We have all become so bored of quarantine meals.  It was time to make something DIFFERENT for dinner today. We were feeling indifferent with the steady staple of 1) some protein from the freezer or tofu, 2) a vegetable that has been resting in our cold garage that hopefully is not moldy yet.  3) gnocchi/rice/potato… Continue reading

Last Saturday, we invited a few friends over for dinner.   Naturally, we were really excited and planned a fabulous meal – Asian salmon, sticky rice, steamed baby bok choy with garlic sauce.  We even had fantastic kimchi from the Asian store that’s not even remotely close to home, but so good that I drive there… Continue reading

A few days ago, I was scanning Pinterest and saw this recipe. Since then, I could think of nothing else until I made it.  That seems to happen a lot. With a dip in temperature, it wasn’t so daunting to get the oven going again — it really was perfect timing.   Also, we have… Continue reading

Every summer it seems I gravitate to one type of salad, and repeat various versions of it all season long.  Last year, it was watermelon salad, which provided a nice opportunity to use up that huge bag of gochugaru that is hogging up space in the freezer, thank goodness they tasted so good together. The… Continue reading

I made these absolutely fabulous spicy asian chicken wings for a Super Bowl party this last Sunday.  Keeping in mind that Super Bowl foods fall into 4 categories:  chili, finger foods, dips or chicken wings, right? They were spicy, not in the traditional way that burn your lips, and have you reaching for something cold… Continue reading

I didn’t plan to share this Mexican inspired Bean Dip with you today. Didn’t plan to have it for dinner either. We normally eat dinner foods not appetizers at that time of day. But Summer does that to us. It throws all the dinner rules out the window. Life slows down and relaxes a bit…. Continue reading