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Cooking Cauliflower: A Culinary Chef d’Ouevre

In my mind, cauliflower never ranked on the culinary wheel. There were more interesting vegetables to eat and cook. It wasn’t until I was on one of my frequent Napa Valley trips and dined at Ubuntu that I discovered how delicious cauliflower could be. At that time, Chef Jeremy Fox created a dish that put the […]

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Making Bread: Unfortunately, not the Green Kind…but Tasty.

I love simplicity.”Keep it simple”, I say to myself constantly. (I try remembering that phrase in everything I do.) I’ve realized that when something becomes too complicated akin to putting together a piece of furniture from Ikea, I believe it’s either not meant to be or you need to stop, look at the process and […]

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An Embarrassing Confessional: Whipped Cream

 During the seventies, which is when I was growing up, it was difficult to be single mother in the workforce. Alas, I didn’t grow up eating a lot of home-cooked meals such as Alice prepared for the Brady family. It was usually stuff opened from a can and heated such as Campbell’s beans with boiled […]

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Miami’s Cuban Food Recreation in Los Angeles

I don’t know a lot about Cuban food. I do know that much of originated from the Canary Islands and Spain, just like most of Latin America. With that said, Nick wanted to make something called “mojo” (prounounced “mo-ho” not “mo-jo” which is an Austin Powers act, just to be clear). It’s a very popular […]

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How I Go About Cooking

When I want to make something to eat, I first think about what I have in my fridge that will make something decent to eat. I will start perusing recipes thinking to myself what do I want to make and how should it be made? I visit such sites like Cookstar, Foodily and Yummily, ascertaining […]

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Thinking of Christmas in July: Grilled Meats in Buenos Aires

Thinking of Christmas in July: Grilled Meats in Buenos Aires.

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Thinking of Christmas in July: Grilled Meats in Buenos Aires

My birthday always happens near Christmas. It’s not that I’m complaining. People are in a full celebratory mode at that time. Wine and liquor flow freely. It’s just that it’s never warm that warm around this the holidays plus taking a tropical vacation at that time is incredibly expensive since it’s traditionally high season for the airlines and […]

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Los Angeles Surprises & Garden Fresh Gazpacho

Los Angeles is not known for trains or gardens. Normally, the Land of Pretty People is thought of as a place of vast asphalt and traffic jams. Where a minor fender-bender can result in a manslaughter charge. Tonight though,  Lulu, Don and I were going to high-tail it on three trains to get to Highland Park, […]

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Yucatan Chicken Dinner Party with Mark and Mary

Being a single person, I admit that I like cooking for myself. I don’t have to worry about someone saying, “That’s too much of this!” or “Don’t put that in!”. I really enjoy the freedom of not hearing another voice. First, I have more voices in my head then Sybil and, second, I think if […]

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Dinner at Shelley’s & Hanging in the Kitchen: Pork and Apple Meatball Submarines,

It’s been a little bit of time since I posted. Writing a blog is time consuming and I was trying to do three a week. I think two a week is a little more manageable plus cooking, working, hanging with my homies, and writing. I have a full life. As life goes on, as it […]

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