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Skinny Jambalaya

2011-05-30T19:37:00.001-07:00

This slim down Jambalaya has only 349 Calories per serving. We love the smoky flavor of the turkey. This Jambalaya is great for weight control and yet it doesn't compromise in flavor. It's easy and relatively quick to prepare. We however had not such an easy time finding "smoked turkey drumstick" in our nearby grocery store. It's worth the trouble finding it though, the turkey really gives this Jambalaya a great taste. Click here for the recipe.

Roasted Chicken with Caramelized Onions Soup

2011-05-16T21:24:00.001-07:00

We found this recipe advertised on our Food and Wine Magazine 2009 January Issue. Out of this magazine, this is the first recipe we ever tried and it is on an ad. We decided to make this soup tonight because it looked easy and simple enough to make. We also happened to have all the ingredients already since they are very common staples. This is such a filling and delicious soup and we are so happy that we tried it tonight. The caramelized onions give the soup a very nice smoky and sweet flavor. They make an otherwise ordinary chicken soup a lot more special. This is one of the very best chicken soups we ever had in our lives and we can't believe how such a delicious soup with such complexed and great flavor actually took so little time to make. We highly recommend it. Click here for the recipe.

Blueberries Pancakes

2011-04-06T00:40:00.000-07:00

These pancakes are simply delicious. We love them and our co-workers love them when we brought them to work... Ditch the pancake mix from the grocery stores. Great tasting pancakes are quick and easy to make from scratch. Pancakes that are made from scratch just taste so much better. Click here for the recipe.

Old Fashioned Beef Stew

2011-02-15T23:32:00.000-08:00

This beef stew is very easy to make. It's wholesome and comforting. We usually make a lot of them and freeze them in single serving containers so we can heat up in microwave for a fast and delicious weeknight dinner with rustic crusty bread. Click here for the recipe....

Merry Christmas, My Dear Friends

2010-12-25T19:36:00.001-08:00

Sweet and Sour Pork

2010-10-17T15:54:00.000-07:00

This is not exactly the same kind of "Sweet and Sour Pork" that we grew up with in Hong Kong. But this is not bad. Click here for the recipe...

Tomato and Onion Salmon

2010-04-01T23:03:00.001-07:00

This salmon recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Peppermint Freezer Pie Recipe

2010-03-25T22:26:00.000-07:00

This peppermint freezer pie recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Wilted Spinach Salad Recipe

2010-03-16T22:28:00.000-07:00

We think this dish totally meets our need for the old-fashioned, wholesome diet that we occasionally seek. (yeah... we want to eat healthy, but we don't always stick with it...) Spinach is rich in calcium and potassium which are great for controlling blood pressure... (even though we haven't had a problem in this area yet....).... And mushrooms are good for ??? We don't know yet... may be you can tell us.... We think throwing in just a little bit of egg and a little bit of bacon crisps won't hurt. Afterall, our bodies all need protein to function, right?

Boy, this salad really tasted wonderful. It was easy to make and it's pretty filling. We were told that in the 30s and 40s, this salad was a popular dish served in elegant restaurants in America. The tuxedoed waiters back in those days flambed the dressing ingredients and tossed the salad tableside. Wow, we can imagine what an entertaining scene it must be.... We had never seen waiters made this salad at the tableside. As a matter of fact, we had never even seen this salad on the menus in the restaurants we visited. Fortunately, we can make this tasty salad at home with little effort, click here for the recipe.

Cheddar Bread Twists Recipe

2010-03-09T22:39:00.000-08:00

This cheddar cheese twists recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Szechuan Grilled Flank Steak

2010-03-02T21:42:00.000-08:00

This flank steak recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Sweet-Sour Red Cabbage Recipe

2010-02-22T23:00:00.000-08:00

This red cabbage recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Sweet and Spicy Chicken Stir-Fry

2010-02-19T22:36:00.000-08:00

This chicken stir-fry recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Single Serving Microwave Carrot Cake

2010-02-16T23:22:00.000-08:00

The concept of baking a quick one serving cake using the microwave really intrigued us and got us excited. Unfortunately, the result was far from what we expected. The time we spent mixing up the batter for this one serving cake was not much shorter than the time we typically spent mixing up an oven-baked cake from scratch (no boxed cake mix). The cooking time was of course a few minutes with the microwave versus 25 minutes for oven-baked cake. However, the taste and texture of this cake was not close to the goodness of the traditional oven-baked cake we were expecting. This microwave cake was dry and the texture too spongy. It became even harder and drier after a few minutes. We felt like we were eating a bath scrub.... We wonder if it's really possible to bake any cake at all using microwave... or it's just our taste bud that we don't like eating cake in such texture? For those of you who are curious and who are willing to spend a little time to try this out, you can click here for the recipe.

