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Chocolate Covered Cherry Vegan Ice Cream and it Tastes Amazing
Vegan Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream This ice cream may be vegan but that doesn’t mean it isn’t bowl licking amazingly delicious. Who doesn’t like a big bowl of chocolate cherry ice cream that’s good for you too (read full article)
Potato Salad Makes for a Sexy Salad Tossing
Sexy Healthy Potato Salad Yeah, I said it. I said potato salad and sexy in the same sentence, and I mean it. Since when is something that’s cool, creamy and tangy not sexy? I get it, those bulbous little tubers (potatoes) (read full article)
Mr. Stripey!!!
Have you ever just had a day where everything just seems to line up just right and make it into one FANTASTIC day?! Like: ~ spending 30 minutes on the treadmill to start your day off right & get it over with ~ wearing a new sh (read full article)
Spicy Roasted Cauliflower Sealed with a Kiss
Spicy Roasted Cauliflower When Craig goes out of town, it’s time for me to clean up my diet (and that means a short clean detox week). It’s not like he complains about what I cook, or don’t cook, but having a bowl (read full article)
Do They Serve Asparagus with Creamy Lillet Sauce and King Crab in Stockholm
Lillet and Mascarpone Cream Sauce Rather than bore you with the “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me,” because I’m pretty sure that after number 7 I’d just be making shit up, I’m going to let you in (read full article)
Colorful Carrots and Dukkah Oh My
Rainbow Carrots with Dukkah Dip My international travels this year have introduced me to so many new foods (um, no, not carrots). Not content with simply trying a dish that I really like and being satisfied with the mere memory, I (read full article)
Whole Wheat Crepes filled with Mint Cream Cheese with Fresh Cherries
I could say that this past week I've been busy, or tired... but I've just been in a slump when it comes to writing. I get like this sometimes, just as many other bloggers do. I feel guilty for not posting, and then I don't want to post even more.&nbs (read full article)
Market Challenge Portobello Mushrooms
Grilled Portobello Mushrooms with Manchego Cheese A few weeks ago, you may remember that I did a Farmer’s Market challenge with my friend Greg from Sippity Sup and challenged him with lavender – from which he made an incr (read full article)
Red and Green Table Grapes Amp Up a Summer Salsa Recipe
Red and Green Grape Salsa Summer party potlucks…ugh…what to bring? Of course you can bring the usual brownies, guacamole or macaroni salad…but why be ordinary? Yes, I pride myself on being different. Sometimes (read full article)
A Raspberry Vinaigrette and Identity Crisis
Fresh Raspberry Sauce With summer comes an abundance of warm weather and sunshine (if you don’t live in Southern California), mosquitos and raspberries. This time of year we find ourselves consuming our body weight in fresh ber (read full article)
A Sweet Cornbread Muffin by Another Name Would Taste as Sweet
Cornbread Muffins Cornbread is one of those classic food items that people seem to have a bond with. They either grew up munching on the drier more savory cornbread slathered with butter or the sweet cake-like cornbread drizzled wi (read full article)
Pulled and Saucy Without a Grill and BBQ
Pulled BBQ Chicken and Chipotle Raspberry BBQ Sauce A couple of months ago I found out I had a fan in Texas. Big deal, right? No, this is a big deal and how I found out was pretty funny. Back in May, I went to a food blogger camp (read full article)
Easy Zucchini Summer Soup Recipe
Easy Zucchini Summer Soup It’s getting to be that time of year when zucchini starts to pop up everywhere. And if you have a garden with zucchini in it, you’ll start to feel suffocated by the little green monsters in the (read full article)
Real Foods of India Pt. 3
You are checking out Part 3 of the Real Foods of India cooking series. I learned so much from the “Real Foods of India” cooking class at Milestone Culinary Arts Center, led by Minal Jhaveri. We’ve already covered some amazing rec (read full article)
Spice It Up: Soyrizo Black Bean Tacos and Missionary
Soyrizo Black Bean Tacos My repertoire of Mexican recipes is pretty slim and vegetarian Mexican recipes is even slimmer. Of course, I believe that this is fully defensible given that I live in Los Angeles and have access to numer (read full article)
Mary Had a Little Lamb and I Ate it With a Mint Marinade
Mint Marinated Lamb Skewers Lamb is a lot like cilantro, you either love it or hate it. I have a special love of lamb dishes. I know some people don’t like its ‘gaminess,’ but I don’t really mind it. In (read full article)
Come Mister Tally Man Tally Me Banana Ice Cream
Chunky Monkey Ice Cream Clone You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream. You remember that chant from your childhood right? Doesn’t it seem to hold more truth as we become adults? I don’t eat a lot of ice cr (read full article)
A Light and Healthy Cream Sauce is not an Oxymoron
Orecchiette Pasta with Light and Healthy Cream Sauce So the other day Craig and I were having a serious discussion about food. Not to be confused with a serious discussion about what to have for dinner, it was just about food in ge (read full article)
Gluten Free Quinoa Tabbouleh
Quinoa Tabbouleh Tabbouleh is a dish whose ingredients focus on Mediterranean flavors like parsley, mint, tomatoes, onions, lemons and olive oil. If you’ve ever eaten tabbouleh, you’ve probably had it with the grain bul (read full article)
Your Daily Paradox – An Easy Crab Cake Recipe and Male Lesbian Fantasies
Easy Peasy Crab Cakes Crab cakes are one my favorite things, especially when I’m in Maryland. They’re easier to eat than getting the whole crab, although bashing those shells and picking the ensuing shrapnel out of my h (read full article)



