This pasta dish is probably about six years in the making.  To explain, I will need to take you back to my college days.  Back then, as now, I loved to cook and actually did cook often for roommates and friends.  There were a couple of restaurants in my...

You know, sometimes in the dead of winter, I crave a cold sweet treat.  This is not a joke – Paul even went on a hot fudge sundae run recently on a very cold night just because I had a craving.  However, if you are at all conscious about how you...

I don’t talk about beauty often but I think that will be the subject of this post, aside from Creamy Gorgonzola Pasta being the main subject.  So beauty – do you have any secrets?  I sure don’t.  It’s never really been at the top of my priority list.  I...

OK, so, I have actually surprised myself lately with the number of salads I have been eating.  Not necessarily because it’s January, but because I’m just craving them.   I guess maybe it started around Thanksgiving with Marion’s Kale Salad but I’m not really sure.  All I know is...

There are only a few things I love more than my multiple-night-per-week helping of popcorn – and that’s reader comments that give me amazing ideas to spice up my popcorn – literally.  This month I was featured in our local magazine in an article talking about food bloggers.  The...

This is a sponsored post, written by me for Just BARE®. If you look around in my recipe archives you are sure to notice that Asian recipes are at the top of my list of favorites.  A couple of weeks ago, we actually had astir-fry very similar to the one I’m...