Quick 'n' Tangy Beef Stir-Fry

2010-02-11T23:37:00.000-08:00

This beef stir-fry recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Cottage Cheese Yeast Rolls Recipe

2010-02-09T22:01:00.000-08:00

This cheese roll recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Easy Make-at-Home Chinese Chicken

2010-02-04T10:45:00.000-08:00

This chicken recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Rustic Nut Bars Recipe

2010-02-01T14:52:00.000-08:00

This nuts bar recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Chicken Chow Mein

2010-01-30T19:32:00.000-08:00

This chicken chow mein recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Apple Butter Cake Roll Recipe

2010-01-28T17:39:00.000-08:00

This apple cake recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Stir-Fry Tomato Beef

2010-01-28T00:07:00.001-08:00

This beef stir-fry recipe is featured in the 3 Books in 1: Chinese, Thai, Japanese Cookbook, how do you like it? Click on the picture to get the recipe.

Broccoli Chicken Fettuccine Recipe

2010-01-25T16:16:00.000-08:00

This chicken fettuccine recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Italian Sausage Egg Bake Recipe

2010-01-22T17:13:00.000-08:00

This breakfast recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Citrus Cranberry Tea Recipe

2010-01-21T16:10:00.000-08:00

This tea recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Simple Fried Rice Recipe

2010-01-20T00:24:00.000-08:00

Without even looking at our grocery receipt and sitting down to divide every item we bought by tablespoons and then to muliply by the number of tablespoons we used in this recipe, we are pretty sure that we made this rice dish for four people for much less than $5.00.

We love this recipe because we love fried rice. When we were growing up, our mothers always made fried rice using leftover from the fridge: leftover steamed rice, leftover ham, vegetables, shrimps, bbq pork, etc. Fried rice is just a Chinese way to use up leftover scraps. The best fried rice is actually made with cold rice from the fridge. Freshly steamed rice will make the fried rice too mushy. The fried rice will get stucked to the wok and is difficut to flip and stir if freshly steamed rice is used. Fried rice was never meant to be a dish made out of freshly cooked rice, it's always meant to be a dish to use up leftovers from previous meals.

So after buying a package of bacon and a bunch of green onions for the salad we made the other night, we decided to use up the bacon by making Chinese fried rice out of it. We never really liked bacon, cause we found it too salty, hard and crispy when eaten alone. Bacon is just not our cup of tea. Just we needed the dripping and the bacon bits to try out this salad recipe..... we were stucked with a whole package of it.

Surprisingly, the bacon worked very well with the fried rice and we really enjoyed the way it seasoned the fried rice and the texture it added. Mixed with the fried rice and green onion, the greasiness and fatty texture of the bacons (we didn't cook it to a hard chip) became not noticeable. Instead, we felt like we were having some really tasty meat or ham with fried rice. A bowl of fried rice just brought back childhood memories of how our mothers used to feed us a bowl of fried rice and an apple or an orange for our lunch. Fried rice is often eaten as a side dish here in America, but it was always the one dish meal for our families... This explains why we are skinny even when we don't care for eating low-fat health food...Click here to see this cheap and easy fried rice recipe.

Ham 'n' Broccoli Triangles Recipe

2010-01-18T10:42:00.000-08:00

This ham recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Walnut Blue Cheese Coins

2010-01-14T20:45:00.001-08:00

This blue cheese crackers recipe is featured on the Martha Stewart Living Magazine November 1997 issue, how do you like it?

Chicken Spareribs Recipe

2010-01-13T17:20:00.000-08:00

This chicken recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

No Bake Maple Praline Cheesecake

2010-01-12T17:43:00.000-08:00

We love cheesecakes but we are no good at baking. The idea of a no bake cheesecake is what motivated us to make our first dessert last night. This cheesecake tasted very good yet we failed to get the firmness of a regular cheesecake out of it even we put it in the fridge for over 1 hour as we were instructed. We absolutely loved eating this cheesecake, just we wish it could be firmer in texture. We wonder may be 1 1/3 cup of cold milk is too much liquid for the filling? What do you think? We think next time we will make it with 3/4 cup cold milk instead. You can click here to get the recipe.

