The Lucky Bamboo plant is one of the most popular feng shui cures for home or office. Most floral shops stock numerous types of lucky bamboo, which in the traditional art of feng shui, is used to attract health, happiness, love and abundance.…
Most citrus fruits are accessible all year round. Have you ever been to the grocery store and seen the produce section void of oranges, lemons or limes? Even when the most popular citrus fruits are readily available, buying in-season fruits makes a big difference in the flavor and texture of your fruit or final recipe. When fruits or vegetables are consumer out of season, they were most likely grown in an unnatural environment like a hothouse or were shipped from…
Deviled eggs are a classic and one of my favorite hors d’oeuvres. Deviled eggs are crowd-pleasing party snacks and the perfect way to start a casual evening. Deviled eggs might sound like the kind of Martha Stewart party food that you’d find in a cookbook from the 1950’s, but they’ve recently begun making appearances on menus in high-end restaurants that offer varieties with truffle oil, parmesan crisps and other arbitrarily trendy ingredients that people order, then order seconds. Because we can never leave…
I used to think that if you really loved cooking and wanted to make it a priority, it could happen. An “if you build it, they will come” mentality. Then I started a business and it suddenly became quite clear to me that when you love to do something, it becomes a priority, but when you do something out of duty, it’s easy to let it fall by the wayside. Sometimes, work and late nights out take me away from home…
Creamy Crunchy Chicken Salad
Cooking for a Crowd, Recipes, Weekend Cooking, Worknight Dinners April 15, 2014
Last week, my friend Rachel and I were chatting over IM during work and we decided that we needed to take advantage of the worldly culture that the great city of Chicago has to offer by bringing a picnic to a free international jazz concert in Millennium Park. It took a little bit of convincing (and the promise of a few bottles of wine) to convince her husband that a multicultural concert in the park was exactly how he wanted…