Pasta Carbonara: A Quick & Easy Pasta Recipe
My Pasta Carbonara Recipe is enriched with Greek Yogurt making it healthy and delicious. It uses mainly staple ingredients meaning that it is a go to recipe that saves me at the end of many busy days.
Read More...Strawberry And White Chocolate Pancakes For J *AND* For His Mom
For my son’s first week of school the plan was to make him some sweet treats that he would totally love. But somehow my own taste buds managed to get in the way. I dreamed up some pancakes stuffed full of his favourite things. Then I got practical and narrowed it down to strawberries and [...]
Read More...Corn and Chipotle Soup Might Help. Will You Make Me Some?
He jogs up the field, a zig, a zag, oops a tumble but then he’s up again and in position. The ball streaks toward his outstretched hands as the crowd goes nuts. Yes! He caught it! A proud parent jumps up and claps. Not me. I was not the proud parent at the Y’s Itty [...]
Read More...My Top Ten BlogHer Food Experiences and Bacony Bread Pudding
I went to high school with a guy who seriously thought he was David Letterman. He forever tarnished Top Ten Lists for me. And yet, when I sat down to write about my time in Atlanta at BlogHer Food a Top Ten List spewed forth. 10) Being filmed cutting a mango. Who’s idea was it [...]
Read More...Tales of a Leftover Chicken Episode I: Soup to Feel Better About the News
I haven’t been feeling great lately. I have bronchitis. Worse. yesterday morning I woke up to disappointing news from my home country. I’m not going to get into the details here because: it’s way too upsetting and I don’t want to ruin your day; it’s very political – I’ll wait until we know each other [...]
Read More...A Korean Stew to Soothe Any Cold (Jaden Hair’s Spicy Korean Tofu Stew)
At Food Blog Forum Orlando last weekend I won an amazing prize: Jaden Hair‘s The Steamy Kitchen: 101 Asian Recipes Simple Enough for Tonight’s Dinner. When I got home my little J came down with a fever and cough. My own followed. I wasn’t in the mood to cook, let alone sample new dishes. Or [...]
Read More...Lasagna: Layer on the Veggies
My father-in-law’s favorite meal strategy is to “use up.” He rummages in the fridge and pulls out anything that requires immediate eating. He evaluates the pile of bits and bobs on the counter, grabs a frying pan and starts cooking. It’s never the same twice but it’s always (surprisingly) delicious. People I’ve asked about the [...]
Read More...Thinking Inside the Box: Sweet Potato Flapjack Tuesday
Today is Pancake Tuesday (a.k.a. Fat Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras). I’m not exactly a religious person and I certainly don’t give up anything for Lent. I do, however, adore an excuse to eat pancakes.
Read More...Candied Ginger Pudding on Food 52
Linguistically Ambiguous Foods is the current Cook the Story theme. I therefore couldn’t resist submitting the ambiguously named Candied Ginger Pudding to the Food 52 Pudding Contest. The title can be interpreted as Candied-Ginger Pudding since the pudding’s flavor is achieved by steeping candied ginger in milk. The title can also be interpreted as Candied [...]
Read More...Unambiguously Baked Baked Potato Soup
I squinted down at the bowlful of white glop in front of me then up at the waitress. I asked, “Where’s the cheese?” “What cheese?” “The cheese! The cheese! How can you have baked potato soup without cheese?” She looked at me like I was nuts. “We don’t put cheese on our baked potatoes so [...]
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