My friend Jenni Kayne generously opens her beautiful home once a month for an amazing cooking class with Pamela Salzman. At the start of summer Pamela showed us how to prepare these delicious sweet potato fries. Now I am really hooked and so are my girls. The best thing about them is that they are ...
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Recently I hosted a small dinner for Rachel Craven’s designs and I was thrilled to have lovely local Angelena Danielle Steckler from Paper Palate prepare the food. On her site you can read about her Angeleno roots and how food artistry took root in her at a young age. Danielle and co creator Lucy ...
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Okay I have a confession to make . . . I prefer craft beer to wine. Yes it’s true. Over the past several years I have discovered the wonderful world of IPAs and Belgium varieties. Now that local craft beers are becoming so popular, there is an abundance of choices. To become more educated on ...
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One of my most favorite things in the world is cinnamon. I love it in my tea, warm milk and honey, oatmeal cookies, smoothies . . . you name it. Finally the West is now jumping on the health benefit wagon touting its effectiveness as an antibacterial, anti fungal, sugar balancing wonder spice. For centuries ...
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Here is a special recipe just for us roses from the wonderful chef Stephanie Goldfarb-Kemp. She is a private chef and caterer whom I met through my friend Eco-Goddess Jena King. Stephanie specializes in wheat free, organic, healthy meals that taste incredible. These muffins retain their moisture and are great to have for quick morning ...
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Those nights when I have little imagination left for cooking a meal, I resort to the old taco-mexican-stand by. From all the years I was a vegetarian this came very handy for a delicious protein filled meal, but now that I am having some animal protein I will marinate some organic chicken and add ...
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