Mercado's Life Lessons

I love cucumbers.   I love them raw, in salads, or pickled. I remember dad eating them with just a little vinegar, lot of salt and an awfu...

Today, I’m playing  with a new pudding fruit salad.  It is a Pistachio Fruit Salad.  It would be a great green salad for St. Patrick’s Day....

When I was a Vista Volunteer living in Milwaukee on the near southside I was introduced to Mexican food for the first time. I remember g...

I figured I'd make enchilada soup for our Valentine Day dinner.  It is basically a deconstructed enchilada in a soup base.  I jus...

Pretty in Pink Fruit Salad It is Valentine’s Day today so I’m making my family a Love Salad with just red fruit, bananas, marshmallows a...

I love old movies.  In the movie Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn, Sabrina is a trained French chef who says she can make a soufflé out of cra...

Crock Pot Spare Ribs I watched an IPTV show last week that made me hungry for barbeque ribs.  They stood the ribs up in a slow co...