Posts from ‘February, 2009’

Pad See Ew is likely the second most well known Thai noodle dish to Pad Thai. While flat rice noodles serve as the base of this dish, the real flavor comes from the slightly sweet gravy. I’ve balanced out the sweet taste of the carmelized brown sugar with soy sauce and sauteed garlic, and you [...]

Happy Mardi Gras everyone! In honor of this festive day, I’ve posted a series of photographs of Eric “Badlands” Booker demonstrating his crawfish eating technique. Badlands is the world’s 13th ranked competitive eater, and he let me tag along this past weekend as he prepared for today’s House of Blues Showboat Crawfish Eating Competition in [...]

Mixing spinach into rice is a great way to incorporate a healthy vegetable into a side dish without compromising flavor or texture. The leafy veggie will soak up any ingredient you add to it, so I’ve used a garlic-infused olive oil as the main flavor of this simple side dish. Toss in some brown rice [...]

This recipe is designed to distract the frozen taste buds of anyone who is still (un)fortunate enough to be enjoying the frigid cold of winter. So open wide and take a bite out of a warmer climate by tasting the sweet pineapple, toasted coconut and salty crunch of these macadamia nut granola bars. And while [...]

Just a Taste was selected today by The Foodie Blogroll to be a featured blog for Finest Foodies Friday. Many thanks to Jenn, creator of The Foodie Blogroll, for selecting my site! Click on the picture below to read her review of Just a Taste and to view her site, The Leftover Queen.

I haven’t always had an adventurous palette, and I actually spent many of my childhood years poking the crab meat out of sushi rolls and dining on plain white rice any time my parents took (and by took, I mean dragged) me to dinner at their favorite Indian restaurant. But the more I was exposed [...]

This quick-fix chocolate bark recipe features the perfect pairing of salty and sweet. The flavor combinations are endless with this simple recipe - white chocolate with dried pineapple and macadamia nuts, dark chocolate with dried cherries and walnuts, and one of my holiday favorites, white chocolate with peppermint and peanuts. No matter what combination you [...]

There are hundreds of recipes out there for regular Red Velvet Cupcakes. And while I live in New York City - cupcake capital of the modern world - I’ve never been a fan of any of the city’s high-priced gourmet cupcake shops (gourmands, go ahead and gasp). So after sifting through a handful of options, [...]

As a California girl at heart, I will find any excuse to enjoy homemade guacamole. This time I’ve put a spin on my traditional guac by serving it up as the centerpiece in this simply delicious bruschetta recipe. And how can you go wrong with this arsenal of flavor-packet ingredients? The crunchy French bread serves [...]

I have copies of recipes floating all over my apartment, some tucked into cookbooks, others stuffed into kitchen drawers. But I stumbled across a photocopy of this recipe below and knew I had to share it with you all as it is an unchallenged contestant for the moistest cake I have ever baked. I’m unsure [...]