Happy Thanksgiving! I know everyone is featuring fantastic things to do with leftover turkey right about now. But… I hate turkey. I personally think we have been brainwashed as a nation to think that the driest, most boring meat imaginable should be the centerpiece of our most food-oriented holiday feast. But I won’t go on…
Spicy Southwestern Rice & Bean Bake: A Review of Not Your Mother’s Casseroles
Christmas came to The Spiced Life this May! A friend of my dad’s, who graduated high school with him, passed my card onto his daughter, who works for The Harvard Common Press. She has my pre-mom dream job, she works in the cookbook division, where she also worked on their cooking blog (Harvard Common Press…
Persian Gulf Split Pea Soup with Rice & Mint
So what is Mother Nature doing where you are? Is it as weird and crazy there? Temperatures all over the place, nonstop rain and storms, flooding, weird random sunshine when you least expect it (and probably cannot take advantage of it anyway if you have a traditional weekday job)…
Pakastani Baked Pork with Lime & Black Cumin served with Pakastani Rice with Mint and Red Peppers: Silk Road Gourmet Reviewed
I love cookbooks. I love reading them, using them, and writing about them. So it only seems natural that cookbook reviews are starting to become a portion of what this blog does. In many cases I purchase the book out of my own interest, in some cases the publisher contacts me–but in a select few…
World Kitchen Paella
“Paella is a dish of poverty… If you have only a bit of leftover chicken and other odds and ends, you can make paella….” -Jose Puig, via Seductions of Rice, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid I love this quote. This elasticity in the approach to paella
Red Beans & Rice
This post is the perfect opportunity to tell you all about my new toy, a Canon Rebel 2Ti. It has loads more numbers and letters that come after it, some of which mean something to me, most of which do not. What is important is that it is my first SLR camera and I am…
Hunter Chicken Stew
It’s that time of year again, when packages of canned tomatoes start showing up at my door. I love my job as a blogger! This year I actually got packages from 2 companies, Muir Glen and Red Gold. I am excited to try the Red Gold, a regional canned tomato company, but I started with…
Pan Seared Tilapia with Thai Sweet & Sour Veggies
I have some advice for people planning summer vacations with kids who are at that just starting school/preschool age. Don’t plan them for early-mid August. You will return home and poof! just like that your summer is over and you are scrambling to get them ready for school. Supplies, back packs, preschool open houses, etc….
Hyderabadi Qabooli (Hyderabadi Pilaf of Rice & Split Peas)
This is actually a post about a tremendously yummy Indian pilaf–although I am sure it looks like an advertisement for cherry tomatoes. What can I say, when summer hits I start putting those deliciously sweet little guys on everything and anything. This is a pilaf that caught my eye when I was looking for stuff…
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