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Peach and Berry Trifle
a great way to serve dessert this summer, and NOT add any heat to the kitchen ~ i used a combo of raspberries, blackberries and blueberries with the peaches and strawberries. also used my angel-food cake ~ enjoy! v 4 peaches, halved, pitted, cut into 1/2-inch pieces or thinly sliced 2 1-pint baskets strawberries,…
corn and green chile tortitas with grilled tomatillo cilantro sauce
all moved in ~ trying to make the new house “home”… i confess that i am just not feeling it. where do i put this picture? where do i place this memento? how do i hang curtains when i’ve broken 3 drill bits trying to drill in these 80 year old walls? so i stack…
Food from Friends ~ French Edition
By now, those of you who are actually reading this little blog of mine, know I am some how affiliated with our US military ~ Tony and I married 23 years ago, and 22 years ago this June will mark his anniversary of joining our US Air Force. As Mom and Dad reminded me…
Bitter-Sweet
In Italy, there’s this drink called Bitter (pronounced ‘beet-air’).And boy, they’re not joking around.It is very bitter, and used as a digestive.I’m not sure if it works, but Italians, Sicilians especially, love to serve it after a meal.And Italians, Sicilians especially, don’t like to be told no when it comes to any part of a…
Option B ~ this one is for me!
I don’t eat a whole lot of meat ~ In fact, I can’t remember the last time ~ certainly WAY before P90X2, 49 days ago! Crispy Tofu Triangles with Asian Dipping Sauce Recipe from The Whole Family Cookbook, by Michelle Stern Makes 4 to 6 servings For the Crispy Tofu: 2 packages extra-firm tofu, preferably organic…
Mmmm… coffee
Mmmm… coffee.
Mmmm… coffee
Today marks day 46 ~ 46 days of no sugar, no caffeine, lots of working out and a grilled taco at every meal. Ok, the grilled taco thing is a slight exaggeration, but really, 46 days of no sugar, no caffeine? Today I have decided to put the kibosh on my hiatus from that dark,…
Originally posted on hungry sofia:
It’s always strange to me when I see flan listed as special on a dessert menu. Far from specialized in Cuban restaurants, it’s not rare to find an all-flan menu – de leche, de queso, de calabaza, de mamey and of course – de coco. Yet somehow I never get…
roasted butternut squash and poblano risotto
risotto is almost done ~
it’s summer!
it’s the summer. at least, it’s mostly summer. i did happen to wake up this morning to dreary skies (but i’m praying this means rain!). the weather may not be the warmest yet, but inside i feel all cozy anticipation about the endless possibilities of this season. still being in school, i measure my life…
love notes…from the kitchen ~
as I’ve mentioned before, the life of the military family is filled with change ~ last year, we said goodbye to an amazing woman, Julia Hoeschler, and she said hello to the exotic world of Turkey! Reading her blog, I feel as though I am walking through the narrow aisles of the markets, buying the…
delectablediction 