Miscellaneous with stew

4 ounces about 8 dried ancho chiles , stemmed and seeded 2 cups water 3 -4 roasted plum tomatoes , coarsely chopped or 3/4 cup chopped canned tomato 2[...]

A quick shot of last night’s half-time dinner: picadillo on yellow rice with black beans. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. I followed a recipe for the[...]

1 lb lean ground beef 1 medium onion , chopped 1 (15 1/4 ounce) can whole kernel corn , undrained 1 (10 ounce) can diced tomatoes with mild green chilies ,[...]

When it snows, it blizzards. You’d think the east coast had never seen the powdery white flakes before, based on the panicked reaction that the most[...]