kitchen characters.

I’ve determined that I have three kitchen personalities.

There’s the planner, who mulls over flavors, carefully considers which would be the best trios or pairs, determines if the concept would be best suited to blending, roasting, caramelizing, or simply mixing on a plate.

Then, there’s the lazy cook, who throws the refrigerator’s contents together with [...]

health foods.

Tonight’s dinner was one of those that had me feeling like an official health nut.

It all began with arame, which I purchased a couple weeks back.  I’ve wanted to make my own seaweed salad for some time now, as it is a necessity that I order it on the rare occasion I get sushi.  [I [...]

randomness and awards.

Recently, I have been honored to be tagged for a few “blogging awards” by some other bloggers I greatly respect.  I don’t normally indulge this amount of “me-talk,” mostly out of fear of boring my dear readers.  But, this time I decided, why not?  If you feel inspired to procrastinate, read on.

Resulting in quite possibly [...]