Recipes

The recipe that wasn’t ready yesterday is now here. When I ask my daughter what she wants to eat for dinner, the answer is invariably shrimp, shrimp, or shrimp. Shrimp is exciting. I cook it a

I don’t know about you but when I travel I tend to eat fewer fruits and vegetables. The fast-food choices in touristy places are usually not the greatest and I tend to justify my indulgences

Youpi for Microsoft Word. I have it back on my computer! I’ve been without it for four months so I’ve been typing posts directly on the blog. I’ve missed the red squiggles alarming me of

The week is almost over. It’s been a hectic but wonderful one. So many things happened: I did and redid homework, graded quizzes, wrapped presents, exchanged presents, met with friends, cooked pasta, baked muffins, and even mentally

It was a Sunday afternoon, last Sunday afternoon. We shopped, then shopped some more. My mother splurged on presents for the children in the family the way only a grandmother does. We came home, made

Every time I walk by an olive tree I have mean, impure thoughts like cold pressing its olives into olive oil, smothering them in a marinade, crushing them into a tapenade, or using them to slingshot birds. Then

Fennel just seems like it was made for Fennel Hummus. Sure, fennel is great in many other dishes but in my mind, the two go together. They both evoke rolling hills studded with olive groves under the

So it’s been 2 years, 344 posts, 4457 comments. And I am celebrating. Will you join me? Little did I know when I started this blog two years ago that it would become such an important

You’ll laugh—or at least smile—if I told you I have always called this drink jus d’avocat (avocado juice) instead of Avocado Smoothie. I only started officially calling it a smoothie after a coworker ingenuously thought I had passed the

Whenever anything almond crusted like Almond-Crusted Chicken is featured on a restaurant menu, I am sure to order it. It’s that amazingly buttery almond taste combined with the crunchy texture that does it for me time after time, after