We’re back from vacation in sunny California. San Diego and Los Angeles, to be more precise. They are blessed with warm sunny weather in the winter, but you just wait until spring and summer come back to Microsoft-land and you’ll see that it is the most beautiful place to be when a lot of people [...]

Eating out while on a trip or vacation, with or without kids, can become a stressful event. Going out for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and maybe snacks too, every day throughout your vacation, can be tiring. Choosing a restaurant, driving, parking, waiting to be seated, reading the menu, consulting, deciding, ordering, waiting, paying, waiting… add [...]

The last weekly menu plan for 2008. Posted recipe for December were… Party times – Holiday (or Birthday) Party Food – Appetizers Entrées: Breadcrumbly Pumpkin Ravioli – Sometimes Life Gives You Breadcrumbs Upgraded/dressed-up Pizza – Sometimes it’s Pizza for Dinner Surprise – Time to Tell You What It Is Amazing, but simple, Chicken Wrap Linguine [...]

I just watched a horrifying video a few hours ago showing the lives of animals raised on “farms”, from their birth to our table. I can’t stop thinking about it. I’d like you to visit my Good Food & Bad Food blog and read the post I wrote about it, “Can We Eat Like That [...]

Do you have days when you don’t feel like cooking? Even if you are a foodie/chef/a person obsessed with food/can’t think about anything else but food all day and night? Do you always have something fresh in the fridge to cook dinner with? Hhmmm. Well, I don’t. I know, I know, I have posted a [...]

Sometimes I get frustrated. Trying to do it all and having to compromise in everything that I do. I feel like I’m doing the best I can – which is not good enough to me – because I want to do everything perfectly. But in reality I find that I’m not giving enough attention to [...]

I love to read and buy cookbooks and food magazines (it’s my addiction), kitchen equipment and tools (no more room in the kitchen cabinets), and browse through food websites and blogs (it takes a lot of my time). But most of the people I personally know don’t care about these things and I guess that [...]

Here is a winner recipe for beef goulash by one of my favorite top chefs, Wolfgang Puck (you will find more recipes on his web site if you click the link). I make this Goulash very often. The recipe is adapted from the one in his cookbook, one of my favorite cookbooks: Other recipes I [...]

Since becoming  a mom, my priorities have changed. Family and kids come first, food second. In the summer I much rather spend time outdoors and play or watch them play. Dinner still needs to be at the table at a reasonalble time though. So, I how do I do it? It all starts with having [...]

I am not a big fan of the kids menu provided by restaurants. After spending a week on vacation and eating out 1-3 times a day, I like it even less. (More about that coming soon). The common kids menu offers simple food for outrageous prices, mostly something cheesy, with a reward of cookie or [...]