Spinach Bites

These is what J. and I had for lunch today. Spinach is one of my favorites vegetables in the whole world. And use it often in my cooking. Stuffed pastries, salads, stuffed homemade pasta, dips... and other dishes.My Mom used to make these Spinach Bit (read full article)

Chausson a la Volaille and French Cooking Classes"Chausson a la Volaille"During this time I've been taken classes of French cuisine and I just learned this recipe last week. I love it! And one of the reasons, besides the "Delisious Taste", the first (read full article)

Parmesan--Spinach--Hunting Eggs PieHappy Easter!!! Our friends L. and M. Invited us for Good Friday dinner tonight. So I thought that a good and not complicated dish to bring for tonight will be "My Mother's best Spinach Pie Recipe". But as usual, (read full article)

The Most Important Meal of the Day

Mornin’! It was another beautiful, albeit humid, morning for a quick run, so I whipped out a speedy mile and half after my morning Mom walk. I wasn’t really feeling it, as my Mom and I rounded the final corner of our walk, but I thou (read full article)

Best fine dining experience ever!!!

A very special occasion calls for an extremely special meal to celebrate. And what better way to celebrate than to have it all at Feringgi Grill @ Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa?! Simple table deco, nothing much. A huge plate / whatever you call it, (read full article)

Call for Guest Posts: My Best Vacation Ever!

Good morning! Holy. Cow. It was 62 degrees when my Mom and I left for our morning walk! Those two crazy women walking around with their arms stuffed into their t-shirts so only their hands were visible? Yeah, that was us. It was ch-ch-ch-chilly! Ch (read full article)

Sunday Night Blues

The heat never came! We’re sittin’ pretty at 83 degrees right now, and the cool breeze plus mild temps (compared to what we’ve been experiencing,) lured me out under the umbrella on my back deck to read all afternoon. Eclipse, nat (read full article)

3rd Mile, Choon Yuan

I’m not quite sure what’s the name of the shop… however, I do know that it’s located at 3rd Mile, two shops away from Dong Guan Cafe ;) The stall has been  very well known for the spinach noodles and also car (read full article)

Summer Squash Salad with Dill Sauce

recipe from Rene Oswald Ingredients: Salad: 3 yellow squash (about 2 lb.) 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes, soaked in water for 15 minutes 10 sun-dried olives, pitted 2 ears of corn, kernels removed from cob 1/2 lb. lettuce or spinach leaves Delicious Di (read full article)

Spinach and Eggplant Pierogi Topped with Roasted Grape Tomatoes and Yogurt Sauce - A Daring Cooks Challenge

 The August 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by LizG of Bits n’ Bites and Anula of Anula’s Kitchen. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make pierogi from scratch and an optional challenge to provide one filling that best repr (read full article)

Yummy Green Smoothie Recipe! Ep280

Tropical Green Smoothie recipe, great for beginners, you won’t even taste the greens! Tropical Green Smoothie 1 Banana 1 Mango 1 Cup Pineapple 1 Cup Baby Spinach 1/2 Cup Filtered Water Blend all ingredients and ENJOY!! Yummy Green Smoothie Reci (read full article)

Today's lunch

This morning I cooked for a client who had a "no salt" dietary restriction.  One of the entrees I made was a chickpea and quinoa pilaf with sauteed baby bok choy and shiitake mushroom.  It was tough restraining myself from adding tamari to (read full article)

Spinach Smoothie

I have a confession.  I have never had a smoothie with spinach till today.  I am not sure why I have never tried it, maybe I just didn't have any at the time I was making smoothies?  But today I was in the fridge pulling out fruit and (read full article)

Let's Talk Strategy: Step Away from the Chips Challenge

Do you have a game plan for Monday's challenge? Let's start with listing which processed foods we're going to avoid. I'm giving  up cookies, chips, other snacks, most dairy and fast food. I eat Greek yogurt, salmon in a pouch, frozen seafood (read full article)

10-minute Asian Soup

I was grocery shopping with my sister this past weekend and saw her grab a smallish bag of soba buckwheat noodles. Thats a good idea, I thought, so I grabbed a bag as well. When I think of soba noodles I instantly think of the soup that you would get (read full article)

The Buzz - Chardonnay and Petite Sirah Dinner

11 August 2010 - Another wonderful Wine Dinner at the Buzz! Tonight we had Petite Sirah and Chardonnay. All of the wines were within the $10.00 to $15.00 range and most being $10.00. My scores were consistently pretty high. The scores are in (20) wit (read full article)

Pretty produce

I stopped by my local independent grocery store, The Whitneyville Market, this morning to hang a flyer and caught a glimpse of these pretty little tomatoes and weird looking pepper on the produce shelf.  I couldn't resist, so I brought a couple (read full article)

Guess What Product High Fructose Corn Syrup Has Wormed Its Way Into?

Howdy! It turns out I was wrong all those times I thought it was the hottest day of the summer because, according my my girl Jeriann, today is supposed to be the hottest yet! We’re talking a heat index of 110 – ahhh!! Are you tired of my (read full article)

Green Surprise Dip

Adapted from Simply in Season, this dip is super quick to make! Ingredients: 1 bunch steamed kale (could also use other greens. I steamed it by adding a bit of water to a large frying pan and stir frying it) 1 C plain yogurt 1 can chickpeas 1/4 C Â (read full article)

The Island-Inspired Salad You’ve Got to Try!

It’s HOT. No it’s not Paris hot. It’s HOT hot! We’re sitting at a 110 degree heat index at the moment, so I figured it was in my best interests to workout in the comfort of my air conditioned living room this afternoon. I pop (read full article)