Sweet Potato Hash Browns Recipe

2010-01-11T11:33:00.000-08:00

This sweet potato recipe is featured on the Martha Stewart Living Magazine November 1997 issue, how do you like it?

Hot Crab Pinwheels Recipe

2010-01-08T19:07:00.000-08:00

This crab pinwheels recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Linguine with Butternut Squash, Spinach, and Mussels

2010-01-07T20:01:00.000-08:00

This linguine recipe is featured on the Bon Appetit Magazine Oct 2009 issue, how do you like it?

Cherry Almond Cups Recipe

2010-01-06T16:05:00.000-08:00

This cherry almond cookie recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Hearty Beef Soup Recipe

2010-01-05T17:17:00.001-08:00

This beef soup recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Pesto Mozzarella Cheese Cups

2010-01-03T10:22:00.000-08:00

Our New Year's cocktail party this year was an effortless orchestration because we chose to serve easy finger foods with refreshing "easy to concoct" cocktail drinks. This is one of the appetizers that gave us a lot of applause from our guests. This pairs very well with the apple cider punch, wine or beer. It is one of those impressive looking appetizers that is incredibily easy to make. It's an appetizer which has the perfect ingredients that complement each others so well; that it's very sophiscated tasting, yet deliciously uncomplicated with a very pleasant melt-in-the-mouth crispiness. We totally love it!! Click here for the recipe!!

Grape Pizza Recipe

2009-12-30T18:04:00.000-08:00

This pizza recipe looks like a great appetizer for the holiday party. How do you like it?? Click here to find the recipe.

Wild Rice Pilaf Recipe

2009-12-29T14:27:00.001-08:00

This rice recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Baked Sweet Potatoes With Sour Cream and Brown Sugar

2009-12-28T10:29:00.000-08:00

This sweet potato recipe is featured on the Martha Stewart Living Magazine November 1997 issue, how do you like it?

Five-Spice Salmon Fillets Recipe

2009-12-24T13:46:00.000-08:00

We don't know why, we always dread about cooking fish. We love eating fish, steamed and cooked the way our mothers did when we were growing up. But we had never attempted cooking any fish here in America. One reason is, it's not easy to find a live fish to take home like our mothers do. We don't like frozen fish. Another reason is, we can't easily find the kind of whole fish here in America that are Chinese cooking friendly. We don't really like the meaty fish fillets available here if they are steamed in the Chinese way. So we just don't bother. One day, talking to our mothers long distance, complaining about how we were craving for the steamed live fishes they made for us almost everyday, our mothers told us to cure our fish craving by getting salmon and pan-fry it with soysauce and green onions. So we went get the fresh salmon fillets, $7.99 per pound. It's not really anything that is budget friendly for those who want to make a meal for $5 or less. But we needed the fish and we got to have it at all cost. When we were ready to cook the salmon like our mothers advised, we realized we forgot to buy green onions. Co-incidentally, one of us tumbled upon this salmon recipe that uses five-spice powder (we always have a bottle of five-spice powder in our pantry) with no green onion required. So we gave this American recipe a try. Wow, we totally loved it. The five spice powder makes the salmon taste incredibly delicious. This recipe is so easy and so short. It only requires so few ingredients. It's amazing how a simple recipe like this can churn out a great tasting dish within a very short time. We pair the salmon with baby green bak choys ($1.19 for a 1.5lb bag from a Chinese grocery store) and steamed rice. So the whole meal for 4 people costed may be about $10.00. So worth it, considering it's fresh, delicious and healthy meal for the skinny people like us!! We highly recommend it. Click here for the recipe from the Good Housekeeping website. You will see a comment there from someone who thinks the recipe makes the fish too salty and who dislikes the recipe. Don't listen to that cause we don't know how much salt and five-spice powder that user used. The amont of seasoning the recipe calls for to prep the 4 fillets, from our own experience, is just perfect. As far as five spice powder goes, we use the ones from Taiwan. We are sure the Mccommick brand also carries five spice powder that are widely available in regular American gorcery stores.

