Food + Drink

This recipe comes from: The Herb Garden Cookbook, The Complete Gardening & Gourmet Guide, by Lucinda Hutson, Second Edition. Lucinda encourages taking this basic recipe and changing up the ingredients for different flavor sensations.

For us chocoholics, what could be more heavenly than the thought of chocolate growing on trees? Fantasy? Well, yes…and no! The fact is chocolate actually does grow on small evergreen trees called Theobroma cacao, which translates to “food of the gods

Plano and Frisco offer the best patios for outdoor dining this fall There’s nothing quite like dining al fresco, and with the sweltering days of summer behind us, now is the perfect time to embrace and enjoy the outdoors on some of the top patios in

This is one of those recipes you can play with, adding whatever vegetables and seasonings you prefer. Also called pearl couscous, Israeli couscous is a really small type of pasta made from semolina. It is not a grain, as some believe.

There are a lot of ingredients for this recipe, but it’s well worth the effort. I use white pita bread; the freshest and softest I’ve found is sold at Sara’s Market & Bakery on Sherman Street in Richardson.

I eat these burritos often for dinner, sometimes adding ham or bacon.

These are meant to be served as appetizers, but I usually eat them for a light lunch or dinner. The noodles and the rice paper wrappers can be found in Asian markets. Ingredients 6 oz.

This is a wonderful recipe, with the same flavor profile of Mu Shu Pork offered in most Asian restaurants. Although usually offered as an appetizer, I prefer to serve them as a main course. Ingredients 2 tbsp. lower-sodium soy sauce 1 tbsp.

You may want to substitute white flour tortillas for whole wheat and use grilled chicken tenders for the wraps. Ingredients 1 cup grape tomatoes, halved 3 tbsp. pitted Kalamata olives, coarsely chopped 2 tbsp. crumbled feta cheese 1½ tbsp.

Food wraps . A modern culinary invention? Most of us probably think so, since in recent times they have appeared more and more on restaurant menus.