Armida Cooks!

My husband will be single (sort of speak) for the next couple of days while I'm in Fresno and he'll be cooking bachelor meals for h...

My husband got me the Steven Raichlen's BBQ USA cookbook for Christmas. It's a huge book of barbeque recipes from all across americ...

One of my favorite recipes that I came up with is this spinach and avocado with black olives salad. It's so easy to make but the key li...

If you are into spicy flavored food, this is your recipe. It's not spicy hot, but just bursting with bell pepper flavor. I used seven d...

Gremolata pasta is a very simple pasta dish that you can make in less than 15 minutes. This makes a great lunch or light dinner, but it spec...

Who has time to cook anymore? Let alone for two hours??? Well, if for some reason you find a couple of hours of free time in your busy sche...

Back in the day when I was a child, my grandmother used to to simmer beans all day long in an clay pot, known as an olla . Today, modern mat...

The Prado restaurant is one of our favorite places to eat here in San Diego. My husband's favorite dish is the chef's specialty, por...

To commemorate our nuptials, my husband and I came up with this cocktail. Maybe it has already been invented, but I couldn't find anyth...

This is the type of cocktail that one invents when it's minus 7 degrees outside with 5" of snow and there is only Grain Belt beer...

If you're one of those people that had a bad experience with tequila back in college and now you can't drink it, then you must try t...

I'm not really sure how this cocktail got started, but in our family we drink micheladas on New Year's day as a hangover cure. I...

Everytime I drink a mojito I daydream I'm in a sandy beach in the Bahamas with warm, clear water and some hunky guys serving me drinks.....

A couple of years ago I tried the Bellini cocktail at the Baccarat Bar in the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, and I fell in love wit...

My cousin Kathy has a knack for baking. She loves to bake cookies, fudge and brownies. Last night, at our annual Amador Secret Santa party ...

Tarragon is my new favorite herb. I recently used it on halibut and on a corn and lima bean salad and boy, is it good! The herb has a fre...

Every year my parent's have a Christmas block party in their neighborhood. Each family visits a neighbor's house for drinks or cooki...

My step-mom, Elaine, received an incredible gift from her boss this year: a trio of imported French cheeses and crackers. And so last night,...

During Christmastime, Mexican families everywhere enjoy homemade atole , a cornstarch-based Mexican hot chocolate drink, also known as champ...

The Mission describes itself as a "Chino Latino restaurant" since it serves Latin food with an Asian twist (such as the ginger-se...