Simple recipe with outstanding results. Eton mess is one of those desserts: strawberries, cream, meringue. Plus a giveaway!

Bean curd skin rolls are a favorite dim sum dish of mine that I recreated at home.

Recreating a dressing from a favorite Trader Joe’s noodle salad: coconut lime cilantro dressing.

Focus on Culinary School of the Rockies in Boulder, Colorado – why they are a great resource and how they influenced my food blogging.

A nice twist on a lemon drop martini plus announcing a food photography workshop this summer.

A fast, easy, but outrageously fantastic lamb dinner: rosemary lamb noisettes. Wow the people who matter!

Experimentation gone right! Chocolate-covered candied grapefruit is a perfect pairing of citrus and dark chocolate.

I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the Momofuku cookbook just for this one recipe alone: ginger scallion noodles.

Enjoy a simple white bean salad with hints of approaching summer.

I made these lemon macarons for a potluck and viewing of Food, Inc. Find out what we ate and what we discussed!

I am not yet ready to relinquish soup season, at least not when it comes to this soup chocked full of mushroomy loveliness.

The beauty of the one-bowl meal- bibimbap. It’s particularly beautiful when spicy!

The beauty of the Chinese chive: like a marriage of garlic and chives, but better! Try it in this stir fry with pork and bamboo shoots.

Fluffy, light, crispy waffles to go with my bacon…

Simple ingredients, simple recipe, simply amazing result. I love my tortilla de patatas!

Happy little cakes of almond and raspberry. These friands will make anyone’s day.

Get your veggie on with roasted cauliflower. You may think you don’t like cauliflower, but I’m here to tell you you’re wrong.

Some like it hot. Make it as hot as you want (or not): kung pao chicken.

Kicking off the Lunar New Year with something sweet: red bean (azuki) ice cream!

Get ready for the lunar new year and make some stir-fried beef with Chinese BBQ sauce. It’s the Chinese year of the Tiger!

A navy bean is bigger than it seems… Navy bean soup – a bowl of big flavor.

Let’s talk about awesomeness, as in these profiteroles are teh awesomeness. You know you want them…