Roadside Food

This prickly pear cactus with its edible fruit and leaves is growing right next the parking lot where the movie set is being built. "Nopales" is the Mexican food made from the fleshy leaves-- after the needles are removed.

More Produce

Produce in Southern California is abundant and diverse. Have you ever had a sapote?

Tangine Dishes

These Moroccan cooking dishes are used to make tangines-- a dish with vegetables (and sometimes meat) traditionally cooked over a flame and seasoned withe salted lemons.  My daughter hand-carried hers and mine home on the plane to California.

Recipe from the Past

Here's the bread that I made for Thanksgiving. The recipe came from a Better Homes and Garden magazine from October, 1969.