I’m getting so close…I can smell it! So far, I’ve written 90 recipes and shot over 65 photographs…but I’m a little behind - and still have 30 more photographs and another 15 recipes to go. I must give great thanks to a hardcore team of testers who have been relentlessly testing…

The ebony-blue, bursty blackberry fruit was just too pretty to pass up at the market the other day, so I picked up 2 pints to experiment with. I was thinking: Sauce. Brandy. Salmon….

I’m the newest guest author at my friend Elise’s blog at Simply Recipes! Come on over and read the secrets to light, fluffy and flavorful fried rice — secrets that my Mom taught me.

Last week was my good friend’s birthday and like me, she popped out kids back to back, 16 months apart, which meant we both had the same momentary lapse of judgment. Date nights are rare events, not because we’re lame, married, boring people, but that trustworthy sitters…

How do you describe the TEXTURE of perfectly cooked shrimp? A bursty, buoyant, bouncy bite? Crisp, succulent, bubble-crunchy? Playfully dancing in the mouth? Learn the secret of how to prepare and cook shrimp so that you can get this texture…

It’s my birthday and my husband is surprising me!!!

Bourdain describes it as “…Your breath will smell as if you’d been French-kissing your dead grandmother.” Richard Sterling, travel/food writer: “… its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock….lovely, huh?….

Watch me make Chinese Wonton Noodle Soup in a video and I’ll give you the secrets to folding, freezing and cooking wonton noodle soup…

It’s my birthday and I want to give you a gift! Enter to win a super cool Flip Video Camcorder! Watch my video for the details…

Learn how to make perfect pan fried potsticker dumplings with step by step photos!