Red Enchilada Sauce with Apricots

Amazingly versatile, incredibly easy – make buckets of it and throw it over everything!  It’s quite spicy, so choose your chillies to the degree of heat you prefer. I love it spiced with smoked chilli chipotles – if you can get a hold of them. The other great thing about this type of sauce is that the ingredients are […]

Curry in a hurry…Pumpkin Kari

At 6:30 am I sprang (or stumbled more likely) from the zendo into the kitchen to prepare breakfast, assuming we were a group of twelve. Squinting at the attendance list in the dim light, it indicated twenty-four. Everything would have to be doubled! Scrambling my thoughts together we quickly decided what would be possible to prepare within the hour before breakfast, besides […]

Gumbo with Tomato and Beans

I don’t actually know what a real gumbo tastes like, or even an unreal one for that matter. The time we ate what was considered to be the “real deal” was in Hawaii. Yes, in Hawaii, no less. Hawaii is long way from Gumbos’ Louisiana origins, but the menu said it was Gumbo, and I’d always wanted to try […]