Two women of color sharing our love of food, friendship & culture
When Karis and I were new moms; besides running around with little ones, we ate. It was also, dare I say, the beginning of Mark Bittman’s video recipes at the New York Times. This was one of the yummy recipes that we made. These make for an easy midweek meal, brunch, or lunch. Incredibly easy to make delish to boot….
My kids love Crispy Rice with Spicy Tuna that is so popular at Katsuya, our local sushi restaurant. But I am always encouraging them to eat less tuna because of its high level of mercury. On the weekend we enjoy cooking together as a family and I thought we should try to make Crispy Rice with Spicy Salmon. We already…
Buy the Book is a Party Book school fundraiser. It sells out in the first hour the site opens. It consists of a group of women getting together for breakfast and a white elephant style book swap. It is currently hosted by Heidi Taylor, Helen McCusker and Michon Roth. This year we celebrated it’s 12thyear. It is a fabulous event….
We often end up with fruit that is past it’s prime. Your kids passion for apples and peanut butter suddenly waned, the oranges you bought for a cocktail got overlooked, you bought plums at the farmers market and they were abandoned in the fruit drawer. We especially seem to have this problem with bananas. I only eat bananas if they…
From our previous post you’ll remember that our theme from our Gourmet Club was Aphrodisiac. I decided to turbo charge on the aphrodisiac content with salt block seared Thai Scallops. Easy and simple and what better way to use the salt block that was gifted to me so many years ago? From Aphrodite’s not so humble beginnings; she made her…
This February our theme for Gourmet Club was Aphrodisiac foods. My category was appetizer. With all this cold weather I decided to make a soup. When we think of aphrodisiacs the obvious go tos are chocolate or oysters. But I decided to dig a little deeper and find some other options. And celery soup was the winner. The soup was simple,…
