted Avocado-Pepper Salsa Recipe is about as good has pork can get.  Brined pork loin is so easy to do and the results are superior! Brining … Continued

This Pork Ribs with Orange Zest Recipe is an easy and very flavorful recipe.  The sauce makes a beautiful gravy with the addition of the corn starch, and the tomatoes … Continued

Pork Spareribs with Apples and Squash makes a complete meal that is an easy-to-make and so delicious!   The combination of flavors from the ingredients is delicious and intensifies even more … Continued

Portland Fig Cookies are fabulous –  I love figs – Especially Fig Newton cookies. This recipe is a great replica of the classic Nabisco Fig Newton.  The original fig cookie … Continued

  What are preserved lemons?  A preserved lemon is a lemon that has been soaking in lemon juice and salt for a period of time.  During this process, the lemon … Continued

One of the newer food fads is the tasty Prickly Pear Margarita served by trendy restaurants across the Southwest. The margarita was invented to act as a coping mechanism that … Continued

  This wonderful Provencal Orange and Honey Fruit Salad would make an outstanding first course for your dinner party. It is really more of a technique than an actual recipe, … Continued

Raspberry Brownie Delight is a unique way to use those chocolate brownies for dessert.  The addition of fresh raspberries makes an easy to make dessert that pleases everyone you serve it … Continued