INGREDIENTS: 6 oz of spaghetti 1 tablespoon lime juice 1 tablespoon fresh ginger or 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1 tablespoon fresh garlic or 1/2 teaspoon dried garlic 1 teaspoon red chili/pepper flakes 1 and 1/2 cups sliced chicken 1 red bell pepper sliced/chopped 3 green onions (scallions) chopped 1/2 inch 1/4 cup cilantro Lime wedges [...]

Despite my fondness for things noodly, I can’t enjoy pasta very often: Carbs settle on my hips, and my mood suffers if I eat too much of the stuff. This is frustrating, because pasta is not only inexpensive and easy to prepare, but its “portionability” is perfect for folks like me who are cooking for [...]

    There is nothing better tasting then fresh bread with a lavender spread. The aroma of the two combined is so great that in my opinion should be bottled as a perfect kitchen air freshener scent. Important facts to know and to follow: Never use any type of dried lavender if it’s not self [...]

Cheesy and Creamy, So, So, So Good…  When my kids were growing up I never seemed to know how many to make dinner for. There were always a couple of extra “hollow-legs-syndromed” teens about. This was my salvation dinner.

 So, you’re a blogger. Or you work at home in some other way. Does that mean you have to eat the traditional nerd’s meal of caffeine and whatever munchy food is close by? Hardly. There’s nothing more reassuring on a busy day than knowing that a good dinner is cooking itself while you’re busy with [...]

Learning to cook can be a daunting task for a southern girl grow’d up on meat n’ taters. Especially with no one around to teach me even the most basic knife skills needed to insure I’d debone the chicken and not my forefinger. When I asked my mother-in-law-to-be  to teach me to cook, she snarked, [...]