Southern California We are on our way home from Paris as we speak. But when we return home, we are planning an opening day menu to celebrate our favorite major league baseball team and hopes for a winning season. Peanuts are the theme and you will find them in every dish. So let’s celebrate and…
Hometown Recipe is a Home Run
Fort Worth, Texas This Kung Pao Chicken recipe is a home run. It is the featured entree for our Peanutty MLB Opening Day party menu. Pair it with our other peanutty dishes for a baseball party your guests will never forget. Peanutty Opening Day Party Menu Vegetable and Peanut Spring Rolls with Asian Dipping…
Easy Technique for Party Perfect Presentation
Mission Viejo, California Continuing with our MLB Opening Day party planning, Chicken Satay with Spicy Peanut Sauce is featured. An easy technique ensures the presentation is party perfect. When your guests arrive, set your appetizer table with Fresh Spring Rolls, Chicken Satay and a bowl full of peanuts in the shell. It all says: “Yippee,…
Spring Rolls in with High Hopes for the Baseball Season
Tempe, Arizona Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd; Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don’t care if I ever get back. Let me root, root, root for the home team, If they don’t win, it’s a shame. For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out, At…
Bahn Mi Meets Texas
Fort Worth, Texas It was certainly not a typical Bahn Mi sandwich. Elements of the traditional Vietnamese sandwich, like the roasted pork and pickled vegetables, were “Tex-ified”. We were inspired by the flavors and textures of the “Bourbon and Coke Pork ‘Bahn Mi’ Taco” at the Woodshed Smokehouse. With our Texas experience, we infused our…
Rays of Sunshine Inside and Out
Somewhere in the Puget Sound, Washington It is like drinking in a ray of sunshine: fresh squeezed orange juice. We have been purchasing bags of gorgeous oranges at Whole Foods lately and squeezing them for sweet, tangy and vitamin C-filled goodness. It makes my mouth water just thinking about it. Mapping the Day Days…
Chronicles of People Watching
Santa Ana, California We could write a book about our people-watching habit. As we slurped on French onion soup a few weeks ago at a popular scene in Santa Ana, our view of the bar and adjacent tables gave us new chapters for our ever-growing chronicles. And, the soup at Chapter One was fabulous. Our…
Say “Cheese” in This Lakeside Resort Town
Lake Arrowhead, California Back in our days as full-time residents of this picturesque lakeside resort, we frequented a local restaurant near the Lake Arrowhead Village. We likened it to our version of the TV “Cheers” bar. We often ordered a Parmesan-crusted sourdough sandwich with melted cheese, roast beef and tomato. Here’s our version of the…
Salty Air and Salty Chips
Dana Point Harbor, California Salty, housemade potato chips drizzled with creamy blue cheese sauce and scallions called my name when we sat down for a late afternoon meal in Dana Point Harbor. For our recipe, we don’t attempt home made chips. The blue cheese sauce and scallions are a delicious topping on our favorite store-bought…
When in the Keys, Eat Conch
The Keys, Florida When in the Florida Keys, you have not done it right until you at least try Conch. I would liken it to clams. Plentiful there, it is incorporated into fritters, chowders and ceviches. We first tried it in fritters. I must admit, I like the fritter part best. We have substituted conch…