Last post I talked about all the fun things I like to look at in my local Mexican grocery store, and sweet limes are one of them. I saw them in the produce bin and at first I thought they were lemons, until I...
Yesterday I went on a little walk over to the local Mexican grocery store, Palms Super Market, just to look around. They always have a lot of fresh exotic produce and I enjoy spending close to an hour walking about the store, looking at...
Good news everyone, yesterday was my birthday, YAY!!!! I wanted to make myself a cake that would be fun, but still pretty. So I decided to make a cake with taro powder and do a really fancy job with the icing. I saw the...
This recipe is based off of one that my mom makes that I absolutely love. She uses beef instead of Irish banger sausages, but the sausages were on sale after St. Patrick’s Day and the beef wasn’t, so….sausage it was! I changed it a...
Yes folks, another post with avocados. They were on sale for $1 each when I decided to make the avocado fries, so I picked up another one with the hope of making some sort of salad with it. I’m trying to eat healthier, which...
A few weeks ago I went to an improv comedy show with my friend Alana, and afterwards we stopped at a little Irish pub in downtown LA for a bite. We were very intrigued by the listing of ‘avocado fries’ on the menu, and...
A couple weeks ago I was invited to a Super Bowl party and I wanted to bring something sweet and southern, so I decided to try making a lemon meringue pie, but with a bit of lavender cooked into the filling. If you remember,...
It’s been well over a week since my last post, and that’s because Jeremy and I went on a trip to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia for our five-year anniversary. We had a great time, and had originally only planned on being there for...
I am slightly obsessed with the animated television series King of the Hill, where Peggy Hill makes frito pie on a frequent basis and brags regularly about the quality of her frito pie recipe. I had never had frito pie, nor did I even...
I recently made this tart for a Christmas party my friends and I had while I was back home in Oregon for the holidays. I’d never made anything with brown butter before, nor had I ever tried my hand at “browning” butter, but it...
About a year and a half ago I was driving up from Los Angeles to Portland and I stopped in Eugene for the night because my brother attends the University of Oregon there. The next day we skipped breakfast and went out for an...
