When visiting a smallish resort town, as Palm Springs is, I lower my expectations about food. Unless there’s a specifically good restaurant, I try not to be critical about what I put into my mouth. I go into “eat to live” instead of “live to eat” mode. Or at I least try to.
So for breakfast, [...]
How fitting that showdown #4 is about a restaurant named ‘Four Seas’ in Chinese. This place is not to be confused with the restaurant of a similar name in Hacienda Heights. When I arrived at Si Hai around 11am, I was hoping that the breakfast rush would be over, but the line that went from [...]
This okra salad is so simple, it doesn’t even count as a recipe. I wanted to use up the handful of okra we got from our CSA box last week and I didn’t want to do a whole lot of cooking. For breakfast, I washed the okra, dropped it into a pan of [...]
It’s the BF’s birthday today, so I made sourdough waffles for him for breakfast. He helped with the batter, but I’d like to say that the waffle success was because of my magical sourdough starter that’s still going strong.
I haven’t done a tomato plant update for a while, but it’s still growing fast. More and [...]
The BF made chilaquiles last night. Usually he uses leftover home-made salsa that I made. This time, we had no salsa on hand, so he made his own with roasted tomatillos and lots of hot peppers. The salsa was tart, spicy, and just the right amount of sweet. Okay, maybe too spicy because my stomach [...]
I’m excited about my new waffle iron. I’ve been lusting after one for almost a year now and finally broke down and bought a Waring Pro WMK300A. It’s a Belgian style waffle maker, which means it makes nice deep pockets.
The first recipe we tried was the one for vegan Belgian waffles which was pretty [...]
I wish all mornings could start like this. Fresh cooked steel cut oats ready when I wake up thanks to the BF loading the rice cooker the night before. I made my bowl of oatmeal savory with some finely chopped kalamata olives, green onions, olive oil, and maggi sauce. He made his [...]
