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Mark Bittman’s Kimchi Rice with Beef + A giveaway!

Have you voted yet today? You can vote once every day between now and December 31st! Help me win the title of favorite Crescent Cook and be entered for the chance to win $5,000! (See more voting details at the end of this post.)* ============================================= With the current state of our food system and our [...]

Before I share today’s fig dish with you, I get to announce the winner of the Fresh Fig Giveaway! The lucky winner of a box of fresh California figs, as chosen by Random.org, is comment #216! Comment #216 was left by Jill:

“Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.” — Ada Louise Huxtable My friend Juls, the author of the [...]

I’m a huge fan of oysters. Not only are they delicious, but I think they are a whole lot of fun to shuck, once you get the hang of it. Oysters are also a highly sustainable seafood choice, and the next stop on our Sustainable Seafood Tour! Martin Reed explains that oysters “are one of [...]

Seafood sustainability is an issue that is growing bigger by the minute. Due to our fishing methods, environmental issues, and pollution, our oceans are in trouble. Over 90% of the large predatory fish such as shark, swordfish and cod have been fished out of the ocean. A growing number of marine species are now endangered [...]

I am in love with this udon noodle bowl I got from the company Flavour Design Studio. Isn’t it gorgeous? I love the way it’s designed to be easy to hold, with a hole for your thumb to fit through, and I love the grooves and holes cut out for your chopsticks to sit in [...]

Our trip to Cancun last week was wonderful. We stayed at the beautiful Excellence Playa Mujeres which is north of Cancun city. While our girls were busy keeping Fuji Nana and Fuji Papa on their toes, we were busy drinking some of these, enjoying the warm water of the Carribean Sea and the beautiful beach,

* Find out how you can help to save the life of my friend’s little boy. * ================================================================= A couple of weeks ago I got an email from Lauren, the talented creative force behind Celiac Teen. She explained that she was taking an online foods course for school, and that one of the projects they [...]

I was contacted recently by Ali, who writes the blog Fat to Fit, about a challenge she was hosting called the Healthy Slow Cooker Challenge, in which participants were being challenged to cook at least one healthy slow cooker meal this week. Tuesday, during our drive home from Utah, Squirrel began to complain that she [...]

Although Squirrel would make an excellent Nutella Spokesperson, she would make an equally stellar Mushroom Ambassador. I have to be careful when I take her grocery shopping because if I go past the mushrooms and I don’t put any in our basket, she will insist that I get some. You see, Squirrel has a thing [...]

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