Pasta is a weeknight staple – fast, easy, filling, and requiring little in the way of skill or attention. If you can boil water and heat sauce, you can have dinner on the table in 20 minutes. When I have some spare moments, I like to make a home-made pasta…
Apparently, I am going for decadent as possible in this week’s posts – between the Melted Ice Cream French Toast on Monday and the Duck Bacon Jam today, it would appear that I am trying to take a few years off of all our lives. On the flip side, carpe…
This week was a week of gatherings, get togethers and good byes, peppered with good friends and food. I ‘do’ parties professionally. As in, I’m the gal behind the scenes pulling strings to make everything come together. Here’s the stressful bit about doing events – I always secretly wonder if…
Every once in awhile you get an ingredient that you don’t know how to handle, or what to do with. Eggplant is one of those for me. But at the same time the challenge of, what the devil am I going to do with this, becomes fun. At least we…
I am a big fan of recipes that involve a bit of loving neglect. I love cooking, but am an avid multitasker, or possibly (read: likely) I just get distracted easily. So recipes that involve intentional forgetfulness are my bread and butter. It also hurts my soul to toss food…
That guy I mostly hang out with, well it was his birthday this week. He and I differ slightly in how we like to celebrate life events. Greg thinks that a birthday is “just another day” while the Latina-girl in me thinks anything less than a weeklong celebration for any…
I think everyone comes to their present relationship with food from different points and perspectives. That’s probably how it should be, otherwise, all food would be the same, and that would be a little boring. I love trying new things and experiences, as it adds so much more to life.…
Ok, so I’ll admit it. I’m a bit of a coffee snob. I like good coffee that is brewed well. I don’t understand how people can get coffee from a convenience store and be happy with it. I brew our coffee every morning, because I am picky about it, and…
We had some torrential rain this past week at my home base in the Salty City. It was my cue that it is time to kiss summer goodbye. Though I tend to do so kicking and screaming… I love harvest veggies and sweaters and soup that come along with the…
Forbidden Rice Pudding sounds nice and naughty… in a delicously contraband kind of way. We all appreciate forbidden fruit, and I would stack this rice pudding made with coconut milk up against original sin. First things first – what exactly IS forbidden rice? It is a type of purple-black rice-an…