August 31, 2008
We all have certain moments in our lives when we look at our significant other and think – Yes, I’ve chosen wisely. One such moment in my life involves a huge bone. Not that kind of bone you dirty minds – I meant a real bone. It happened in one of the early years of [...]
August 30, 2008
It sucks to be stuck at home over a long weekend! We had everything ready for a Las Vegas getaway, when I got sick with a really bad cold. Vegas is the wrong place to be with a cold, unless you are on a mission to spread the virus to the world. So we postponed [...]
August 28, 2008
For a couple of months, we were stuck in a cooking rut induced by job demands, bad health and just pure laziness. We rarely cooked at home and even when we did, it was usually something boring. Luckily there were some events to keep this blog alive and somewhat interesting, but when I browse through [...]
August 26, 2008
This is going to be my shortest post ever! Looking for an easy dish for MBP – Fruit Fare, I found the easiest dessert in the world – No Cooking Required Mango Soup by Mango & Tomato. The recipe is to cube a ripe mango and mix with defrosted vanilla ice cream. My mango was [...]
August 24, 2008
Sra tagged me for a book me-me a while ago. The rules for this me-me are-Pick up the nearest book-Open to page 123-Find the 5th sentence-Post the next three sentences-Tag 5 people and acknowledge the person who tagged you. At the time I read Sra’s post, I had five books next to me- two were [...]
August 23, 2008
Looks like Tapas are the latest trend in Seattle! I remember a time when we had only a couple of good Tapas places, but looks like there are quite a few restaurants popping out around the area. I am not complaining though, I have professed my love for Spanish food in this blog many times. [...]
August 18, 2008
I found this very interesting little activity going on around the blogosphere and wanted to play along too. This was originated by Andrew of the Very Good Taste blog. In Andrew’s on words “Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. [...]
August 17, 2008
I am proud to present a colorful array of grilled goodies cooked up by food bloggers from all around the globe! We have 71 grilled delights here today! These mouthwatering dishes include all sorts of grilled stuff – vegetables, fruits, fish, shrimp, chicken, lamb, steak, salads, sandwiches, pizza you name it, we have it here. [...]
August 16, 2008
idbit bistro is a casual European restaurant in Capitol Hill that serves Spanish and Italian comfort cuisine. Where Madrid meets Napoli is their slogan. The food is unpretentious, simple and extremely delicious, ambience is casual, staff is friendly and the prices are very reasonable – a perfect place to sit back and relax with a [...]
August 14, 2008
A gentle reminder that tomorrow- August 15th – is the deadline for Monthly Mingle – Grill It event. If you haven’t grilled anything yet, you have another 28 hours to go. Thanks for all the wonderful entries so far and please note that if you haven’t submitted your entry using the entry form, I won’t [...]
August 13, 2008
I have a lot of admiration for those who can whip up some delicious meal with just the ingredients from their fridge and pantry. My pantry is relatively well-stocked, but my refrigerator is almost always devoid of anything useful. A few containers of week old take-out food, bits and pieces of wilted veggies, yogurt-eggs-butter-cheese-etc with [...]
August 6, 2008
The grilling saga continues! This time it’s Sardines! Yes, I finally found fresh sardines here at Uwajimaya! Grilled these on my non-stick grill pan, since I was a bit afraid to use the cast iron grill. I didn’t want the skin to stick to cast iron, crispy skin is the best part of sardines! Yeah, [...]
August 4, 2008
Isn’t summer supposed to be the season of leisure? In my case it is quite the opposite! When I announced the “Grill It!” event this month, I had big plans. There were dreams of grilling at least twice a week. There were plans to grill everything – fruits, meat, seafood, vegetables, pizza – you name it! Even [...]
August 2, 2008
Pimientos de Padrón aka Padrón peppers is a variety of green peppers from Spain. We had these in Spain last December and were totally hooked! I looked around for them here after we got back, to no avail! So I gave up and assumed that I will have to just go back to Spain for [...]