I make soup all fall and winter long. I am often inspired by other blogs, cookbook, and family recipes to change things up in the soup department. I do love traditional tomato, butternut, and chicken, but sometimes I want more. This is the definition of that soup. It is balanced, filling, nutritious, and delicious. I did not rhyme on purpose, that just happened. No, serious, this is mmm good. You can add, and delete items you may or may not…

Time for some grilling my friends! Grilling is an all year long event in our home, no weather can stop us, but some for some it only happen in the summer. So why not take advantage of our wonderful citrus friends and grill on with it? Brian says I will put lime on anything, really anything, and he is probably right. I LOVE lime a lot. I drench my tacos, salads, fruit, desserts, chicken, beef, you name it, if it sounds good with lime, it…

Just with all of the other so called staples in my life, I have taken it upon myself to make each one from scratch. Flour tortillas are a staple. I do not eat them as often as I would like, everyday, but I do enjoy them from time to time. I like the new and improved healthy version with whole wheat, or even gluten free, but not this time. This time I wanted all out flour tortillas, the warm, versatile, pleasures of this flour tortilla send me…

I am feeling like the luckiest girl in the world. Hard work pays off, good people karma, and all the trimmings. I took a trip to Virginia the week before last to visit the Sabra hummus factory, and chickpea farm. How super duper cool is that? This trip and the bloggers who get invited to be Sabra Tastemakers. The people at Sabra and Seymour Public Relations make this all possible and work so hard to make it a seamless experience from start to…

Disclosure: This is a compensated post in collaboration with Sabra Dipping Company. I am sharing this awesome recipe here and on a live cooking segment on KATU AM Northwest! Are you going to watch the Superbowl this weekend? It’s kind of a big deal for us in the Pacific Northwest, being that the Seahawks are in the bowl. So here is my confession, I don’t watch football, I only watch the Superbowl. That’s it. I may watch one…

It’s been a good month full of cookies, cakes, pies, and candy. Somewhere in all of it I made this soup. I think it was on the day I made chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, and two batches of shortbread cookies. I am a baking machine. When I get going, it is on. In between cookies baking I thought about a filling soup to balance out the sugar. Yes, it has cream in it, but just a bit. I got some beautiful kale and sweet…

Chole is an Indian dish that I learned about in my Asian Cuisine class in Culinary School. It is also known as Chana Masala. In this particular class we were focusing on the cuisine of India. We made samosas, chutneys, flat breads, and curries. This is a Northern Indian dish full of spices, onions, tomatoes, and chickpeas. Beautiful and flavorful, perfect on a cold day, and this cleanse. It is vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, the works. We were…