Homemade Creations

Home Cooking

A Proper King Crab Experience

I admit, I'm a lazy foodie. When it comes to things like shellfish, I want my food to taste just…

9 years ago

How to eat your way through Sicily

My Sicilian vacation can be summed up in three words: Food, Wine, Beach. From my experience, that's all that matters…

11 years ago

Italian Easter = American Thanksgiving

I've never really celebrated Easter aside from Easter egg hunting as a kid. My parents are buddhist so it wasn't…

11 years ago

Homemade Tibetan Food – Momos and Thupka

First off - you won't really learn how to make Tibetan Momos from this blog. This is just about my…

11 years ago

An Indian Homestay Experience

You know that scene in Cinderella when goes to wake her stepsisters and they have the vaulted ceiling rooms and she has…

11 years ago

Ing Doi Farmers Market

Waiting around all week to help Mink at the local farmers market wasn't so terrible considering how much I loved…

11 years ago

Siam Thai Cookery School

I've had my fair share of full day feasts. I started practicing how to survive these events while growing up…

11 years ago

Cauliflower Pasta with Arugula

If you don't like cauliflower, I strongly suggest you give this dish a chance. Personally, I'm not a big cauliflower…

11 years ago

Burrata Stuffed Dates Wrapped in Prosciutto with Homemade Balsamic Glaze

Before Italy, Mozzarella was my favorite cheese. Silly American, I just didn't know any better. What I discovered during my…

11 years ago

Valeria’s Wine Bread in 5 easy steps

For lack of a better description, we’ve dubbed Valeria’s recent breads as “Wine Bread”. We call it wine bread because…

12 years ago

Creating “mother yeast” (natural yeast) for baking

Did you know you can bake bread without commercial yeasts? You can cultivate your very own yeast at home, and…

12 years ago

Corrado’s Carbonara – AKA Real Italian Carbonara

Next to lasagna, one of the many Italian dishes I came to discover in my teenage years was Carbonara. However,…

12 years ago

Stone Oven Experiments

I have never cooked with a stone oven although I constantly dream about having one in my backyard. Once a…

12 years ago

Dining with Gulcan

What a treat it has been to dine with such a grand cook. Gulcan's home cooking is fantastic. The kitchen…

12 years ago

Turkish Delights

So far Cappadochia has been quite swell to me. I've been a bit lazy the past week, basically spending any…

12 years ago

Homemade Ravioli

Back during the good old culinary art classes in highschool, I learned how to make ravioli. All I could remember…

12 years ago

White Chocolate Strawberry Cheesecake

Happy Birthday to Nonna Daniela! She was going to make her own cake and I thought that was just plain…

12 years ago

Going away BBQ

BBQ and bonfires should always be together. They are one of my favorite entertaining activities because it involves, good people,…

12 years ago

Sandra’s Empanadas

Valeria's friend Sandra came to visit for a couple days...she's from Argentina so lucky for us she taught us how…

12 years ago

My First Italian Brunch

Luisa, one of Valeria's friends invited us to her home for brunch today. Luisa has a BEAUTIFUL Italian home. It…

12 years ago

A Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner

This actually occurred last month, but because eat faster than I can write, I'm telling you about it now. Plus…

12 years ago

Jack Daniel’s Bread Pudding

So the entry a lot of you have been waiting for...Jack Daniel's Bread Pudding. Everyone knows how much I love…

13 years ago

Birthday Bonfire

What an incredible night. There was about 20 people in attendance. Laying in the sun, eating, talking, and playing music…

13 years ago

Random Foods

Things that are not worth writing an entire entry solely dedicated to one item. First off: What do you do…

13 years ago

Birthday "BBQ" – Salmon spring rolls recipe

So I celebrate my birthday for a week. Why? Because I have such a diverse group of friends, it's hard…

13 years ago