Cornflakes Chocolate Chips Cookies

2009-12-23T10:54:00.000-08:00

Today is my last day at work before the Christmas holdiays begin. This means it's my last chance to give my co-workers their presents. Money is tight for me because I had spent too much money eating out in fancy restaurants (spent $80 for lunch just yesterday in Ivy in Beverly Hills and the food wasn't really that good) and buying cook books. In a desperation to save money, I found this cookie recipe on the internet and baked several dozens last night without much effort, packed them in boxes and just gave each of my fellow co-workers a box. They love them and are eating them at this moment with coffee. I'm relieved the Christmas gifting ordeal is officially over for this year. I don't cook much and am not good at cooking. So when I looked for cookie recipes, they have to be easy enough for me to do, and yet unique and special enough for me to make an effort to bake them at home. (or why bother, cause I can always buy the same old cookies from Costco) These cookies are just perfect cause I had never had chocolate chips cookies like these before, they have this special and flavorful crunch which makes the cookies more fun to chew on and a lot more tasty than the usual classics baked by everybody else.

Two-Tone Potato Wedges Recipe

2009-12-22T16:29:00.000-08:00

This potato recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Christmas Clam Chowder Recipe

2009-12-21T13:26:00.000-08:00

This clam chowder recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Cup Brownies With White Chocolate Pecan Frosting

2009-12-20T11:11:00.000-08:00

We don't have sweet teeth because we were raised in a non-sweet Asian diet. We also never cared too much for sweet stuff because we want to maintain our 4 to 6 sizes. But these brownies are, at this moment of our lives, the best brownies we ever had, they are melt-in-the-mouth yummy treats that we couldn't stop eating. We baked 24 last-night and they were all gone! We were shocked that we could do this. We normally could only take one bite of the store bought brownie or restaurant baked brownie and we felt sick to the stomach already. But these brownies tasted so good, each of us could take in several and still wanted more. We didn't have any sick feeling. We now realize brownies made with natural ingredients and the right amount of real butter are much better than those made with artificial shortenings, or whatever it is that only one bite makes us feel nauseous already. We realize there is no point in using margerine or whatever butter substitute that don't nearly taste good but only give us a bloating stomach. Click here to see the recipe for these delightful brownies. Besides, why use margerine since butter had done no harm to us, we are still in sizes 4 to 6. The secret to our slim figures is, not to over eat on a daily basis...but do enjoy the real good stuff once in a full moon.

Oak Leaf Cookies

2009-12-17T20:02:00.000-08:00

This cookie recipe is featured on the Martha Stewart Living Magazine November 1997 issue, how do you like it?

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Turkey Meatloaf with Mushrooms and Herbs

2009-12-16T23:26:00.000-08:00

This turkey meatloaf recipe is featured on the Bon Appetit Magazine October 2009 issue, how do you like it?
Also, we have some free gifts for all of you foodies out there.. Please click here to participate.

Macadamia-Crusted Tilapia Recipe

2009-12-15T15:10:00.000-08:00

This tilapia recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?Also, we have some free gifts for all of you foodies out there.. Please click here to participate.

Foodies Friendship Giveaway

2009-12-14T16:41:00.000-08:00

We are giving away the above novel. When you decide to take a break from the kitchen to chill out in your porch or you want to pack that great lunch you just cooked up, to eat at a park, or by the beach, this book will be your great company.

A foodie winner will be picked by computer randomly on December 20th, 2009. Below are the rules for participation:

You have a U.S. shipping address (we don't ship outside USA)

Become our blog's follower.
Put a comment on this post to express your desire to participate.

Good Luck.

Linguini With Italian Meatballs

2009-12-12T23:21:00.000-08:00

This is the first time we make meatballs and we are thrilled to be able to skip the frying procedure that our mothers' recipes call for. These meatballs are totally delicious and moist. We love them so much and we are so definitely going to make a whole bunch of them in advance to make our weekday dinners preparation a tasty bliss! Click here to find the recipe.

Also, we have some free gifts for all of you foodies out there.. Please click here to participate.

Maple Walnut Rolls Recipe

2009-12-10T16:51:00.001-08:00

This breakfast roll recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it? Also, we have some free gifts for all of you foodies out there.. Please click here to participate.

Smoked Salmon Tomato Pizza Recipe

2009-12-09T18:37:00.001-08:00

This pizza recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Also, we have some free gifts for all of you foodies out there.. Please click here to participate.

Cream Cheese Cranberry Muffins Recipe

2009-12-08T16:39:00.000-08:00

This muffin recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?
Also, we have some free gifts for all of you foodies out there.. Please click here to participate.

Ho-Ho-Ho Hummus-Topped Cucumbers Recipe

2009-12-07T16:41:00.000-08:00

This cucumber recipe looks like a great appetizer for the holiday party. Click here to find the recipe.

Also, we have some free gifts for all of you foodies out there.. Please click here to participate.

