Salads are easy all year round if you consider a lovely warm lentil salad with sausage after a day in the snow. Wooo!

This lemon tart is light, bright, flaky, creamy, sweet, and tangy. A great reason to pucker up in February!

I’m done looking for my ideal biscuit – the angel biscuit is it.

Here’s a nice dinner idea if you are planning Valentine’s dinner at home: crusted roast rack of lamb!

I have both a sea-level and a high altitude version of this lovely apple cake filled with raisins and walnuts.

This is the stuff I grew up on – stir fried mi fun (rice noodle vermicelli) with vegetables and pork.

Perfectly chewy and peanutty gluten-free peanut butter cookies.

One of my favorite vegetables when I was growing up – soybean sprouts. A simple, healthy, and satisfying dish.

There is nothing that warms you to the core the way a bowl of piping hot, French onion soup laden with melted cheese can!

Lychee grapefruit martini.

In defiance of the heavy, sleepy-making holiday fare, I give you a salad of roast beets, hazelnuts, chevre, and blood oranges. hee hee.

A lovely frozen chocolate dessert with a caffeinated kick: espresso chocolate sorbet.

We’re celebrating Kaweah’s birthday with a simple taco seasoning.

I’ll grill when I want to and when it comes to these Korean BBQ-style burgers, I want to!

Something for the holiday spirit – red fruits are my favorite festive component to any dessert like this pomegranate chocolate mousse cake.

At last, a moist cornbread that doesn’t tank on me. It’s good. Very good!

The only thing better than tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich is homemade tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich.

Holiday baking and candy making is underway starting with these creamy mocha truffles.

I made these gorgeous barbecue ribs per the recipes and cooking instructions of ten time world champion pitmaster Chris Lilly. AWESOME!

Bucking tradition, we had tempura squid stuffed with spicy tuna for Thanksgiving!

A family favorite, Chinese Lion’s head meatballs according to my Dad.