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I've given away tattoos, that goes over well, but stickers are loved, especially by little girls, I once had a three year old knock on my door three times looking for more stickers. I give away ind...

Welcome to the world of frying, my great grandmother spent years without an oven and so she developed lots of stovetop recipes, but when it came to desserts, she fried. She used to make fried apple...

Its my secret ingredient for my banana cake.

i have perfected the art of going to the store on an unpopular day, at an unpopular time. Rarely wait for more than one person. I have never been in a grocery store in LA with the communal l...

I made pesto last week with a little blender, that decided it preferred to walk towards the sink. holding it relatively in place was not easy, slowly pouring in the olive oil, my hands shock so muc...

Instead of a fruit based red, white blue flag cake, I make a carrot pistachio cake, topped with star shaped carrots (or s which are easier to cut) and pistachios lined up to make stripes. Taking ...

Oh this is so my poll, we've been having picnics in the park one evening mid week every summer, since I moved LA I was 19, in fact I learned to cook savory dishes from having to come up with someth...

A couple of things, I listen to how full a container of water is, I listen for the bang my black baking sheet makes when its been in a 400 degree oven for a certain amount of time, which means the ...

I'm a label reader, I stay away from anything artificial, especially artificial sweetener, and i wont buy anything with high fructose corn syrup. i use raw sugar when i can sub out the bright white...

Round this time of year the favorite after school snack is quesadilla (which I put open faced in the toaster oven for even less clean up) topped, after folding with a thin layer of sour cream and ...

I do something similar for my christmas village, only easier for example my christmas trees are hand shaped rice krispy treats, that are then rolled in crushed colored cereal (trix).

Seriously getting a middle eastern or turkish or armenian cook book, everything has at least an onion in it, and their basic stews are really simple to make. There's a turkish dish that comes to mi...

I start baking bread for easter this weekend, its sort of like challah, only richer and flavored with maleb (the pits of sour cherries) and mastic, (an ingredient used in gum, i think). We'll dye e...

Two kitchens I recently saw spring to mind, in one the fridge was simply in the dinning room, its just made more sense in there, where there was much more room, so perhaps formal dinner parties fly...

Growing up, we mainly ate stews, which sounds simple but fair warning, this is complicated. My mother was third generation Ethiopian, and so we had the Ethiopian and Italian food she grew up...