What’s That Song in Go90’s Confess?

Colleen Hoover's Confess is a book that gets you right in the feels. The TV adaptation premieres Tuesday on Go90 (available on the Web and on iTunes and Android) and the first two episodes dropped early to give viewers a taste of Auburn and Owen's story. For those who haven't read the book, Auburn Reed's first love…

April 3, 20170Comments

Beverages Recipes

Celebrate Pixie Tangerine Month with a Whixie Sour

April marks the tail end of citrus season and if you live near Ojai, California, it's also Ojai Pixie month. Pixie tangerines are gorgeously sweet, seedless and easy to peel. If you don't live close enough to celebrate with local restaurants and hotels, you can get your Pixies at markets across the US, and shake up…

March 31, 20170Comments

Baking Product Review

What Do You Do with Coffee Flour?

Food media first talked about Coffee Flour as a speciality product in 2015 and it’s just landed at Trader Joe’s, as part of a caffeine-fueled blitz of coffee-flavored products. I like the idea of coffee flour, but I’m just not sure it’s actually necessary if you’re able to cook and bake with wheat flour. In…

March 29, 20170Comments

Book Reviews

3 Sweet and Sassy Reads for your Easter Bunny

I had THE best reading week. Some weeks you pick up a book, read a few chapters and then toss it aside. Others, you're devouring one book after another and hoping your library has an author's back catalog covered. This week was all about sweets and I must be still be riding the sugar high,…

March 26, 20170Comments

Book Reviews

Book Review: Vibrant India by Chitra Agrawal

Masala dosa with potato curry and cilantro coconut chutney from Chitra Agrawal's Vibrant India. **ARC provided by publisher via NetGalley** Vibrant India melds tradition with the modern, capturing and adapting South Indian dishes for the home cook, whether you grew up eating Indian food, or it’s all new. The book suggests vegetable variations for…

March 21, 20170Comments

Product Review Recipes

Trader Joe’s Coffee Cavalcade + Mocha Joe-Joe’s

Need a jolt? Head to Trader Joe's. Following last year's mango madness, Trader Joe's is back with a cavalcade of sweet and savory coffee-flavored products, from coffee flour to caramel macchiato yogurt and ancho chile chicken sausages with ground coffee. The item that everyone's bound to go ga-ga over is the mocha-flavored version of Trader Joe's…

March 16, 20170Comments

Book Reviews

What’s Cooking: Vibrant India by Chitra Agrawal

Vibrant India, Chitra Agrawal's ode to South Indian vegetarian cooking is due out on March 21 from Ten Speed Press. You might know Chitra from her blog, ABCD's of Cooking, or her condiment line, Brooklyn Delhi. In the book, she's sharing a collection of quick vegetable stirfrys, salads, chutneys and pickles, rice dishes and hearty vegetarian stews. I've…

March 9, 20170Comments

Recipes

5 Delicious Ways to Use Trader Joe’s Everything But the Bagel Sesame Seasoning

Trader Joe's Everything But the Bagel Sesame Seasoning blend is taking over the Internet. You've probably seen it all over Instagram at #traderjoes and in some of food pubs you read on the regular. The checker at Trader Joe's said he does a reverse everything and put it on a plain bagel. But that's just…

March 3, 20170Comments

Book Reviews

Book Review: Nine Kinds of Naughty by Jeanette Grey

Jeanette Grey’s latest is a steamy, sexy, scorcher of self-discovery. **ARC won in a Twitter contest from the author/publisher** Jeanette Grey has a serious knack for bringing together gorgeous European locales, smokin’ hot sexy times and stories of self-discovery. Seven Nights to Surrender and Eight Ways to Ecstasy explored the theme with an aspiring artist and a…

February 22, 20170Comments

Not About Food

Never Again

Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Descent, from the National Park Service's Collection of Historical Documents. In 1940, my grandma was a 21-year old maid in Los Angeles. She worked for a family the Jefferson Park neighborhood and her name is listed with theirs in the Census. By the time President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive…

February 19, 20170Comments

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What’s That Song in Go90’s Confess?

Celebrate Pixie Tangerine Month with a Whixie Sour

What Do You Do with Coffee Flour?

3 Sweet and Sassy Reads for your Easter Bunny

Book Review: Vibrant India by Chitra Agrawal

Trader Joe’s Coffee Cavalcade + Mocha Joe-Joe’s

What’s Cooking: Vibrant India by Chitra Agrawal

5 Delicious Ways to Use Trader Joe’s Everything But the Bagel Sesame Seasoning

Book Review: Nine Kinds of Naughty by Jeanette Grey

Never Again

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