Vacation Destination: Vail

Vacation Destination: Vail

Goodbye beautiful Vail.   I have returned home from a perfect storybook village (the closest us Uhmercans can get to a European style village without ever leaving the country), amid looming mountains and pleasant travelers. The snowboarding is great, the views are...
Stuffed Kabocha Squash and Asian-style Cabbage Salad

Stuffed Kabocha Squash and Asian-style Cabbage Salad

Try these juicy recipes for your next dinner:  Stuffed kabocha squash and an Asian-style cabbage salad. For the kabocha stuffing, I made a mixture of jasmine rice, brown rice and quinoa, and baked some tofu in delicious Asian sauces.  Here is another yummy one to work...
Cinnamon Carob Banana Bread

Cinnamon Carob Banana Bread

Soo, this was supposed to be carob and banana marble bread, but Whole Foods was out of carob powder…..really?  That many people are rushing to the hippie chocolate??  Ugh, I miss the days when no one knew about things like carob and quinoa.  But I suppose the...
Hungry for a HungAry-style dinner? :D

Hungry for a HungAry-style dinner? :D

Adding to my food & travel series, this savory recipe for Hungarian stuffed cabbage (also known as toltott kaposzta) highlights another chunk of my good ol’ mixed American ancestry (the Hungarian/Romanian quarter).  The cabbage rolls I made are a spin-off of...