the best laid plans

Unless you’re seriously protesting the 2008 Olympics and refusing to even look at a newspaper/navigate to any news website/flip on the radio/or your television excludes NBC from your channel surfing lineup/or you don’t have a television and you don’t go to sports bars or belong to a gym, you’ve by now seen the finish of [...]

It’s cooling down in here in Northern California, so tonight I’ve decided to spice things up a bit. One of my favorite dinner staples is fresh halibut tacos. Luckily, I live next to Whole Foods Market and Alaskan halibut seems to be their specialty 24/7. But that still doesn’t beat the first time I had [...]

So, I have to premise this one; I am a cinnamon roll fanatic. I have made many batches from many different books, online sources, and past down recipes… I have tried many different kinds at almost every coffee shop I’ve found. With all of that in mind, I believe this recipe is the best in [...]

Yesterday it was so hot outside, that for dinner I thought I’d make my first official summertime meal. It’s a shrimp and scallop pasta, and it was even better than I thought it was going to be. Lane wouldn’t stop sneaking back into the kitchen to munch on more of this delicious summer dish. Ingredients [...]

De-mystifying crème brulee is something everyone always asks me to do when it comes to dessert. This delicacy has always been placed on a pedestal above uber complicated cakes and creams. Once I heard that you can judge a restaurant from its crème brulee. I actually hear questions regarding the complicity of making this dessert [...]

Whenever I bake, I seem to draw in a crowd. Sometimes it’s friends, neighbors, most of the time it’s my roommates who come into the kitchen drawn by the aroma of fresh baked bread. When I was younger, my mother (a mother of five) would bake gobs of pies, loaf after loaf of bread, and [...]

This key lime pie is famous. It has been on the radio, and if you make it for a party, you’ll have people you don’t know congratulation you on such a wonderful pie. They’ll like it so much, they’ll want to take their picture with you; you’ll never hear the end of the delicious key [...]

Growing up in Alaska taught me a lot of things, but one very important lesson was to appreciate salmon. My family and I never took advantage of the opportunity to have salmon for dinner, but I didn’t start to understand the importance of the fish until recently, when I went to Whole Foods Market and [...]

The other day I was down at our local organic foods grocery store. I was on a mission to purchase some avocados to transform into guacamole on a hot California day. Well, I have to admit, I was swayed by the impressive marketing of this attractive organic mecca… and I purchased their brand pre-made guacamole. [...]

I know that I just commented on the air being way too thick for me, but I found this recipe and thought it was essential to summertime survival. There’s no better comfort food than soup. We eat it when we’re sick, when we’re sad, when we get together with our difficult families for holiday dinners… [...]