Cod with Mussels, Chorizo, Fried Croutons, and Saffron Mayonnaise

2009-12-04T20:54:00.000-08:00

This cod recipe is featured on the Bon Appetit Magazine Oct 2009 issue, how do you like it?

Also, we have some free gifts for all of you foodies out there.. Please click here to participate.

Cappuccino Truffles Recipe

2009-12-03T16:54:00.000-08:00

This truffles recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

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Mexican Beef Vegetable Soup

2009-12-02T14:29:00.000-08:00

We love this soup so much cause we're able to quickly make it really fresh anytime we feel hungry and we want something wholesome, nutritious and tasty. (no advanced prepping, no heating up of leftover from freezer, we don't really like frozen food if we have a choice...) Click here to read the recipe.

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About Us

2009-12-01T15:48:00.000-08:00

Before we introduce ourselves, we want you to know that we have a foodie giveaway, click here for detail.

We are a bunch of hungry friends who went broke just eating out and obsessively buying cookbooks. All of us together own over 4000 cook books that are published in Japanese, Chinese, or English that cover cooking from literatelly every cultural perspective. One day, we decided that we would save some money; by may be trying out some of the recipes from our cookbooks instead of drooling over them and go break our wallets for dinners at fancy restaurants every night. We have very little experience in cooking, we never enjoyed the tidious cooking process cause we grew up never had to enter the kitchen for anything. Our cookbook buying addiction had gotten so serious that our cookbooks are literally burying us. Since we can't find a re-hab facility to cure our addiction, we started this blog. We hope to channel our obsession on cookbooks to reading recipe online and learning to actually cook instead.

Each recipe we feature here represents the itch that was driving us to the bookstore, but that was relieved by a wonderful recipe we found on the internet. Some of the recipes here, we have cooked them and tried them and loved them. You can find them here... Other recipes are just pure little patches that we used to soothe our cook book buying itch when it started kicking in. Not all recipes on all blogs and websites can effectively curb our urge to go to the bookstore. Since we grew up with good food at great restaurants, we are only interested in recipes that can provide that great tastes we experienced. In our opinion, life is too short to even attempt in cooking anything that doesn't tastes good. You can save money all you want by cooking crappy food, but you can't buy back every moment in you life you spent eating crappy food. So, we are selective and we only choose great recipes to post here. If you think your blog has a great tasting recipe like that and want to impress our picky palletes, please email us.

Note: Unlike many blogs out there which copy recipe in its entirety from another website or blog, and only put a link that says, "adapted from", we think this is not proper cause no reader will click on that link back to the original site or blog when they can see the whole recipe right there already. Therefore, we don't post the recipe, unless it's orginated from us or our sister blog that is owned by us, we only post our opinion on the recipe and send visitors to the orginator's site or blog if they really want to read about the actual recipe. We think this is the only right thing to do. We believe that copying and pasting the whole recipe from another site is just wrong (even though a fine print link was put to link back to the original blog or site).

Gingerbread Cupcakes

2009-11-28T21:05:00.001-08:00

These pretty cupcakes are such festive treats for Christmas. How would you like them as handmade Christmas gifts? Click here to find recipes.

Apple Cider Punch

2009-11-27T12:15:00.001-08:00

I made this last night at a Thanksgiving dinner party that I attended. It was a potluck and every guest had to contribute to the Thanksgiving menu. I offered to prepare this beverage because it was easy and I didn't have to do any cooking at home and worry about carrying it and driving it to the party.. I just brought a couple bottles of sparkling wine and used the orange juice, apple cider and lemon juice that were already in the host's fridge and I made the punch at the party right after everybody had arrived. It was such an easy and exotic cocktail recipe that I had pulled off very successful even it was my first trial. It's a fool-proof beverage to make for a big crowd in a couple minutes. It was a big hit and there was no one drop of the punch left in the punch bowl after dinner. I doubled up the recipe and I used organe juice. Next time, I would like to try making it with the cranberry-juice that the recipe also suggested. Click here to see the recipe.

Homemade Bratwurst Bites with Beer and Horseradish Mustard

2009-11-26T09:06:00.001-08:00

This Bratwurst recipe is featured on the Bon Appetit Magazine Oct 2009 issue, how do you like it?

Mocha Nut Torte Recipe

2009-11-25T12:46:00.000-08:00

This torte recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Brisket Braised in Porter

2009-11-24T09:40:00.000-08:00

This brisket recipe is featured on the Bon Appetit Magazine Oct 2009 issue, how do you like it?

