Fast Easy Recipes

Burritos with Multi-Colored Rajas, Ham, and Cheese
By adding turkey ham and colorful sweet bell peppers to the traditional burrito filled with rajas/strips of poblano chiles and cheese, a delicious antojito can be transformed into an even more delicious one. If you do not believe me, just ask "traditional" Maria.

Great uses for those chipotle chiles
Readers were ready with advice last week for how to get the most from a can of chipotle chiles in adobo. All of the tips were better than my usual tactic of covering the still-mostly-full can with a plastic bag and tucking it in the fridge until inspiration strikes. These smoked jalapeno chiles swimming in a thick, flavorful adobo sauce have plenty of uses.

Recipe: Ethiopian Vegetable Stew
Serve this spicy stew over hot cooked rice. A range has been given for the chillies so that the spiciness can be chosen.

Wing and a Chair: Getting your food on for the big game
Wings and dip are the way to nosh this Super Bowl Sunday.

Fort Collins' margaritaville: Three Houston hippies 25 years ago turned a lifestyle into a Colorado Tex-Mex tradition ...
When someone says "The Rio," what's the first thing that comes to mind? The margs, right? The three pals who started a restaurant in a small Fort Collins storefront never dreamed that the tequila concoction they served along with the Tex-Mex foods of their childhood would eventually make them the world's largest customer of Jose Cuervo tequila.

From lasagna to tamales, turn just about any dish into a main course soup
From lasagna to tamales, turn just about any dish into a main course soup

Martin Yan to help welcome the Year of the Dragon
The Year of the Dragon is starting out with a roar for cookbook author, restaurateur and certified master chef.

Building a better tamale
Pediatrician Catherine Vigran has fought the devastation of diabetes and obesity among her young patients in determined and personal ways.

Spice up your January with chili
It seems that anything spicy and served with a spoon can be labeled chili these days.

Two fine cookbooks, no matter your gender
Year after year, good and not so good cookbooks keep coming out. Recently, two new titles made us wonder whether there is something gender-specific about cooking and cookbooks. Could a cookbook in 2012 possibly have something to say to women and not to men? Or vice versa?