It's Seriously Soupy Sunday, featuring one of my favorite bloggers Serena, who authors a blog called Seriously Soupy. Serena started Seriously Soupy as a creative outlet for herself after her first daughter was born, which combined her passion for cooking with an interest in learning more about soups and soup making. Since it started she has given soup tours and taught soup classes and has a catologue of over 100 soups on the site! You can join Serena on her Soupy journey at SeriouslySoupy.com and twice a month you can find her here, at My … [Read more...]
Apple Clafoutis
August 17, 2012 By 6 Comments
When I first started sorting through Mom’s recipes, I circled all of the words that (at the time) were completely meaningless to me. Among them: parboiled, pin prick, blanched and CLAFOUTIS. A year later, I’ve since parboiled, pin pricked, blanched and just yesterday, made my first clafoutis! How exciting. In my kitchen-clueless mind, Clafloutis sounded more like some sort of tree fungus rather than a celebrated baked custard French dessert. Apparently, a traditional clafoutis contains cherries arranged in a buttered dish covered with … [Read more...]
Pistachio-Crusted Chicken Breasts w/Raspberry Sauce
August 15, 2012 By 1 Comment
For me, there’s no better bonding opportunity than by cooking alongside my big sister; especially when we’re recreating one of Mom’s recipes. Whenever I’m with my dad and my sister (together )I constantly feel the intensity of the loss of my mom. This weekend I was with my dad and my sister so, Mom's absence followed me everywhere. But, I’m still determined to fill that overwhelming void with memories enhanced by her food. As luck would have it, my sister suggested we recreate one of Mom’s celebrated recipes that her family … [Read more...]
Introducing Love with Food {plus a 12-month gourmet food sampler giveaway}
August 13, 2012 By 239 Comments
Congratulations to Sarah Pinneo for winning the Love with Food Giveaway! It's time to discover great food for a great cause! I recently had the chance to spend some time with Aihui Ong, CEO of Love with Food, a nascent food subscription service that launched in December 2011. To say Aihui is a very driven woman is an understatement. Like many people, Aihui was looking for a life change and was committed to combine both of her biggest passions, food and technology. So, she started coding, creating a website to help food makers … [Read more...]
