Happy Dragon year everyone! I thought I'd take a little break from posting travel pictures and post a re...

There's something in the air. Mornings are brisk, and so are nights. Alas, the end of summer is near. The days are still bright, sunny...

First things first, I apologize for the poor quality of this photo. See, the thing is, I took it with my phone because I couldn't find m...

I'm back. I didn't actually go anywhere, but I have barely posted anything in January and I haven't really read any of your bl...

  The first time I had chicken basil I was at a small Thai restaurant in Naples, Florida, a place called Siam Thai. Although it was a stone...

  Remember the good ol' days when I lived in Florida and every other recipe I posted involved chicken? Well, those days are long gone. N...

I have a question for you all: how do you pack for a trip that is longer than a year? I have already figured out how to take my winter clot...

Great news. Both in the sense that the news is big and that is also good. I have booked my flight to Italy. From April 22nd I'll be cook...

Every once in a while Tommy stops by our friend Jayne's house to have a beer with her and her husband Bruce before dinner. And because t...

This week was one of those weeks —one of those weeks when you barely have time to take a shower, let alone update your blog. I spent more th...

If you had to pick one kind of ethnic food to eat for the rest of your life, what would it be? As much as I love Thai and Vietnamese, I thi...

Yesterday for some reason -lots of work, teeth cleaning, crazy traffic- I was sooo tired the last thing I wanted to do was to fuss in the k...

Look! It's Friday and I actually a) posted something b) remembered to post a recipe I learned from a fellow food blogger If you have no ...

More poultry recipes? Well yes. I'm broke and chicken was on sale for a while, so now I'm living off what's in the freezer. I gr...

So where's the chicken, you might ask? It obviously didn't make it into the picture, the main reason being that I was hungry and imp...

In my never ending effort to be thrifty (so that I have enough money to buy shoes and travel) I have discovered how much cheaper it is to bu...

I don't know about you, but every once in a while I crave the smoky taste of a good barbecue sandwich. Yesterday was one of those days. ...

I know, the name of this recipe sounds kind of scary... and 40 cloves of garlic seem like a lot! But trust me, once the garlic is cooked it ...

I was born and raised in Italy, so of course I knew nothing about beer can chickens until a few years ago. I don't remember where I had ...

Wow, that is one long title... I thought about calling it "Chinese stir fry", but then again, other than the chili black bean sauc...