{recipe} Spicy Thai Noodle Bowl for One
Ah, that elusive concept known as “healthy lunch.” Despite my best intentions I find that in the middle of the day it’s hard for me to resist the charms of foods like pizza with...
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{recipe} My Favorite Crab Cakes
After a dungeness crab feast at my parents’ house, I was blessed with the hard-won fruits of my cracking labors in the form of about a cup and a half of fresh lump crab...
{recipe} Sauteed Potatoes with Green Garlic and Fresh Horseradish
I went to the fancy Ferry Building Farmers’ Market today- usually I go for the lower key, lower priced Alemany Market so it was a welcome change of scenery. I picked up a few...
{recipe} Coconut-Kissed Banana Bread
I love banana bread, but sometimes it’s a little ho-hum. I spiced this one up by incorporating coconut milk and fresh ginger, which add moistness as well as a subtle but delicious flavor. I...
{recipe} Vietnamesque Seared Ahi Salad
I bought some fresh ahi tuna yesterday and envisioned searing it and serving it over some tasty Asian noodles, but that didn’t happen. We wanted to eat a light dinner tonight because we’re going...
{recipes} Spaghetti Carbonara Taste Test: aka Carbonara vs. Not Carbonara
The other day I threw out a status update asking what to make for dinner, and my friend Sarah from San Diego suggested that a chilly winter’s night merited a warm bowl of spaghetti...
{recipe} Sweet Arborio Rice Pudding
I have never been a big fan of rice pudding, but I do love risotto. When I worked at Rose Pistola we made a rice pudding with Arborio rice that utilized the same technique...
{restaurants} Foraging for Food in Harbin, China
Oddly enough, there are basically no resources I could find on the web or in a book or really ANYWHERE about where and what to eat in Harbin, China. Being home to the fabulous...
{laugh} Ham for Chanukah?
This is one of my favorite photo from the internets that I would like to share on this, the first day of Hanukkah! A blogger saw this in Manhattan a couple years ago, and Neatorama picked...
{ligers} Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin, China
I was never really truly sure that ligers were real- it seemed like the kind of thing that gullible me would believe in and then later learn I had been hoodwinked and feel stupid...
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