I’ve been on a Korean cuisine kick lately. I think it has a lot to do with living near an HMart– we’ve been buying lots of ingredients to make Korean recipes, with delicious success. It also helps that the salespeople often offer free samples while shopping so that you can try before you buy.
I don’t [...]

Read Full Post »

It’s been a recent tradition of mine to usher in the spring with a colorful salad. The niçoise salad is one of my favorites (a poetic recipe can be found here), so when I saw a version on Bellini Valli’s site, more than burnt toast, I knew I had to make it.
Some changes I made:
1. [...]

Read Full Post »

prep time-  5 minutes;  cook time-  35 minutes;  serves 6
For those of you who prefer your tuna French-Asian fusion style instead of marinated, the following offering from neighbor Dragonia will serve you well.  Now if I can just get her to fork over her mac & cheese recipe…

2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
10 [...]

Read Full Post »

serves ???
Another of the Empress’ perennial crowd-pleasers;  she says she got it out of “some magazine or another”, and forgets which one.  She and I have been known to go through the quantity produced by this recipe together in one sitting.  As part of a spread with other appetizers, however, it can go quite a [...]

Read Full Post »

Iris got this from an employee of hers.  “It’s fast, cheap and good!” she says (adding with a sarcastic grin, “Much like me!”)   She also says with absolutely no hesitation that it’s much much better than the Empress’ Caesar Salad dressing. I don’t necessarily agree with that, but I’ll be damned if I’m going pass [...]

Read Full Post »