I don’t know about the rest of you, but I always order orange chicken when I order Chinese food.  I love it!  So naturally, I had to try to make it myself.  It’s just what I do these days…if you haven’t noticed.  So, sometimes I will get a piece of orange chicken and it wasn’t properly … [Read more…]
A meal seems incomplete without a vegetable side dish. Â Or is that just me? Â I made some orange chicken this week (recipe to come soon), and I was trying to come up with a good side dish. Â I wanted it to have some Asian flavors and a little spice so that my husband would eat … [Read more…]
I am always looking for a new lunch item to add to my typical rotation. Â My criteria for lunches are the following: portable can be made in large quantities easily assembled the night before few components healthy (ie. loaded with vegetables) These criteria are hard to follow all the time. Â I typically have to settle … [Read more…]
My dad has quite the green thumb. Growing up, our backyard always had fruit trees. We could never eat all of them, so my mom would make jam with whatever was leftover. It seems like we always had an endless supply of blackberry or apricot jam at home to put on toast or peanut butter and … [Read more…]
Most of the pastries I make these days go to those hard working engineers that my husband and I work with. Â There is nothing more that an office worker loves, than a homemade treat to brighten up their day. Â It really surprises me when they ask “and you made it from scratch?” Â Of course I … [Read more…]