Caramel-Crunch Pumpkin Pie Recipe

2009-11-23T13:50:00.001-08:00

This pumpkin pie recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Citrus-Avocado Salad

2009-11-22T14:59:00.000-08:00

This recipe is featured in the book "Test Kitchen Favorites: 75 Years of Recipes Too Good To Be Forgotten" . You can also find the recipe here.

This recipe was first published by Better Homes & Garden in 1939. One of the ingredients in this recipe is pomegranate seeds. We don't know how widely available were avocados and pomegranate seeds back in 1939 in America since none of us are native of this country, but even with such ingredients easily found in our grocery stores today, we still find this salad refreshing and exotic in today's food-rich culture. The combination of avocado and pomegranate seeds in a salad? We haven't had such an exotic salad even in restaurants in Santa Monica or anywhwere in our metropoltian hometowns in Asia....and we live and breathe in the restaurants all over the world... We've got to try to make this one at home for sure. We love this book cause it shows us a lot of America's history. Amazing what one can learn from a cookbook, no wonder we can't stop buying them... We can only imagine how innovative and forward thinking the American cooks were in 1939. That was before even Julia Child's stint in France. We can't help but wonder why couldn't she look back at her home turf for cooking inspiration. From what I heard from her, it was France that introduced the world of good food to her. May be she would have started cooking earlier if only she had subsribed to the Better Homes & Garden magazines. And just how many Americans in 1939 were oblivious to this forward-thinking recipe, like Julia Child was?

Shrimp Skewers

2009-11-21T09:57:00.000-08:00

This shrimp recipe looks like a great appetizer for the holiday party. Click here to find the recipe.

Gingered Orange Beets Recipe

2009-11-20T12:05:00.000-08:00

This beets recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Spicy Cranberry Jam

2009-11-19T11:32:00.000-08:00

This cranberry recipe is featured on the Martha Stewart Living Magazine November 1997 issue, how do you like it?

German-Style Fried Potatoes

2009-11-18T12:02:00.000-08:00

This potato recipe is featured on the Bon Appetit Magazine Oct 2009 issue, how do you like it?

Smoked Thanksgiving Turkey

2009-11-17T11:19:00.001-08:00

As my quest for a great tasting and enticing looking turkey continues, I found this turkey recipe on a very interesting food blog that I would like to share with you.... You can go to Chaos In The Kitchen for the recipe. Out of that delicously chaotic kitchen of the blog's author, you can even pick up some great side dishes to pair with this mouth-watering bird.

Roasted Free-Range Turkey with Pear Chestnut Stuffing

2009-11-16T10:40:00.000-08:00

Is cooking a turkey really a huge task? I have been reading cooking blogs hoping to find a good turkey recipe that presents an enticing bird prepared by the common folks... (not a chef, not a celebrity cook or a cooking magazine that have 100 years of experience in roasting a pretty turkey...) But I can't seem to have much luck. Lots of blogs don't even blog about a roast whole turkey. Very few do but their birds don't look too good. So I have to once again refer to my favorite guru, Martha Stewart, for a turkey recipe... I just hope with my limited cooking ability, I can manage to reproduce this turkey in my kitchen, without disfiguring its pretty physical appeal...
This turkey recipe is featured on the Martha Stewart Living Magazine November 1997 issue, how do you like it?

Roasted Chicken Drumsticks & Vegetables In Plum Sauce Under $5

2009-11-13T17:22:00.000-08:00

I made this tonight for dinner. The preparation is extremely simple and fast. Love this dinner a lot better than the usual take-out I get. Making a good home cooked dinner is not as much trouble as I thought. I can't get any take-out dinner for 4 anywhere cheaper than this, I bought the drumsticks for $2.20, vegetables for $0.88 from Ralph's manager sale tonight. The steam rice I served this with was from the Chinese restaurant leftover my client treated me to 3 days ago. The seasonings are already in my pantry and have been there for a while, glad that I found this recipe to use up the plum sauce that my mother gave me when she won a whole box of 2 dozen from some charity lucky draw she attended... You can find the recipe here.

Pumpkin Soup With Red Pepper Mousse

2009-11-12T16:59:00.000-08:00

This is a great soup to slowly begin the Thanksgiving feast. Get the recipe from Gourmet.com.

