March 2012
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Cast Iron Skillet Deep Dish Sausage Pizza and...
I was finally able to cross off homemade pizza dough on my bucket list, but more on that later. Let’s first talk about these awesome goodies I got for March Foodie Penpals.
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If you’ve never heard of this program, here’s how it works:
You send a box of goodies to your matched up penpal on the 15th of the month, in which there is a $15 spending limit. You can send fun foodie...
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Caramel Filled Brownies
Having a long-distance relationship is not easy. I may not have it as bad as other couples since Jason and I are only 373 miles apart but in the end, it just downright sucks. It’s tough not being able to see your best friend on a daily basis, and even though we have such advanced technology like Face Time, Jason’s internet is so freaking slow that our conversations are constantly...
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Chicken Noodle Soup
We had some gross weather in Los Angeles over the weekend - it was pouring rain and I think I even heard some thunder too. And even though we don’t have many of these rainy days in this part of town, Jason and I have this tradition to go to BCD Tofu House and gorge on a piping hot bowl of Korean tofu stew. But since he’s in San Francisco, we couldn’t get our usual rainy day...
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Cappuccino Pancakes with Mocha Syrup
I wish we had more time in the morning to make piping hot pancakes before we head off to work. I mean, there’s barely any time to go to the gym, shower, eat some cereal, and get to work all by 9AM! And I just couldn’t understand how on Gilmore Girls, Rory and Lorelei would always have ample time to go to Luke’s and eat a full course breakfast meal before Rory goes to Chilton...
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Muffin Monday: Blueberry Coffee Coffee Cake...
I bookmarked Pam’s Blueberry Coffee Cake Muffins several months ago and I’ve been wanting to make them for quite some time now but I never got around the chance to do so. But then I had this HUGE hankering for some coffee cake muffins earlier this week so I promised myself I’d whip up a batch over the weekend. Then I got Anuradha’s muffin assignment for this...
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Orange Cheese Danish
Ever since I started food blogging about a year ago, I’ve learned so many things along the way, like how you can make granola bars at home that taste a hell of a lot better than the store bought kind. Another thing that I recently learned is how easy is it to make danishes right in your own kitchen!
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Now I am a HUGE danish fan. I love every kind of flavor out there. I mean a...
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No Bake Chewy Chocolate Chip Granola Bars
Ever since I made the Chocolate Chip Almond Butter Granola Bars several weeks ago, I’ve been on the hunt for another great granola bar recipe. But many of the recipes that I’ve come across incorporate several ingredients that I’m not particularly fond of - like dried fruit, coconut and wheat germ. I like my granola bars to be nice and simple, so it was a bit of a challenge...
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Tofu Lettuce Wraps AND a Fantastic Giveaway!...
Happy Tuesday, everyone! I know that it’s still the beginning of the week and we have a LONG way to go until Friday but here’s something to make things a little bit better - the people over at SlimKicker have been so kind to offer a very special slow cooker giveaway for one lucky reader this week!
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But let’s get down to the first order of business and talk about these...
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Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
I love making different varieties of cookies, like Cranberry Pistachio White Chocolate Chip Cookies, Mini Strawberry Filled Lemon Sandwich Cookies, Citrus Butter Cookies, and Pumpkin Snickerdoodles. But then I realized - I haven’t actually made chocolate chip cookies! Insane, right? So I finally decided to go back to baking good ol’ traditional chocolate chip cookies, and I found an...
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Asparagus and Gruyere Tart
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I hope your weekend is filled with awesome beer, green food, and great company. But before you get started on your fun-filled weekend, I send you off with this very green, St. Patty’s Day Tart.
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To be honest, I was actually planning on posting about Brown Eyed Baker’s Lofthouse Style Frosted Sugar Cookies, and I even bought green sugar...
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Blueberry Tea Cake
This was my first time making tea cake, and as I took my first bite into it, I thought, “WHERE IN THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN MY ENTIRE LIFE?” Yeah, it was a pretty first amazing bite. And then it was just as an amazing second bite. And third. And well, you know the rest.
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As I was making this, I wasn’t sure what to expect with this tea cake. Was it going to be super...
