Imagine a cake that has only two ingredients, requires no cooking, is gluten-free and sugar-free (if you want it that way), is ready in about 30 minutes, and makes an impressive “pow” of an appearance at any summer barbeque or picnic. Yes, it’s possible… in the form of this no-bake summer watermelon cake. If you’re […]
Cooking With Olive Oil
Olive oil: It’s one of the oldest and most widely used foods in the world, except most people’s knowledge of this flavorful oil probably only scratches the surface of its potential uses. Enter Cooking Techniques and Recipes With Olive Oil, the new gold-medal-winning cookbook by the “Two Extra Virgins,” Laura Bashar of Family Spice and […]
Fresh Carrots and Easy Coconut Carrot Soup
Have you ever picked carrots? If you have fresh beautiful carrots, you’re going to want this delicious Coconut Carrot Soup. Let’s start with the fresh carrots. Carrots are some of the most fun vegetables to harvest. Part of it is the mystery of what you’re going to pull up… Underneath the leafy green stalks, what […]
“Chef” Movie Is a Fun and Delicious Treat
Do you love food, cooking, kids in the kitchen, and/or Twitter? You’re going to love this Chef movie starring, written, and directed by Jon Favreau. “Chef” tells the story of Chef Carl Casper. Casper loses his job after disagreeing with the owner of the restaurant about which direction the menu should take. (Chef wants groundbreaking […]
Follow Your Heart Vegan Cheese
We’re not vegans in our house and we love just about every kind of cheese. That means we’re not the most likely candidates to go out and eat vegan cheese. But when we recently had an opportunity to sample Follow Your Heart’s Vegan Gourmet vegan cheese, curiosity got the best of us. We decided to […]
Beyond Dodger Dogs with New Dodger Food
It’s baseball season again, which means it’s time for hot dogs, peanuts, and…nachos in a batting helmet? Yep, it’s time once again for new Dodger food. It’s true; we love our Dodgers, and we love our amazingly varied Dodger stadium food almost as much. We’ve already spent some time behind the scenes at Dodger Stadium […]
Best Grilled Cheese Ever
Grilled cheese is staple of home kitchens and kids’ menus everywhere. It’s truly one of those things you can make on auto-pilot. But after years of making the same-old, same-old, maybe it’s time for a little fine-tuning. So just in time for Grilled Cheese Month, we’ve got some expert tips to get you from mediocre […]