Brandied Chocolate

2009-11-11T14:21:00.000-08:00

This hot chocolate has so much holiday spirit that it's the "beverage" for the holidays. You can find the recipe on Gourmet.com

Quick Sticks

2009-11-10T12:17:00.000-08:00

This recipe was originally featured in Martha Stewart Living Magazine November 1997 issue in the article "Making Crackers", sort of to give readers an idea of making cracker gifts for the holidays. When brainstorming for money saving ideas, I suddenly remember this article I read when I was in college... glad to find the recipe updated on Martha Stewart's Website with how-to video.

Braised Pork Chops with Cabbage and Carrot-Parsnip Puree

2009-11-06T11:01:00.000-08:00

This pork chop recipe is featured on the Martha Stewart Living Magazine November 1997 issue, how do you like it?

Braised Beef Short ribs with Red Wine Gravy and Swiss Chard

2009-11-04T23:26:00.000-08:00

This short rib recipe is featured on the Bon Appetit Magazine Oct 2009 issue, how do you like it?

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Sour Cream Cutouts Cookies

2009-11-03T12:37:00.000-08:00

This cookie recipe is featured on the Taste of Home Magazine Dec 2007 issue, how do you like it?

M&M's Pumpkin Cake

2009-10-30T12:07:00.000-07:00

This is one cute cake we got to bake for this Halloween!!!

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Fig Cake

2009-10-23T14:13:00.001-07:00

This recipe is featured on the Oprah Magazine December 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Lane Cake

2009-10-20T11:34:00.001-07:00

This recipe is featured on the Oprah Magazine December 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Basler Läckerli

2009-10-18T19:11:00.000-07:00

This recipe is featured on the Oprah Magazine December 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Cream Cheese-Chocolate Chip Cookies

2009-10-15T23:31:00.001-07:00

This recipe is featured on the Oprah Magazine December 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Roasted Prime Rib

2009-10-14T11:49:00.001-07:00

This recipe is featured on the Oprah Magazine December 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Rockerfeller Style Crab

2009-10-12T20:30:00.000-07:00

This recipe is from the cookbook Homemade in No Time. It's very easy to prepare and only takes 15 minutes to prep. It tastes great and is such a balanced dish full of proteins and fibres. But the problem of using canned crabmeat is that there are always the softbones here and there mingled with the meat. We love this dish despite the occasional soft crab bone we chewed on... This recipe is also featured on the Better Homes and Garden website. By the way, does anyone know why this is called the Rockerfeller Style Crab? If you do, please let us know!

Smoked Turkey-Sweet Potato Tamales

2009-10-09T00:23:00.000-07:00

This recipe is featured on the Oprah Magazine December 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Whipped Salt Cod with Caviar on Steamed Potatoes

2009-10-07T22:52:00.000-07:00

This recipe is featured on the Oprah Magazine December 2007 issue, how do you like it?

Richmond Eggnog

2009-10-06T20:17:00.000-07:00

This is an eggnog recipe from Oprah Magazine's December 2007 Issue. How do you like this one?

Chestnut Soup

2009-09-26T16:02:00.000-07:00

This is celebrity chef, Fabio Trabocchi's favorite holiday dish from childhood.

English Pot Pie

2009-09-25T12:26:00.001-07:00

This recipe was featured as one of the Christmas tradition stories in Oprah's Magazine in 2007 December. How do you like this signature meatt pie from England?

Tasty Chicken With Garlic Gravy

2009-05-12T15:04:00.000-07:00

This dish is fantastic. Juicy, tasty and easy to make. Great for dinner.... Made it last night and I had to lick my plate for the gravy... Click here to find the recipe ....

Not Your Usual Jello: Coffee And Coconut Milk Jelly

2009-03-27T12:31:00.001-07:00

Wow, this is a very unique jelly that I have not seen before. The look itself is impressively pretty. I haven't had this kind of desert for years. And I definitely hadn't had one like this.

You can find the recipe from here.... (this blog got some real great Asian Desserts. I love this blog.)

An All-American Supper

2009-03-18T21:21:00.000-07:00

This menu is from the cookbook "Cooking Around the Clock - Rachael Ray 30 minutes Meals" :

Pork Chops with Golden Applesauce
Creamy Corn
Lemon-Scented Broccolini

Lemon Scented Broccolini

2009-03-17T00:50:00.000-07:00

This is a recipe from the cookbook "Cooking Around the Clock - Rachael Ray 30 minutes Meals" . I made this as one of the side dishes for Rachael Ray's menu: "An All-American Supper". I think it's too blend and too plain. It doesn't have enough taste even though lemon zest is added. If you like plain tasting vegetable, then you can find the recipe on the Food Network website.

