A Toast to Me!

Every Christmas my sister-in-law’s mother makes this amazing fudge.  Every year I go home and hope that there’s some left for me.  What is it with this fudge?  It’s creamy, yet firm.  It’s chocolaty, but not overly sweet.  I’ve asked for the recipe, but haven’t been so lucky as to get it.  What I do [...]

So I made tamales for the first time in my life, why?  Because we challenged one of the guys in our office to a Tamale Cook-Off.  What was I thinking?  I’ve never made them before!  But how hard could it be, right? So I’ve spent the last 2 weeks searching on-line for the perfect tamale [...]

On occasion, I’ll visit a local restaurant who has AMAZINGLY, DELICIOUS food, where the wine list is affordable, the appetizers are decadent and unique and their main courses are apparently just as appetizing.  Truth be told, I’ve never made it there for an actual main course – really who needs to order a meal when [...]

Today I feel like my mind is just about everywhere — thinking about new possible ventures, exisiting work, relationship, things like that — but what I should be thinking about is what the heck are we going to serve at Sunday’s wine pairing linner?  In case you were wondering, “linner” is that meal that you [...]

About 3 months ago, I moved.  That’s a mouthful, I know.  Moving can be so stressful.  Couple that with limited funds and the stress triples.  But here we are, thank God that everything seems to be working out just fine.  (Thank you God). Things have been coming around slowly and of course the To Do [...]

Smoked salmon, avocado and mango sandwich — probably one of my favorite sandwiches ever construed!  Thanks Chef Tom Colicchio for this little gem, it’s delicious! 1 small unripe mango, peeled and julienned juice from 1/2 lime kosher salt bread – he recommends Pulman white bread, I used country flat bread 1 ripe avocado drizzle of [...]

Nope.

So if you know me, you’ll know that I am definitely a Starbucks addict!  My poison?  A Venti Chai Tea Latte with Soy, no water, no foam.  My recent vices?  Scones!  They are delicious!  BUT, they are so high in calories, thus high in points… aarg!  So I scoured the Internet in search of a [...]

Friday night I wanted to make a healthy, low fat, low points dinner.  I came across the following recipes, which were healthy, filling and delicious!  Since the focus was on the food, I didn’t plan ahead of time to pick out the wines, however I would recommend a light Pinot Gris or even a fruity [...]

Yesterday I tasted Glühwein for the fist time and it was interesting.  I can’t say that I had ever heard of warm wine before, but Peter (my boss) assures me that it is very popular and has been for quite a while!  Being the curious person that I am, naturally I googled it this morning [...]