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Baby, it’s cold outside…perfect for some white chicken chili to warm your soul…

Even though we’ve been spoiled with low to mid 70s here in LA, there’s something about the winter “air” that’s a little blue, a little gloomy – a perfect excuse for making some comfort dishes.  One of my favorite is … Continue reading

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Snapshot of Holiday Cooking pix – Dumplings, Sweet Potatoes, Bokchoy and all over the place

It was my birthday yesterday and my perfect, best-in-the-universe-husband surprised me with a Macbook Pro and so here I am with a debut of blogging on my own Mac.  Wordpress looks a little different and I am sure I have … Continue reading

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Nancy Silverton, the Bread Queen – learning Italian cooking from the best…

Inaugural Mozza cooking class of 11 eager-beaver, hand-raising (that would be me:)), ravenous foodie students gathered on one weeknight of Nov 12 at the impressive, fully-equipped kitchen at Mozza with the one and only Nancy Silverton – with pix to prove it;) … Continue reading

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Cooking class at Mozza tonite! Inaugural class with co-owner Nancy Silverton and Chef Matt Molina

Can’t wait!  Inaugural cooking class at Mozza2go, of the infamous Nancy Silverton of Osteria Mozza and chef Matt Molina.  I so lucked out – was put on a waiting list and got a call late last night of a cancellation … Continue reading

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Cheap dinner- Stretch your dollar with one chicken, three very different recipes.

Make one damn good roasted chicken. Get three tasty n very different meals out of it. Your dinner worries are half over with three days of chicken. I promise you won’t be tired of chicken as each recipe is totally … Continue reading

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Converting oatmeal haters with quick-n-easy Irish steel-cut oatmeal recipe

Mmm..aahhh~  It’s starting to smell like fall.  No leaves changing color here in SoCal but definitely feeling the chilly mornings and nights and with Halloween around the corner, it’s definitely fall.  And what better way to start your morning than … Continue reading

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Bring zing to your chicken recipe…Chicken Marbella (tribute to Ms. Sheila Lukins)

On my way to work driving down the ever-treacherous demonic 405 in LA, I heard a clip on KCRW.  A listener, an expat in a far-away land, perhaps Sweden or even Iceland wrote in, saying how uncanny it was that at the … Continue reading

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korean sushi, gimbap or kimbap (translation – “seaweed rice”)

cooking three days in a row!  Yum~ Yum~ 7 ingredients 1. egg 2. carrots 3. cucumber 4. gobo (japanese burdock) 5. spinach 6. yellow daikon 7. kalbi marinated beef Rice & Roasted Seaweed  

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Chicken or the egg? What to eat when you’re feeling sick… Tamago Mari & Chicken Soup

Been celebrating, post-detox and our wedding anniversary – whatever excuses to dine out at new places, many of which were just plain awesome~  Most of which I’ve reviewed on Yelp including Lucques, Osteria Mozza, Il Pastaio and around the other side, … Continue reading

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Simple and easy decadent breakfast sandwich recipe – Croque California

What is it about white bread?  The bad-rep’d Wonderbread kind, that calls your name now and then, no matter how much you try to disconnect any association with this fluffy, squishy refined white flour invention?  Maybe it’s nostalgia growing up with … Continue reading

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