Apple Raisin Oven Pancake

2009-03-07T12:17:00.000-08:00

I am now having this as breakfast while typing this post. The dish looks great and the ingredients are easy to gather. The reason I made this breakfast this morning is because I have a leftover apple and raisins from last time when I was cooking Rachael Ray's All American Pork Chop Dinner. Thank god, I finally used up all the leftover ingredients from that recipe. Now my fridge is empty and clean (I prefer my fridge to be empty and clean cause that means I can once again eat out at my favorite restaurants which I won't do as long as I have food items in my fridge. It's just my routine...)

As for the taste of this breakfast dish, I'm just not too crazy about it. The texture isn't the same like "Pancakes" , it's more like a "quiche and very dense custard combo in between". Since I'm not into quiche, I'm not too crazy about this dish. It also is not sweet enough for me. I would like it to be sweeter without me sprinkling powder sugar constantly while eating. The dish doesn't tastes bad, it definitely smells good but it's just that I would like it to have a texture that is like a typical pancake. For those of you who want to try out this breakfast, you can click here for the recipe. May be you will love it.

All-in-One Burger Stew

2009-03-02T12:39:00.000-08:00

This delicious stew is fast and very easy to make. For that little time and efforts I put into it, the stew turned out to be very yummy. I served this with flaky buttermilk biscuits baked out of the canned dough. I always think good stews take hours to make, obvioiusly not. I am so happy I found this recipe because it's by far easier and faster than all the 30-minute Meals I learnt from Rachael Ray. The short list of ingredients make this recipe a winner for busy weeknight dinners. Leftovers even tasted better the next day when I had it for lunch at work. You can find the recipe here on this website.

Veg•All® Vinaigrette Salad

2009-02-25T12:54:00.000-08:00

This salad is so healthy, and the black beans in the salad provide all the fulfilling proteins that I need for a meal. It's extremely yummy so it becomes one of my favorite lunch salads with a piece of whole wheat garlic toast. It's a great lunch to be brought to work, and it's great lunch whenever I need to stay on diet for a couple weeks to lose some pounds. Most importantly, it takes no time to assemble and lunches like this just help me save a lot of money. You can find the recipe on this website.

Indoor Picnic Menu - Fancy Fireside Picnic

2009-02-18T08:56:00.001-08:00

Wow, reading the menu alone gets me drooling. What an enticing menu that includes a rich list of seemingly great dishes. I think this menu will be a great one for any dinner party. What do you think? I have yet to try it but I feel like getting my picnic basket ready. The recipes can be found on Hallmark Magazine's Website.

Creamy Corn

2009-02-17T14:39:00.000-08:00

This is a recipe from the cookbook "Cooking Around the Clock - Rachael Ray 30 minutes Meals" . I made this as one of the side dishes on Valentine's Day. It was so good. Everybody basically fought for the last corn kernel. Fantastic recipe. I used frozen corn and it tasted excellent and it saved me a lot of time. You can find this recipe on Food Network's website.

Pork Chops with Golden Applesauce

2009-02-10T23:52:00.000-08:00

I tried this recipe tonight and it was delicious. The applesauce and the pork chop is a perfect tasty combo. I also made the Lemon-scented Broccolini from the same 30-minute meal menu, which was also good. I spent about 1.5 hours in making these 2 dishes. Felt too tired so I dropped the creamy corn from the menu. It was a delicious dinner. But it took some time to make. Washing and peeling the apple, chopping them, and peeling the lemon zest all take time. I don't suggest people making these if they just got off work hungry, but this is definitely a great dinner on weekends. This is my first time cooking a recipe from Rachael Ray ... I have to agree with her, it's delish... you can find the recipe from the Food Network website.

Carbonara

2009-01-31T00:29:00.000-08:00

This is a recipe from the cookbook "Cooking Around the Clock - Rachael Ray 30 minutes Meals" . The recipe can also be found on Delish.com. The recipe in the book suggests 1/2 cup grated Locatelli Brand Romano Cheese. Carbonara is believed to be the most popular pasta dish in Italy. Haven't tried this recipe yet but would like to hear from you if you had... Give some comments.

Devilish Chili-Cheese Dogs

2009-01-28T16:22:00.000-08:00

This is a recipe from the cookbook "Cooking Around the Clock - Rachael Ray 30 minutes Meals" . The recipe can also be found on the food network website. Haven't tried this recipe yet but would like to hear from you if you had... Give some comments.