This weekend flew by like most of the others.  Aside for a fun evening spent with friends in San Francisco Saturday night, I spent most of my time at home focused on a fun, blog-related project (details coming soon) and the rest in the kitchen.  I should really consider setting up a bed next to my stove.  Some weekends it feels like I don’t do much else but cook.
This is not a complaint, mind you. ...

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One of the things I appreciate about my childhood is the freedom my parents gave me to be adventurous in restaurants.  They were always of the mind that if my sisters and I were curious to try something from a menu, we should.  It allowed me, in a small way, to make my own food discoveries at a young age even if the experience at the time may not have always been pleasant.
Having been raised ...

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This healthy, flavorful dish is completely unlike all the rich foods I’ve indulged in all week.  It’s as if a switch turned on inside me, sparking an insatiable hunger for only rich, heavy foods.  In short, I’ve been an eating machine.  I made a large batch of chicken adobo earlier this week and I’ve enjoyed it every night with mountains of jasmine rice.  During lunch, I’ve eschewed salads altogether.  Instead, I’ve feasted on buttery pasta and ...

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Take me to a Mexican restaurant and 90% of the time, I will order enchiladas.  Ground beef or carnitas are my fillings of choice.  At home, I use a ground turkey filling seasoned with cumin and chili powder, always.  This alone should disqualify me from being classified as a foodie–with certain foods, I am most definitely a creature of habit.
 
For a change, I embraced spontaneity this week.  My refrigerator is bursting with extra ingredients from ...

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One of my favorite things about Spring is that it means the start of the tomato-growing season.  I haven’t always been a gardener–in fact, my gardening repertoire is currently limited to growing tomatoes, herbs and peppers.  I plan to change this soon; my husband and I have been researching greenhouses to see if owning one would work for us.  Until then, I will have to contend with the deer who roam about our yard and ...

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