Tossed Green Salad with Peanut Dressing

There’s nothing quite like diving into crisp salad greens with crunch fresh vegetables. Just like my friend likes to say, “Sometimes I could use a good walk and a nice salad.” This salad was a quick dinner using several bits and pieces found in my fridge from recipes past. I’m a huge fan of chicken [...]

Sweet & Tangy Cucumbers

If I see yet another flake of snow this year, I’m going to scream. Pittsburgh was hit pretty hard with several major snow storms and it has been months since I’ve seen something other than white in my front yard. Even Sophie is over it. With the official day of spring just around the corner, [...]

Hello Toronto

I awoke this morning at 7:00 am to the sweet sounds of birds chirping out the windows of my Toronto accommodations.  Even as my dainty fingers danced across my keyboard to write this post, a squirrel began nibbling away tiny morsels of the green maple leaves from a tree located along my quiet Canadian street.  [...]

Crab Rangoon – The Four “F’s” of Failure

I have something really important to say that has been eating me up inside for weeks.  If I don’t share it with the world soon, I just might explode like the three Easter Peep’s I “accidently” left in the microwave. I have a weakness for Chinese buffets. Insert heavy gasping and moaning here. Don’t ask [...]

Hoisin Pork Stir-fry with Egg Noodles

Ever have one of those days when you open the refrigerator and realize you have a random jar of sauce from a recipe gone by?  That’s what happened to me when I noticed a jar of Hoisin sauce in a dark corner of my refrigerator.  The remaining amount was so small; there was no way [...]

Asian Green Bean Salad

For the first time ever, I have a proper guest room.  There is no desk in the corner.  There aren’t even spare clothes in the closet.  There’s just a bed with clean sheets, a rocking chair and a bookshelf with an extensive collection of reading material.  It’s amazing how few times I have actually stepped [...]

Spicy Orange Pork

One of the favorite components of this food blog is how effortless everything looks.  When in reality, many of my recipes are a result of significant research, shopping and multiple rounds of testing.  This one is no exception.  All of the former versions were great, but didn’t quite hit my standards for flavor.  It wasn’t [...]