Returning food to the sacred
Mulled wine has a very long history dating back to the 2nd century! It has incarnated in various ways through all of Europe, the Americas and mention of it in Turkey. After all this time the recipes have changed, evolved and become quite flexible with the one constant being hot wine sweetened with […]
Winter is very quickly leaving us and I’m so not ready. I am still savoring the crisp air that greets me up at the cabin when I head up there after a week in hot Los Angeles. These days aren’t long for this year and I’m holding on to every last one with deep love […]
A Cuba Libre has long been my easier go to cocktail when ordering a dirty dry vodka martini seemed a bit much or was not available. Over the years, I’ve jumped from a regular coke and rum to a coke with spiced rum. I can thank my husband for introducing me to that little switch […]
Come on… did you really think I’d spend months on end in Thailand and NOT discuss this elixir of indulgence and bliss? Anyone of us who has ever either been to Thailand or a Thai restaurant has had the divine and potentially diabetic coma inducing Thai Ice Tea, yes? I don’t know what to tell […]
Jon and I had our Housewarming party last weekend and I served nothing but stick food and cocktails. Don’t ask me why, but the idea stuck and off I went to make food we could all eat on a stick. This is the little cocktail I served and it was delicious but deceptive and after […]
I must say, I have loved having our friends, Rox and Shane, share the bounty of their lime tree with us. For weeks it seemed that every time I went over there for my thrice weekly swim, I walked away with a bag of home grown organic limes. I used them on everything; in my […]
Do you remember Strawberry Quick? Am I aging myself here, or does that stuff still exist? I remember as a little girl, my mother would give me ice cold milk turned bright pink by this sugary pink powder made to taste like strawberries. That’s what this smoothie reminds me of, only, it’s made with actual […]
My awesome friend Kim came by the other day with a Juicer for me. I haven’t had one in a while, not since I completely burned out the engine in my Juiceman a couple of years ago. I had intended on replacing it, but then in plans to move here to Maui, I just didn’t […]
Living on Maui is fruit heaven. Now that we are receiving a weekly CSA box, I find myself having to come up with more and more amazing things to make to use up all the bounty. Today is the first of what will likely be hundreds of smoothies to come. Enjoy! Star Fruit Smoothie 1/2 […]
