All posts filed under: Food

Food: Recipe For Hot Summer Nights – Watermelon Salad

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Over the miserably hot weekend, where I “chored” my days away rather than simply enjoy, I had no appetite. The temperatures were in the 90’s by 7:00 a.m. and too hot to feel hungry enough for this San Franciscan spoiled rotten by  temperatures reaching only ‘coastal’ 60’s or less. So you know what I did. I ate mostly watermelon with salty Cotija cheese for lack of good goat cheese or Feta, and then I found this recipe today. Which made me laugh – since its based on my Mediterranean upbringing.

Food: Honey and Brie

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Honey is something I hated most of my life. I suppose it’s because my mother forced it down my throat when I was young, every morning, to get my day started. It was  old-world traditions. Until one day, while at work trying to add sugar to my cup of tea, and discovering there wasn’t any, I turned to Honey to sweeten the drink and discovered just how much I loved it on oatmeal, over a cheesy spread, with figs, drizzled over prosciutto, and too many other ideas to list here, except this: 

Food: Nutella Mousse Brownie Bites – What?

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I think this is by far the strangest post you’ll see on my blog, where I share with all of you a recipe I found here, and then try to talk myself out of downing a dozen or more, since I try to eat healthy at all cost. But, I do have a weakness for Nutella, aaaaand, there are times in a month I need chocolate-cake, brownies, cookies, more chocolate, and then some more, the drizzly kind, and the candy covered ones. So, here it is for those of you who feel my pain, OR simply my type of strange cravings:

How To Recycle Jam Jars

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I buy these jams in abundance, and spread them on freshly baked French bread every Sunday morning, and sit by the window and enjoy breakfast the only day of the week, at a much more slower pace. So, you can imagine my collection of the perfect shaped jars, I know someday I would use for a healthy dessert I’ve been searching for. but haven’t found…until NOW! Chai Seed Pudding – what!!!  

Food: Two Recipes Worth A Try

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This blogger I follow religiously. I guess I appreciate her success more than anything, and her seemingly carefree appearances. I miss that about myself. Anyway, there are two recipes on her site I sort of found myself drooling over, and of course the need to share. One is the Sticky Slow Roast Lamb. I am not a fan of Lamb, so I will turn this recipe into a Sticky slow roast Roast 🙂  for Easter Dinner Next up – Nutella Martini, I am going to serve my guests – not sure if before or after the roast. I usually consider such a cocktail a replacement for dessert. What are you having for Easter supper?

Food: Cake and More Cake

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I try to stay away from desserts and all things that may pack on the pounds. But once in a while I crave a slice of lemon cake, or carrot or even a unique flavored one and I simply go to my favorite bakery or grocers and just buy a slice to indulge. It’s worked wonders for me thus far since I don’t over indulge.  But Easter is nearly here, and the idea of Springtime get-together’s is just around the corner – for me and my friends to bring along something homemade to share over tea or coffee and conversations. Here’s a site I love, providing perfect variations for the cake or dessert lover, and those needing to bring a baked good to some happy gathering: