In this last installment of my California food adventures I wanted to share with you something I only do with my friends from HB - going to Little India and the chaat shop to get Indian snack foods. Little India is located along a part of Pioneer Boulevard in Artesia...
Let me continue with the eating adventures we had on my recent trip to California. I took you through the first 24 hours. Now let me tell you about some old favorites and some new discoveries. (By the way, the lovely creature featured at the top is from our favorite...
Recently I bought a bag of farro. I'd been interested in cooking with this grain and decided it was time. Unfortunately the bag sat for several weeks because I didn't have a clue what to make. After some research I found that common uses for farro include soups,...
It's another snowy day in New England and I find myself wishing I was back in Southern California as I was a few weeks ago. In spite of our friends' apologies for the "bad" weather, those of us from the East Coast were loving the warm 60-degree temperatures and not...
A couple of weeks ago we had our first Moveable Feast of 2014. It started with a delivery from Amazon of a book most of the group members hadn't ordered but with instructions from our hosts that the recipes for the next Feast would come from the enclosed. The cookbook...
When I was home in December we found some beautiful apple bananas at the farmer's market. My sister decided to make a coconut tapioca pudding with some of the bananas added in. The dish isn't terribly photogenic but it's yummy. Apple bananas The pudding starts with...
Update 2021: Sadly both Ming's Chinese Restaurant and Raging Crab are no longer in business. I can't believe it's nearly the end of January and this is my first post of the year. I got back from my holiday vacations at home in Hawaii and got thrown into the thick of...