I am adding three Goan sweet recipes to this series – a simple Coconut Sweet - Gons, a more traditional Coconut Cake – Baath, and a roundish Coconut Cookie called Bolinhas, with a twist. Jeez, you’d think coconuts grew on trees back home! My wife and I picked the latter two from a collection of [...]
These are just ridiculous cookies! And I mean that in the nicest way possible. The sweet/salty maple flavor gives way to the pecan toffee bites. When these are cooling on the rack, it is utterly impossible to walk by and not put one in your mouth. This is Christmas Treat #4 – Sweet and Salty [...]
This is a complete meal blog - main and side! What makes it taste special is this simple umami flavor-bomb glaze for the salmon. The big secret to any glaze - just kidding, no secret, is to always make it super tasty. In the cooking classes I would always teach this concept - common sense [...]
Looking for a not too sweet, crunchy, chewy, moist bite of deliciousness in your day? Try these muffins! I know I’ve given you a lot of apple recipes, but you can always substitute and I listed some possible substitute for them in the recipe section below. This is a great treat for those mornings where [...]
The ultimate bar, for me has to be the Blondie. I’ve made so many variations of this but only blogged a few. Here is one that I know will become part of your repertoire. This time I’m using one of my favorite flavors - coffee. The better quality the better the taste (did I really [...]
My mum was a marvelous cook! She could make anything tasty! I think most of my love of food came from her love of cooking for us. This is one of our favorite dishes and one of the few I can duplicate thanks to her patience for translating “this much...” into “1/2 tsp...”. This is [...]
The things you do out of necessity. I bought some plantains last week. I was thinking tostones or cooked with salt fish and habanero peppers (will definitely do this, just not today). But alas, I waited too long (although I think that was more a psychological barrier in my mind, they were beautifully blackening and tender [...]
Here’s a delicious low-carb dinner for you. I intended it to be vegetarian (dare I say it, even vegan), by obeying the rules of each, but I didn’t. You can though. I hadn’t made spaghetti squash in years and just happened to see one a few weeks ago at the grocery store. I did pick [...]
Avocado, walnuts, eggs, dark chocolate – check! Individually all good for you, combined – oh my goodness, a slice of heaven on a plate! I was out shopping the other day and bought a big bag of avocadoes. The last time I bought a big bag of avocadoes from that big store that sells everything [...]
I heard the familiar sound of the garbage truck rounding the corner of our street, and sprung out of bed and ran to put out what we had. What a shock, it's not shorts weather in Kansas Dorothy! I wont complain though, there is still (even with all 2020 has thrown us) so much beauty [...]
