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5 of My Favorite Avocado Recipes

Today I’m sharing 5 of my favorite California avocado recipes over on The Scoop—any guesses what they might be?

Three more days until Thanksgiving! (Or as my kids say, 3 more sleeps!) Mashed potatoes are a classic Thanksgiving side dish, yet there are more variations than you could probably sit down and count in one week. I am working on a church Christmas dinner and came up with a recipe for mashed potatoes that […]

Happy Friday Pie-Day! Thanksgiving is only 6 days away—are you as excited about it as I am? This year we are heading to my mother-in-law’s house for Thanksgiving dinner and one of the things we are in charge of is the pies. I think I’ve changed my pie plan about 4 times already. I just […]

Mixed vegetables…sounds kind of boring, doesn’t it? Sayur Urab, a classic Balinese dish loosely translates to mean mixed vegetables, and it is far from boring! This is one of the dishes that we learned to prepare in our cooking class in Bali. While everything that we learned to cook in our class was delicious, this […]

If you want to come away from visiting a new place with a better understanding of the history and culture of that place, take a cooking class. When doing your research, look at reviews and how long the school has been in business, but also take into consideration what you are looking to get out […]

HPS (Holiday Pie Season) is officially underway! So put away your Halloween decorations and pull out your pie plates people and let’s get baking! Over the next 5 months there is at least one holiday every month that calls for pie, kicking things off with the grand daddy of them all, Thanksgiving. You know how […]

Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive, or be he dead I’ll grind his bones to make my bread. I have very distinct memories from when I was a little girl of my dad saying this in his deepest gravely giant-like voice as he stopped down the hallway. We would run […]

I have always loved my mom’s recipe for stuffed bell peppers, but when I was little I disliked the actual bell pepper. I distinctly remember eagerly eating the delicious filling and trying to avoid eating that juicy green shell. Sometimes I wish I could travel back in time and tell my younger self how good […]

Have you ever made something that just really hit the spot to the extent that it was what you wanted to eat everyday until it was gone? That was me a few weeks ago. Mr. Fuji went out of town for work and I was working on some new rice recipes, inspired by my recent […]

Rice is an important part of Japanese history and culture and is a staple in the Japanese diet. In fact, rice is such a central part of the Japanese meal that the word for cooked rice in Japanese, gohan, is the same word for meal. So when you’re eating breakfast, asagohan, the word translates to mean that […]

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