My batting average for the weekend was .333. Which I guess is ok if you’re talking about baseball stats, but it’s a disappointing stat for recipe development in my house. When I try some thing new, and test it on the family, I shoot for 3 out of the 4 of us giving it a [...]
Do you remember the old cartoons where someone would smell something incredibly delicious and his body would float in the air, following the scent? That’s how my husband is about Indian food. When our old neighbors, who are Pakistani-American, moved in, the days that Kishwar cooked traditional foods, the smells that would come wafting over [...]
The last post about Italian White Truffles was all a bit of fluff…Seriously, I really doubt I ever make anything with a whole White Truffle again. As Spencer said, “I don’t care how much it costs…it’s still just a fungus!” (that’s why he didn’t come to the truffle party!) However, I got bottle of White [...]
An “olio” is a hodgepodge…a miscellaneous collection. I couldn’t bear to post just one side dish, so I am presenting two. But two totally unrelated side dishes. The first, Stuffed Mini-Peppers, I thought of after buying a bag of those cute multi-colored baby peppers for a holiday buffet. They make a nice accent to a [...]
I’ve never really concerned myself with the “Meatless Mondays“, trend that seems to have swept the blogosphere. I guess because I try and plan more than just one day a week for us to eat vegetarian. Especially right after the holidays, everyone’s ready to take a bit of a break from meat for a few [...]
Last Friday I had a girl’s night out with my talented artist friend, Sarah Moore. We decided to go out for a drink and a quick bite to eat before catching the new Bond movie on opening night. Sarah suggested the local Pasadena wine bar, Bodega. We each picked something from the tapas menu to [...]
