Hot Chorizo Dip – A recipe dedicated to my little brother

January 31, 2010
hot chorizo cheese dip

My little brother is man of few words. Indeed, he’s grown-up, a man who is only a few years my junior, but he’ll always be a little brother to me.

Since childhood, his silence was often overlooked because with so many frolicking kids in one household, all the loud chatter and squabble over the one television was usually ignored. With 6 high energy kids between the ages of 5-16, my parents became selectively deaf to all our loud obsessions and disputes over the Atari game system. A household of 6 kids and…

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Meyer Lemon Margarita

January 29, 2010
Meyer Lemon Margarita Recipe

I have a little confession.  I didn’t used to be very fond of Meyer Lemons.  In fact, a scratch and sniff of a Meyer lemon rind rekindled memories of small stink bugs that gathered in mini-swarms during the warm summer months on ranch where I first teethed.

The bugs were small and innocent, yet when threatened they’d release a malodorous spray in the vicinity of any foe. Stumble upon a swarm of these little buggers and I’d be dancing about like a pinball trying not to run into one, lest I upset their delicacies.  Many…

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Creamy Hot Stove-Top Crab Dip for the Oven-Less

January 27, 2010
Stove Top Crab Dip

I’m often impatient in the kitchen when it comes to having to use the oven to bake a simple dish. Just the thought of having to pre-heat the oven makes me cringe at the waste of time and energy it takes to create a simple meal. It’s a relief for me to be able to adapt a dish that is traditionally baked in the oven to be cooked on the stove. My impatience enjoys the fact that it doesn’t have to wait for the oven to warm to temperature and honestly, I just love…

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Ginger Edamame Soybean Soup (Bacon?) & How we took the photograph

January 24, 2010
edamame soybean soup

Two weeks ago we had a mildly hectic week  planning for Food Blogger Camp and prepping for the Multimedia Presentation that we were giving. Normally, there’s a checklist of things to finish up before we head out and at the top of the itinerary is to cease all grocery shopping and eat everything left in the fridge. Being more attentive to eat leftovers and not wasting food has saved us a nice sum of money that went towards building new raised vegetable beds!

Hooray for cutting back on excess and being rewarded with a…

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Food Blogger Camp: Final Video, thoughts & sad farewell

January 19, 2010
food blogger camp

Food bloggers are a force to be reckoned with in more ways than we could have ever imagined. In just two years of writing, photographing and sharing our lives with all of you from around the world, the impact of all your friendship, support and community has been one of the things we hold closest to our hearts.

For many of us, the driving force behind our stamina and enthusiasm for blogging comes from the powerful community we are a part of.  The topic of community seemed to be one of the strongest themes that we…

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Food Blogger Camp- Food photography, Getting a cookbook deal & Zihua Market

January 16, 2010
food photography tips

Banana flowers & fruit

As David Lebovitz put it, ” Yesterday was the best day of my life. Okay, it was the best day of the year ” and we agree with him 100%. Here at the Club Med Food Blogger Camp in Ixtapa, Mexico it has been a tremendous 7 day experience of valuable blogging workshops and of course, not to mention all the sun, beach and cocktails. Not bad for a day of learning. If school was always this great, we’d be 2 Ph.D’s smarter and always donning a beautiful golden tan.

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Food Blogger Camp – Food writing, photography & styling workshops

January 12, 2010
food photography tips

Club Med’s food blogger camp is in full swing with dynamic and highly informative workshops in an amazing tropical setting. A group of food bloggers from all around the world gathered in daily workshops super-charged with information rich content to better our blogs by some of the communities leading bloggers.

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Sriracha Bloody Mary & having fun with garnishes

January 10, 2010
sriracha bloody mary

fresh garnishes from the garden

So it appears we’re on a culinary journey to create a small, but sinfully spicy collection of sriracha infused recipes.  And loving every minute of it! Playing with a bottle of hot sauce has never been so hot and gratifying. Previously, we’ve shared our homemade sriracha-style chili hot sauce recipe,  an addicting creamy spicy hot sauce mayo that you can lather on just about anything, and a party pleasing recipe for hot sriracha chicken wings!

With many other hot sauce recipes in queue, we’ve been experimenting with so…

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Beef Sukiyaki Hot Pot – Warmth for the Soul

January 6, 2010
Japanese sukiyaki hot pot recipe

Japanese hot pot, or nabe, are the perfect dish this time of year.  Quick, easy, and warm one-pot meals. This beef sukiyaki hot pot is one of our favorites.

We’ve been trying to catch up on our unarchived photos and after going through our recent Japan trip photographs, we needed some Japanese deliciousness, and quick.  What better way, than with some warm, comforting Japanese home food, Nabe, or hot pot.

In restaurants here in the US, most people’s experience eating Japanese hot pots are at a Shabu-Shabu restaurant.  You might consider shabu-shabu…

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New Blog Stuff and Meyer Lemon Cranberry Scones Recipe

January 4, 2010
scones recipe with meyer lemon cranberries

Garden meyer lemons that smell sooooo wonderful

Before we get to these magnificent meyer lemon cranberry scones recipe, there’s some new blog updates that we want to share.

If you haven’t noticed already, we’ve added some new features to our blog! We’ve always written about recipes, our garden, photography and our travels. But lately, we’ve been wanting to write more about each topic and more often.

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Sidecar Fizz Cocktail – Time to Celebrate!

December 30, 2009
sidecar fizz cocktail recipe

Happy New Year to all and to all a great and safe night of drinking! We’ll be shaking it up on NYE with some great cocktails from our mixed drink archives, but the hardest part is deciding where to start. Celebrating with some fine cocktails from our garden citrus is what we really look forward to. During this time of year, the citrus are at their peak and the zest, oil, fragrance of the rinds are what make these cocktails so stellar.

This year, we’re making a new cocktail, at least new…

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