I really, really, really, want to love beets. They are one of the most beautiful vegetables to serve. They are easy to grow and they are nutritious too. Mostly they just taste like dirt to me. I know, I should call them earthy tasting, dirt is not appetizing. That’s my reality though. I think my […]
Usually a dish just names itself but I’m afraid that this little condiment/sauce suffers from an identity crisis. It looks like gremolata/pesto/chimichurri, it possesses some of the elements of all. However it is not of Italian decent yet it is of Italian influence. I guess I could describe this as truly a fusion. Thai basil, […]
For the longest time I had a dislike for cream sauce, it seemed as if it was used to cover up food that no child in their right mind would like. Lutefisk and peas in my case. Now put some cheese in the white sauce and it was a whole different ball game, but I […]
How do I get myself involved in stuff? It’s not that I just can’t say no (although that is true), there truly are forces projecting me into projects, ideas, concepts, improving the community and getting my crazy on. Not even a full month into the year, I have ignored my Confucius Summer dog, who advised […]
Let’s just say, it’s no secret to Mariel and Mary Ann that I’m a big fan of theirs. I started following Feast on the Cheap when they were just a baby blog 😉 As a point of interest, it was their blog where I first heard about Secret Recipe Club! Ahh-yup, my very first […]
Finally! Seriously, I was beginning to wonder if it would ever happen but it did, I was finally assigned Deb’s blog: Eliot’s Eats. I actually started reading Deb’s blog because of SRC. She got my blog, well, almost 2 years ago; she made me blush with all the nice things she said about my […]
How did I get so lucky? I can’t believe that for the second time in my Secret Recipe Club that I’ve been assigned to Chelsy’s Blog Mangia! I had several recipes ‘secretly pinned’ to try, one of them was non-food but a 3-ingredient Coconut body scrub (first I need to find coconut sugar), and I […]
Life is full of lessons. Some lessons are good and some are bad. Sometimes the bad ends up being for the best because you make the best out of a bad situation. Despite careful planning, things don’t always work out as expected. Actually it seems like the more carefully I plan the more likely my […]
I did it. I done did it. Have you ever made a decision, a commitment and wondered “what the hell have I got myself into”? As my time drew near to opening the café I was asking myself that very question. Oh why do I jump in with both feet? I mean this is work! It’s […]
Already I’m feeling like I’m starting the new year a bit disorganized, in the month of January I have two major life events happening, one of which I can’t speak freely about till it’s done and the other, well it’s either going to rock my world or destroy it, so I’m hanging on to that […]
