December 2009
21 posts
Have we already talked about how obsessed I am with vegtables? I know we’ve talked about both my new found love for asparagus, and grape tomatoes, but it doesn’t stop there. Oh no! If it’s a vegtable, I love it.
Now I know this is not earth shattering or anything new for that matter. But I think we should all take a time out in our days and recognize how delicious and...
It’s the holiday season, it’s okay to indugle yourself a little more often. Or atleast that is what I’m trying to convice myself. That, and with finals overtaking my life, I deserve a snack every now and then (more now, than then).
Baking also helps destress me, therefore giving me the best excuse ever to whip up some orea truffles the other night. And not just one batch, two...
I hate chocolate cake. I like chocolate, but in small doses. A whole cake of it? Consider me uninterested.
So one day last spring when my friend Laura told me about a chocolate cake her mom made for all family birthdays, I shrugged it off assuming that it couldn’t possibly be that good. And when she disclosed that the secret ingredient was none other than mayonnaise, I will admit I was a...
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I have BIG news!
I have located another precious item to add to the list of mango flavored things that I adore.
Simply Orange juice with Mango
I am convinced that this is the nectar of the gods. Since finding this a little over a week ago, I may have consumed over two bottles full of the stuff. Delicious! Run, don’t walk to your nearest neighborhood grocery store...
One thing I always miss about home is the food. And not just mom’s cooking either, the restaurants as well. One of my favorites, Sonic just opened up a location not far from downtown Chicago. I have already been there two or three times to get my slushie fix. However, one restaurant that is noticeably missing from the fast food scene up here is Chik-fil-a.
Chik-fil-a is not like any other...
I’m always impressed when people make homemade soup. Is it just me, or does that seem particularly hard to master? Except for my one semi-failed attempt at baked potato soup, I have yet to really give it a go.
My mom made me a delicious Italian soup while I was home. She had found the recipe on the internet and gave it a try in order to find something new for dinner one night. What a...
My top adult beverages:
BEER Any kind, any where. I love beer. It’s not a secret. I would prefer beer over almost any other alcoholic beverage. It’s cheap [for the most part] and tasty. Can’t go wrong with that.
Cider My friend introduced me to cider, and I have a lot to thank her for. This sweet drink is a version of ale and beer that gets my taste buds all excited. ...
Over the colder months there is nothing more delicious to me than pumpkin flavored foods and even drinks. Now, I’m not much of a pumpkin pie eater (strange, I know) but there are few other things flavored pumpkin that I don’t like. The obsession isn’t quite full blown mango style, but it’s getting there.
When I was home for Thanksgiving I stopped by Williams Sonoma to...
Once upon a time I was the least adventurous eater in the world. I knew what I liked, and I knew that I hated trying new things. I think it comes from years and years of eating at the same restaurants, and eating the same food that my mother made. It was all so good, why did I need to try new things?
Well in my final years of high school, I got my first job at a restaurant. Prior to...
Do you remember how exciting it was as a kid to have your birthday and bring in treats for you class to celebrate? Even though I was born in June, I got to bring in treats on my half birthday and it was always an ordeal deciding what I wanted to bring.
Now this was the days before it had to be prepackaged food. My mom would always make the best cupcakes or cookies or cake from scratch and I was...
Raise your hand if you actually know how to cut asparagus….
Well if you raised your hand, consider yourself smarter than I. Because aparently I’ve been living under a rock. Or maybe I’ve just never cut aspargus before? Either way, the other day I was dying for some. That was about the time I decided to get adventurous with my grilled chicken, and so I decided to sautee some...
For the two years that I’ve been living by myself and subsequently cooking for myself, I’ve always been super intimidated by cooking meat. There doesn’t seem like much you can do without a grill to me, unless you want to make a casserole of some sort, and even then I don’t really know many recipes for that. However, I love chicken and steak and all sort of meats, that...
I love fried rice. I always assumed it would be easy to make, but I probably couldn’t master it as well as I would like. After all, usually nothing tastes as good as your favorite restaurant’s fried rice. And well my favorite restaurant’s fried rice is so delicious, I didn’t even want to try and compete. The restaurant is called Shogun and is a Japanese steakhouse where...