All Recipes

Ginger Apricot Chicken Breasts

Prepared in under 30 minutes, this dish is easy to prepare, easy on the budget and very easy on your waistline.  It’s also easy to customize to your particular taste....

Spicy Chipotle Steaks

If you haven't tried chipotle peppers this is a great dish to get you acquainted with them.  Chipotles are smoked jalapeno peppers and are most commonly found canned in...

Lacquered Turkey Rice Bowl

Turkey is like Rodney Dangerfield; much loved but it gets no respect.  It's the champion of the bland and neutral.    Even when it gets its day to shine the poor bird...

Strawberry-Mango Salsa with Cinnamon Crisps

News flash...salsa isn't just for tomatoes and peppers. After dinner, try putting a big bowl of Strawberry-Mango Salsa out with some of these simple, easy and virtually...

Asparagus and Shiitake Mushroom Noodle Bowl

No matter what the cuisine, noodle soups are always comforting.  Inspired by a dish I always get at a little Thai restaurant around the corner from my office, this is...

Quick & Easy Stir-Fry Suppers

American and European stovetops are designed for flat bottom pots and pans, not the curved bottoms of Chinese woks. So in order to achieve a perfect stir-fry, ditch the...

Spring Pea Oven Risotto

This classic Italian rice dish usually takes anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour to prepare and requires you to stir it the entire time.  With a few modifications I...

What is the Perfect Brownie?

When it comes to brownies, people have very  definite opinions on what perfection looks like. In my family, it would have a moist, almost underdone texture, is full of...

Lyle's Golden Syrup Marshmallows

While visiting the Ferry Building last Saturday with our friend Laurie, we stopped in Recchiuti Confections to get a few pieces of amazing chocolates and candies. I...

Pretzel Croissants - aka Brezenhörnchen

Great Moments in Food When tasty things take me by surprise! At the Munich train station (hauptbahnhof) is a bakery catering to morning commuters and tourists.  I didn't...

Aebleskivers

The other day when I was out walking the dogs I came across a yard sale. Not one to get suckered into buying someone's junk, I typically glance quickly around from the...

Peanut Butter and Banana Smoothie

Tell Your Local Cow To Hit The Road!

There is life after dairy and I'm going to show you how! I'm building a website for everyone who's given up eating dairy, for whatever reason.  We'll be up and running...

Chocolate Silk

One of the hardest things about going dairy-free is you end up constantly comparing what you're eating with it's dairy counterpart.  Sometimes it's better than the...

Pumpkin “Cheese”cake Tart

I was getting a little tired of traditional pumpkin pie and wanted to do something a little more "elegant." My first thought was a tart, since that always seems a little...

Lemon Blueberry Pancakes

If you want to make me happy, serve me pancakes.  It doesn't matter what time of day it is, I'm always in the mood for a plate piled high and dripping with syrup. One of...

Almond Milk Pudding with Bourbon Vanilla Bean Syrup

Even after switching to soy milk a number of years ago, I still can't say I'm totally in love with it.  I long for the days when things didn't have that 'toasted...

Gingerbread Apple Butter Pancakes

I always looked forward to the first cold day of fall.  Not because of the leaves turning because that always meant hours of raking them after they fell. It was because...