Although San Diego is typically in a state of perma-spring weather we can’t help but get excited when the flowers start blooming and the hillsides look just a little greener and brighter in March. Dave and I actually moved to San Diego in March, and we drove cross-country from Michigan,…
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Side Dish
Cauliflower: the controversial vegetable. For cruciferous lovers, it is a sweet and tender vegetable delicacy. For haters it is a pungent and pallid atrocity. (To the haters: this recipe might make you change your minds). I haven’t always been so fortunate as to appreciate the merits of cauliflower. But in…
Oh hey there. Let’s talk salad. Because it’s been a while. (And, let’s be real, my waistline is still recovering after those Mudslide Brownie Bites….) This Burmese Tea Leaf Salad might need to be your next exotic culinary adventure. And believe you me, it is very much worth it. For…
I fell in love with homemade buttermilk ranch when I was a kid growing up in Portage, Michigan. We had this little restaurant we would go to regularly called Murch’s, which sadly went out of business and is now the storefront for a Hallmark store. But back in better days…
I promise I didn’t invent this combo in a bizarre foodie nightmare. I am well aware that this recipe sounds like I may have thrown all my refrigerator leftovers into a pot and called it a recipe. (Although let’s be real- isn’t that how all good recipes/ soups are originally concocted?) But…
If you are also feeling like you doubled your body weight in the last 1-2 weeks, you might also like to join the January “let’s only eat salads” club. But if you are also feeling like extreme deprivation (i.e. kale smoothies) is not quite what the doctor ordered, I’d definitely you…
So after eating so much gingerbread cake I felt the need to have something healthy in my life this December. I.e. a plate of fish and lentils. How much healthier can it get? If you say a plate of kale with chia seeds you are henceforth banned from The Gourmet…
So is anyone else obsessed with the speakeasy bar trend these days? Maybe I am just too hipster for words, which is why I am frequenting so many of them. (Which begs the question: if I admit to being a histper does that negate my hipster status and render me…
Is it horrible that I am pre-eating for Thanksgiving? In my recent indoctrination to food blogging culture, it has not escaped my notice that food bloggers have recently been posting Thanksgiving themed recipes all over the internet at an alarming rate. While still somewhat a newbie, I assume that I must not…
The previously hyped roasted broccolini is finally here! If anything gets my heart aflutter is is most certainly these roasted beauties. Confession: I am not used to craving things that are not caffeinated or sugary and I am not sure what to do with myself. My body and brain are so…