There’s an art to crafting the perfect sauce. It’s a delicate dance of flavors, textures, and aromas that can elevate any dish to a gourmet experience. This spicy peanut sauce is my ode to those balmy nights spent in bustling Asian street markets, where...
This Chinese Boiled Peanuts recipe makes for an addictive snack Raw peanuts are boiled in water with cinnamon sticks, star anise, garlic cloves and a little salt. Even though there’s no sugar in the mix, you’ll get a molasses-like sweetness just from...
There are few emotions that I don’t know how to process into words, leaving me utterly speechless. I’ll share two of them with you today, one of them is loss of life – my friend Jennifer Perillo lost her husband in a sudden heart attack. The...
Another installment of food on a stick, thanks to inspiration from buddies Matt & Adam and their book titled…uh…On a Stick…which is always more fun to eat than food on a fork. Plus you get to play sword fight with the sticks after you eat (you do...
I recently took a trip to The Pampered Chef headquarters in Chicago to host their first ever live online cooking show featuring holiday recipes and decor tips. I had great fun, thousands of people watched online and here is one of the recipes that we made on the show....