Friday Night Photos: Fun Times Meeting Food Bloggers at BlogHer '09 Last weekend I was in Chicago for the 2009 BlogHer Conference, where I had a good time hanging out with blogging friends and getting a few ... Read More
Blood work, Symptoms SCD - sed rate update I found out today that one key marker of inflammation (ESR) had gone from 29 pre-diet (out of range) to 17 (close to within range) after 3 t... Read More
Easy to Cook, Favorites, Gluten-Free, Kid Friendly, Low Carb, Meatless Cafe Rio Style Creamy Tomatillo Salad Dressing If you live in Utah, you might be a fan of this Cafe Rio Style Creamy Tomatillo Salad Dressing! Every place has its own food culture, and if... Read More
Easy to Cook, Favorites, Five Ingredients, Gluten-Free, Kid Friendly, Low Carb Recipe For Completely Foolproof 100% Delicious Grilled Chicken This delicious grilled chicken really is foolproof! (Updated and added to Recipe Favorites July 2009.) I've been away for five days... Read More
condiments Sambal Tauco (Yellow Bean Sauce Sambal) Ingredients: • ¼ cup (70g) yellow bean sauce (tauco) or miso • ¼ cup (60 mL) thick coconut milk Spice Paste: • 3 green finger-length ch... Read More
condiments Green Chilli Sambal ( Sambal Lado Mudo) Ingredients: 5 teblespoons cooking oil 25 g ( ¾ oz) dried white bait ( ikan billis /ikan teri), rinsed and dried,with heads removed 50 g ( ... Read More
Breakfast recipes, Snacks recipes, vegetarian recipes Chhole Bhature Chhole Bhature is one of the most popular dish of northern India. It seems to have originated in Punjab though it is considered as one of t... Read More
Mom Stuff My baby's First Haircut So today we took the little man to get his hair cut for the first time. Despite much hesitation on the part of all of his grandparents, we ... Read More
Kalyn's Kitchen Picks: Penzeys Ground Red Chipotle Chile Pepper There's a very good reason I'm showing a nearly-empty bottle of Penzey's Ground Red Chipotle Chile Pepper for this edition of Ka... Read More
seafood Pindang Bandeng Ingredients: 3 sliced Shallots 3 slices Garlic cloves 2 tsp. (10g) Tamarind (soaked in 1/4 cup hot water) 2 cups (500g) Water 1 bruised Lemo... Read More
chicken Besengek Ayam Ingredients: 1 broiler or fryer 2 tsp salt 3 tbsp vegetables oil or margarine 2 clove garlic, chopped finely 2 red chilies, crushed 1 tsp gr... Read More
Easy to Cook, Gluten-Free, Meatless, Vegan Fruit Salad Recipe with Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Pineapple, and Dill One time a few years ago my nieces Elizabeth and Amanda were spending the night at my house. We were eating breakfast on my porch, and I w... Read More
Intro Diet, Symptoms SCD Update The SC diet was going very well and we were seeing good improvement... until applesauce, and then me making the mistake of feeding Cyrus a f... Read More
beef Sweet & Savory Beef Stew Today's comfortable 20 degrees is a welcomed change from the last couple of sweltering 35+ degree days (Celsius that is), so a nice swee... Read More
Easy to Cook, Favorites, Kid Friendly, Meatless Recipe for Low-Sugar Whole Wheat and Oatmeal Blueberry Muffins with Lemon As contradictory as it sounds, I had a much easier time eating a good breakfast every day when I was rushing off to work in the morning. O... Read More
Meal Plans Meal Plan Week 27 The grocery list is back! This time it's easier to use and printable as well. It is color coordinated by meal so you can easily pick and... Read More
Friday Night Photos: Cute Kids Run in the Family I love taking photos of kids, but when I see these pictures on the blog it reminds me that Friday Night Photos started as a way for me to pr... Read More
North Indian Recipes, vegetarian recipes Matar Paneer Matar Paneer is an extremely popular North Indian dish and is considered as a special side dish among most veggies across India. I tried to... Read More
Easy to Cook, Favorites, Gluten-Free, Kid Friendly, Meatless, Vegan Strawberry Spinach Salad with Almonds and Dill (Vegan, Gluten-Free) This Strawberry Spinach Salad with Almonds and Dill would be perfect for any summer holiday party! One of the fun things about blogging that... Read More
soup, vegetables Mushroom Soup ( Wong Dadah) Ingredients: 1. Vegetable oil 2 tbsp 2. Vegetable spice paste 200 g ( 7 oz) 3. Shiitake mushrooms 250 g ( 9oz) washed and sliced or quarte... Read More
soup Makassarese Beef Rib Soup (Sop Konro) Ingredients: • 3 tablespoons oil • 4 keluak nuts (buah keluak), cracked, flesh extracted (optional) • 1 ½ kg ( 3 lbs) beef ribs, separa... Read More
chicken, Leftovers, soup Tex Mex Chicken & Rotini Soup This Southwestern-style soup will have you slurping and asking for more. It's a great use for the leftover bones of a chicken...especial... Read More
chicken Spice-Rubbed Beer Can Chicken *Reposted from the archives with updated pictures and text. Original post date Aug. 6/08. Are you of the camp that "beer is synonymou... Read More
Easy to Cook, Favorites, Gluten-Free, Meatless, Vegan Recipe for Socca (Garbanzo or Chickpea Flatbread Pancake from France) If you can't travel to the south of France, use this recipe to make Socca at home. Chickpea flour is used all over the world to make th... Read More
seafood Fish Grilled in A Banana Leaf (Ikan Pepes) Ingredients: • 1 whole fish (snapper, perch or bream), ¾ - 1 kg (1 ½ - 2 lbs) • 1 tablespoon lime or lemon juice • ½ teaspoon salt • 2 ba... Read More
seafood Fish Simmered in Fragrant Soy (Pindang Kecap) Ingredients: • 500 g ( 1 lb) white fish fillets, such as snapper, perch or bream • 5 shallots, skins left on 2 cm ( ¾ in) fresh turmeric ... Read More
Friends Is Closure really enough? So I do believe that a lot of people have those few things in their lives that they could take back or do over so to speak. Mine happened t... Read More
chicken, Indian, Slow Cooker Slow Cooker Chicken Tikka Masala I think my all-time, stranded on a desert island and can't have anything else, favorite recipe has got to be my Slow Cooker Butter Ch... Read More
Kalyn's Kitchen Picks: Better Than Bouillon Organic Low-Sodium Chicken Base There are people who love making homemade chicken stock , and then there are people who think homemade stock is just too much trouble. If y... Read More
Dinner Party Dolce Vita A couple weeks ago we were in Calgary and I got to visit with my friends Tara and Shanna. We declared it a "Gourmet Italian Food Day... Read More