Foolproof Stovetop Rice You don't need a rice cooker to cook perfect rice each time--here's how to do it. This year I made a personal commitment to try things outside of my comfort zone. Maybe reaching a milestone age some months ago has given me a new perspective on the [quick] passing of ... Read More
Kimchi Fried Rice with Smoked Trout
Kimchi Fried Rice with Smoked Trout Scraps and bits of a handful of ingredients make for the best fried rice. This one uses kimchi, dry smoked trout and my own spicy chili sauce for extra flavor but from minimal effort. It’s been a month and a half since my last post even though I’ve had a ... Read More
Skillet Lemon-Herb Chicken and Rice
Skillet Lemon-Herb Chicken and Rice There's always room in our cooking arsenal for one more one-pot meal. This chicken and rice dish is as flavorful as it is colorful. I don't know when I became so accident-prone. Little mishaps seem to find me lately...or maybe I should call them missteps. ... Read More
Stir-Fried Sausage, Chickpeas and Red Rice
You don't realize how much you miss something until you remove it from your life. In my case, I've decided to eliminate (or limit my consumption of) caffeine, chips, wine and sweets, at least for now. We have a generally healthy diet around here but I do like a salty snack fix once in a ... Read More
Asparagus-Salmon Fried Rice (and Pescadero, CA)
If you read one of my recent posts about wishing for a simpler life, these pictures would illustrate perfectly what I envision doing were I to drop everything and move to the rural coast. It had been a couple of months since my last visit to Pescadero so I tagged along with my husband when ... Read More
Stir-Fried Eggplant with Sambal over Red Rice
This is the kind of meal that I generally don't even consider sharing here, not for its lack of merit but because I wonder if you would be interested in it at all. But somehow when I do share a dish like this that takes mere minutes to put together, you seem to like it and it makes me happy ... Read More
