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If you've been reading cooking posts here for any length of time, you probably already know that I have speed issues with cooking. That...

We don't often post more than once a day, but with 10 days left to the end of the year, we still have about 17 more posts on the 52 week...

When I hear miso, my first thought is soup (which amuses me, since the majority of the miso mentions on this blog have nothing to do with...

A while back, we tried some Trader Joe's sriracha seafood potstickers in festive Christmas colors and really liked them. They had a n...

We eat a lot of rice of all types at home, so for the rice challenge, I just looked for something different that I had never made before. A...

Product name : Five spice chicken and Asian style rice noodle salad Price : $4.49 Quick review : This was pretty good - a layer...

Our day in Barbados came just over halfway through our Quantum cruise on day 7. Our dinner that night was at Silk, and after our experienc...

Umami, the "fifth taste" (which wasn't taught as one back when I learned them in elementary school), was the Week 50 challeng...

Yesterday we read some really disappointing news: Chipotle is planning to abandon ShopHouse, their fast casual Southeast Asian line. There a...

The theme for Week 18 was brown bag lunch, which for me immediately screamed sandwich. Sure, I could have done something more creative, sinc...

I was just thrilled  to find out the theme for Week 2 of the challenge this year was going to be sous vide. Two years ago, they did a molec...