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Irish Soda Bread Muffins
This may come as a shock to you but I’ve never ever had Irish soda bread. To be honest, I’ve never even heard about it until several weeks ago as I was going through foodgawker. And each time I saw a recipe for it, it was overlooked because it was just something I was not interested in. I mean, bread made from soda? How weird does that sound? I know, it’s embarrassing but...
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Buffalo Chicken Macaroni and Cheese
When Jason comes down from SF to visit me in LA, I like to send him off with huge portions of freezer-friendly foods because once he’s back up north, he won’t have time to cook. So I began to look for hearty meals that would provide him with plenty of sustenance and nourishment as he’s pulling all-nighters for class projects and building models left and right. So as I’m...
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Muffin Monday: Banana Orange Coconut Muffins
With summer right around the corner, my mind slowly drifts into daydreaming about vacationing on a tropical island like Tahiti with a coconut smoothie in my hand. But considering that I’m going to have to start paying back $150,000 worth of student loans in about six months, I don’t think I’ll be able to have that kind of vacation anytime soon. But a girl can still dream,...
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Vegetarian Peanut Pasta
As you know, I’m hosting the LA Food Blogger Bake Sale that’s happening in a little over a month. It’s a lot more work than I had imagined, calling vendors left and right, responding to emails every 10 minutes, creating beautiful eye-catching flyers, and trying to come up with clever tweets to advertise the sale. But as much work as it is, I’m having a blast. Sure,...
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Meyer Lemon and Matcha Marble Pound Cake
I love making muffins. That’s just a fact. But do you know what I hate making? Anything that uses a loaf pan. It’s my krytopnite. Seriously, every time I set out to make a loaf, it is an utter disaster. I put way too much batter into the pan so the sides burn up and then the middle doesn’t cook up in time.
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This was no exception. The baking time was about an hour and...
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Chicken with Jalapeno Cream Sauce
While Jason’s in SF and I’m in LA, I stay far away from red meat. I try to eat as cleanly as possible because once we’re together, all hell breaks loose and I eat some pretty bad crap. After all, I did gain 24 pounds in the first year of dating him. Yeah, I told you - it’s bad.
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So here on my clean-food cleanse, I’m constantly looking for chicken recipes...
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Broiled Tilapia with Thai Coconut Curry Sauce
Here we have another easy, peasy Thai dinner recipe, perfect for the middle of the week. The ingredient list may seem a bit long but you should have most of this stuff in your pantry, especially if you do some Asian cooking from time to time.
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It’s been a while since I made tilapia and I don’t think I’ve every broiled it. I’ve definitely fried it in some...
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Muffin Monday: Almond Strawberry Biscuit Muffins
I was quite stumped with this week’s Muffin Monday. The original recipe was actually titled “Hazelnut Plum Muffins,” which required both hazelnut meal and plum jam. But when I went to Whole Foods the other night, their shipment of hazelnut meal wasn’t going to come in until the next day, and I was in no mood to make another trip to Whole Foods with it’s super...
LA Food Blogger Bake Sale April 28th
It’s almost that time of year for the Food Blogger Bake Sale. Come join me and your fellow LA Food Bloggers on Saturday, April 28th from 11:30AM to 2:00PM at BLD Restaurant (7450 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90036) to support Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale for the No Kid Hungry Campaign.
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This is the third annual National Food Blogger Bake Sale, and we...
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Ooey Gooey Cheesy Meatballs
As I was getting ready for my trip to San Francisco to visit Jason, I wanted to bring along some hearty comfort food, especially because I knew that he wouldn’t have anything in his fridge. So the night before my flight, I decided to make these gorgeous looking cheesy meatballs. The original recipe called for ground chicken but since Jason and I are hardcore meat lovers, I decided to use...
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Pad See Ew
Pad see ew is one of my favorite Thai dishes. Every time Jason and I order Thai, we have to get this dish. Jason doesn’t it like it as much as I do, which kind of works out because then there’s more for me. But as much as I like this dish, it’s just not worth spending $10.25 on it. It’s such a small serving. I mean there’s barely enough for leftovers to take to...
