Armida Cooks!

What do you do when you're invited to a dinner party a couple of hours before it starts and you don't have a dessert to bring? Brow...

Once you've mastered a basic risotto recipe, you can start making up your kind of risotto flavors, which is what I did with this shrimp...

My hubby got us The Encyclopedia of Country Living and it's a wonderful and useful book, even if you don't live out in the country....

I'm blaming my father-in-law, Jim, for my love of making sausage. I just find it really cool that I can make all sorts of sausages, use...

Ina Garten has done it again! This was everyone's favorite dish at my Mother's Day brunch and I, of course, got the recipe from Ina...

I have a suspicion that this baby I'm carrying is a vegetarian. Meats and some poultry makes me gag, and if I could, I would probably l...

I was all Ina'd out this Mother's Day. Not only did I host a brunch at Chateau Blaha, but I also made all the food...and three of m...

On Sunday, May 3rd, I began my wine making journey. Since my husband and I both dream of one day owning a winery and make our own wine, I fi...

I picked up a nice fresh fillet of Chilean sea bass at the farmer's market on Sunday and I wanted to cook it simply...and also use up s...

This was my lunch today, and I have to tell you, it was awesome. I went to the Hillcrest farmer's market today and I bought organic, fa...

Although I'm in my second trimester, my morning sickness came back. I was hoping that it would be over and done with, but I've been...

I made these hermit bars for Matthew. I sent them to him in a care package because apparently these bars hold up pretty well when mailing t...

I do not know what it is, but I'm in a homemade kick right now. Perhaps it's the pregnancy hormones; maybe it's my motherly lov...

I made this super easy meal using my homemade Italian sausage. It's ridiculously easy and the broccoli rabe adds a nice mild bitter fl...

I have been getting spoiled by my husband lately. Maybe it's because I'm carrying his child; perhaps because I'm very emotional ...

I haven't been watching much Rachael Ray on Food Network lately only because she had begun to annoy me (just like Paula Deen). I truly ...

In Chef Melissa Mayer's cooking class that I attended last week, she briefly talked about the competition she was in with the Food Netw...