A couple weekends ago I dined with some of my most favorite people, my dad and my husband, at a spot in Long Beach we hadn’t tried before called Steamed.  We shared a delicious meal, and what stuck out the most for all of us was something called Happy Tuna.  To quote my dad, “This [...]

This fine Monday morning brings us a very lovely and interactive interview with Kimberley Hasselbrink of The Year In Food blog.  Taken from her site:  “The Year In Food is a place that charts the course of the year through inspired, creative cooking and eating that falls somewhere between comfort and health food.”  Her site [...]

Granita is similiar to sorbet, but is less smooth and has a texture more like snow.  Have some friends over and share this sweet treat or keep it to yourself and eat it up while watching that TV show you love. Or, eat it while writing a blog post about granita – really the list [...]

The topic of exfoliation came up the other night and I thought to myself… hmm I see a new post coming to the surface. Human skin is made up of three layers. The outermost layer is the epidermis, which is bonded to a deeper layer called the dermis and then to the base level, the [...]