Sopa Tarasca (Tarascan Soup) with garnishes I don’t normally post round ups of previous recipes, but noticing all of the Cinco de Mayo recipes popping up everywhere around the web, it just seemed so silly that once again I had not gotten my act together in time. Especially when my site specializes in international recipes…
Calabacitas With Seared-Then-Simmered Pork Tenderloin
I mentioned in my last post that I fell in love with Vienna. The building that really got me was not the famed opera house or St. Stephens’ Cathedral, the gothic heart of the city. Instead it was Karlskirche, an early 18th century cathedral of fascinating design
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…
Steak Fajitas
I am well aware this is post is going to garner me a derisive phone call from my mom and a possibly even more derisive message from my sister. And maybe even some derisive comments from you all as well (please be gentle). But still I persevere on, for your own edification as well as…
Mexican Green Gazpacho With Shrimp
My sister visited recently, and one thing we always do when she visits is cook. Recently we have liked to make Indian food especially, but the doctor has her on a low carb diet at the moment pertaining to some health issues, and so we thought it might be better to skip the copious rice…
Weekday Chilaquiles With a Fried Egg On Top
As many of you know, being a FoodBuzz Featured Published comes with occasional perks of new items to try for free. Most recently that item was Egglands Best Eggs. Listen, you know all things being equal I prefer local, free-roaming eggs. But not everyone has access to local eggs and even those of us who…
Maple Chipotle Pork Tenderloin With Green Chili Stew
This is one of those dishes where my photographs are not doing it justice. As far as I am concerned, it is restaurant worthy–but between a hungry family and my own lack of imagination, the right set up did not occur to me. Believe me when I say you should make this the next time…
A Drunken Pot ‘O’ Beans
I’ve had a hectic, back and forth to Columbus, lingering virus, blah blah blah week or so, and when I recently got back from Columbus I did not want to think about anything complicated for dinner. As a matter of fact, what I really wanted was beans. It may surprise you to learn that while…
A Fix Of Creamy Poblano Soup
I made sopa de lima the other day because John was feeling under the weather and soup seemed right, even thought it was hot. Well since then, it seems like we have been craving more soup, as though we were addicts who had broken the addiction for summer–but once we had one bowl, we kept…