Brined and everything ... first lesson learned: check to make sure that the turkey is 'fresh' and not injected with saline solution before brining second lesson learned: defrost the turkey at least a day before brining and if bought fresh there is no need to put it in the freezer ... duh! live and learn :-) brine courtesy of all recipes dot com: in

I know valentine is over, but i saw these on coco&medotcom and fell in love :-) and you can always make them for mother's day! ingredients: makes 6 strawberry hearts - 6 oz. valhrona white chocolate - a dozen pistachio - 1 pint strawberry (it's good to have extra and some dark chocolate to make some chocolate covered strawberries too while you are

When is it a cup cake and when is it a muffin? for the curious george and georginette check out the faceoff: cupcakes vs muffins at cakespy (just click on their cute drawing) i love this one test: "if you threw a cupcake against the wall, you would hear something of a 'poof!' if you threw a muffin, you would hear a 'thud!'" :p so this morning i mad

I finally tried my hand at making 'orangette' for a touch of paris in the spring,since my best friends went to paree without me :-) plus we still have tons of oranges on the tree and i hate to see the peels go to to waste, so here goes... i am pleased to report the result in these pics and as far as taste ... they are ... yummy, chewy /tangy /sweet

This is the first time i make a white chocolate whipping cream, and boy i don't think i'll go back to plain whipping cream ... :-) and i have to confess that i like white chocolate a bit more every day ;-) the white choco chantilly recipe is from cannelle et vanille, a gorgeous baking blog, check it out. ingredients: 4 servings (or 3 if using large

This has become my signature salad because ... i make it just about once a week. :-) ingredients: - 6 cups spinach ( i like the leaves to be a bit thicker so no baby spinach please) - 1 fuji apple (preferably organic, if not peel the thick/glossy skin please) - 1/2 cup cheese grated ( i like trader joe's toscano with black pepper, but you can use p

This is for the 'health' nut :-) it's refreshing and amazingly tasty. no cooking involved, all you need is a blender ! ingredients: - 2 parts fruit ( we had some frozen organic peach, mango pineapple from costco and some cut up frozen bananas so in they went :-)) banana is a key ingredient. - 1 part beet and kale - some organic almond milk preparat

Another recipe adapted from allrecipes.com's orange, walnut, gorgonzola and mixed greens salad with fresh citrus vinaigrette. i used cuties instead of oranges. what's cuties? well, they are these cute hybrid fruit that's a cross between a sweet orange and a chinese mandarin, sometimes called clementines as well i think. they added a light citrusy t

Why late summer rolls and not spring rolls? ... because i started making them in late summer for our after- golf -practice-lunch-in-the-garden with chi ka and lisa :-) the first time we made them with the traditional vietnamese rice noodle (bun') and this time with green tea soba noodle ... and they were ... spectacular if i may say so :-) ingredie

I love allrecipes.com, really. i've tried a few of the recipes there and they all turned out as expected, i.e. really good - that is if you picked the recipes with the most and highest ratings :-) this is 'adapted' to make it less sweet and enough for two. ingredients 2 cups sweet potato, cubed 1/4 cup white sugar (scant) 1 egg, beaten 1/4 teaspoon