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)

Cheesy Garden Stuffed Peppers --Pimientos Rellenos "Jardin con Queso""Mmm...I Love Sour Cream"Well, today I decided to make one of Hubby J. favorites. Let me tell you what happened. Ok. Last weekend, while I was doing a marathon of domestic chores (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)

Burger & Fries – With a Twist!

I am LOVING the guest post submissions on your best vacation ever! Keep ‘em coming and remember that you don’t need to have a blog to submit a post, and your vacation didn’t need to be out of the country to count. We wanna hear why (read full article)

Cross Country Road Trip: San Diego to Boston (with food highlights)

My family hangs out in Boston’s South Shore every summer for a few weeks, and this year we thought that *driving* from San Diego to Boston might be fun. Here was our route: We stuffed our car with the essentials (clothes, beach gear, cooking s (read full article)

Persia’s Just a Stone’s Throw from Brazil

…at least it is in Hollywood.  Enter Bossa Nova Brazilian restaurant and Mashti Malone’s ice cream. For a dinner with my lovely cousin Chrissy, we went to one of those restaurants that I always dive by but have never actually been to.  (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)

Marshmallow Chocolate Pie

I bet that by the end of Ramadan, Ramadan treats section will be full of recipes .. or maybe overflowed! In my personal dictionary, fasting means craving for sweets, chocolate, desserts and anything contains a lot of sugar .. Originally, Ramadan is (read full article)

BBQ Margarita Glazed Pork Chops Recipe

Margarita Glazed Pork Chops Ingredients 1/3 C. orange marmalade 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped 2 T. tequila or lime juice 1 tsp. grated fresh ginger or 1/2 tsp. ground ginger 4 boneless pork loin chops, cut 1-inch thick (about 1 1/2 lb (read full article)

The Mad Apple

I love eggplants. For as far as I can remember, I've always eaten these vegetable-fruits, they were part of my family's culinary landscape. Both my parents have their eggplant repertoire: stuffed and fried; sliced in a fan and roasted; pickled; in sa (read full article)

Okra Saute’

This side dish from Simply in Season is super quick tastes like summer. Ingredients: 4 C okra (cleaned and trimmed, I sliced mine) 1 large onion (sliced) 2 sweet peppers (chopped) 1 chili pepper (seeded and sliced) 2 large tomatoes (diced) salt to (read full article)

Veggin’ Cookbook Chronicles: Stuffed Potatoes

I’d like to take you on a little journey. A little journey through The “New Age Vegetarian Cookbook” printed in 1980 by The Rosicrucian Fellowship out of Oceanside, California. Sit back, relax and enjoy the ride as this cookbook i (read full article)

Kind of Excited for Fall?

Happy Saturday! My Mom and I woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed, and headed off to the Farmer’s Market for the morning! The week long heat wave seems to have FINALLY passed, and a thick layer of clouds helped it almost feel like an earl (read full article)

Tuscan street food

Image © AT Casa I wrote a post on Panelle some time ago, providing the recipe for the typical Sicilian street food fritter made with chickpea flour.But I had completely forgotten about Cecina! During a recent weekend escape in Lunigiana, I was p (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)

wild mushroom pierogies

So it’s that time of the month again. Another Daring Cook’s challenge. For August the spotlight is on the humble pierogi – a Polish sweet or savoury crescent-shaped dumpling. A selection of traditional fillings (potato, meat and ca (read full article)

Rellenong Bangus (Stuffed Milk Fish)

 Cooking Ingredients:1 big bangus (milkfish)3 cloves of garlic, minced 1 onion chopped2 tomatoes, diced1 egg1/4 cup lemon juice1 small carrot, finely chopped1/4 cup soy sauce4 tablespoons of cooking oilham, finely choppedraisinscooked peassalt a (read full article)

Stuffed Marconi Peppers - Mexi Style

The season of peppers.  Sweet, spicy, large and small.  From country to country each nation has a unique way of preparing them.  Salsas, relishes, stuffed, roasted or fried... I can't get enough of them during the hottest month of our summer.  Ho (read full article)

Dusseldorf: More Than Beer and Pretzels

It is true that its altstadt is considered the longest bar in the world and its beers are some of the finest.It is true that people were drinking ginormous mugs of beer glistening like gold in the early morning sun for breakfast.But it is more, much (read full article)

Weekend Food Tour: Chikurin Tei Japanese Restaurant

Last winter (January, 2010), my husband and I had the chance to experience Spring Resort Hotel in Xinbeitou in Beitou District in Taipei. Beitou is well-known to its hot springs in Northern Taiwan.  Part of the pack (read full article)