We visited Portugal a few times. It wasn’t just history that soaked us. The simplicity of their food bowled us over. And yummm…so so flavorful. Especially the grilled fish. I have been trying various grilled fish recipes lately. This is…
Recently, I read about an Italian lady working to recreate recipes from her great great great grandmother’s diary. It was written in Alsatian (I never even knew that was a language, I thought it meant dogs, or GSDs in other…
I find myself heading back to my website more and more now a days. I’ve been wondering why I don’t post more often. Is it because I always want to personalize each thing I post? Could be. I’ve realized that…
Summer and vacations go hand in hand. Throw into the pit the eternal search for quick, filling, healthy meals and you realize that you are a lot more creative, though not very original, than you realized. These fish tacos…
To count blessings…..to say thanks for little and big things that we have; For peace, for health, for happiness of the heart. Wishing a beautiful Thanksgiving to my blogosphere friends. On this day, as the blog world fills up with…
A big achivement this summer was that my younger one finally learned to ride a bike, much to his delight. He began learning to ride at 4. But he never managed to balance himself on a bicycle that had training…
Looking for a quick appetizer and want to impress as well? Go for some smoked salmon bites dressed with basil and goat cheese. I also experimented with Harissa as well as balsamic vinegar, but sons vetoed it. This weekend was…
Recently, I had some reader requests to me to post ideas for healthy gluten free meal ideas. (Thank you so much for writing to me – they mean the world to me 🙂 ) I try to incorporate healthy ideas…
Once I worked with a really nice gentleman who was also social and a very cordial person. He was by nature helpful, and it was fun to work with him because he was always so positive. Whenever anyone spoke with…
“Wait wait, don’t start on the curry yet,” Mr L8H’s voice crackled over into my ears through bad cell phone reception. I paused at the process of washing the recently defrosted cornish hens in my basin. I planned to finish…
Summer and cold desserts – they should be synonyms. Especially frozen cold desserts. Did you know that before advent of the modern day refrigerator, humans devised various ways to make ice and preserve meat and create amazing frozen desserts?…
If I like a book, really, really, really like it, then my clock will cease to exist until I have gleaned every word from its pages. If I don’t read a book in one sitting, it might mean that I…
Every summer during school holidays, we used to visit my maternal grandparents. They ran a large household, full of children and animals. Every afternoon, without fail, my Dida (grandma) could be found supervising massive cauldrons of whey, hay, starch and…
When summer vacation started, I had heaved a sigh of relief. I am not a morning person. The thought that I would be able to sleep in was fantastic and almost had me rubbing my hands in glee.…
New England is weird this year. It was warm in the winter, and it’s chilly in the summer. It’s mid June, still it’s not comfortable to step out without a light jacket. Not too bad though. As far as…