Roasted Potatoes with Bacon and Brussel Sprouts

There’s a chain of restaurants called Breakfast Republic–I’ve been to the one in San Diego several times. I’m not fond of breakfast — I really don’t like eggs except in cookies . . . but my friends and family like it, so if I want to hang with them, I have to go to breakfast….

Papas Rojas

I lived in Torreon, Mexico for two months when I was 16. The mother of the family I lived with was a terrible cook, so my friend Linda and I quickly learned to stop by a little adobe house on our way “home” from school where the woman who lived there sold tacos (25 cents…