Kirbie's Cravings

Sieu Sieu BBQ

Sieu Sieu BBQ specializes in Chinese BBQ and roasted meats. Over the long weekend, Mr. K’s family came over and we decided to pick up some roasted meats to bring home for dinner.

Baked Calamari

A healthier baked version of calamari rings. These crunchy coated squid rings make a great appetizer or side dish.

Pokeland

Pokeland, a quick service poke bowl restaurant, opened at the end of December. We’d seen signage for Pokeland for nearly a year, so we were quite surprised when they finally opened.

Avocado Potato Salad

This Avocado Potato Salad replaces mayonnaise with avocado for a healthier creamy potato salad recipe full of avocado nutrients and healthy fats. I love avocado and I recently had avocado potato salad for the first time (in Japan of all places). I really enjoyed...

Champagne Cocktails with gold spun sugar

Champagne Cocktails with Spun Sugar

Champagne cocktails topped with homemade spun sugar. Perfect for New Year’s Eve, a wedding or engagement party, or any other fancy celebratory occasion. No candy thermometer is needed! Happy New Year’s, everyone! I made...

Top Fifteen Best Bites 2016

Yesterday I shared my Top Ten Recipes of 2016. Today I’m sharing my Top Fifteen Best Bites of 2016. This is always so hard as there were so many delicious bites. But here they...

Top Ten Recipes 2016

It’s that time of year again! I love taking some time at the end of the year to go back and review my posts. It’s always interesting to see which posts people were the...

Festival of Holidays at Disneyland

From December through early January, Disneyland Park is full of holiday decor, lights, special foods, parades and shows. We recently went to Disneyland to experience it all.

Oreo Pancakes

Oreo Pancakes

Chocolate Cookies and Cream flavored pancakes are stacked with layers of cream to resemble Oreo cookies. These Oreo Pancakes are a fun breakfast or brunch treat. How about a big stack of these pancakes...

Udon Shin

Udon Shin is a small shop in Tokyo that is known for their fresh, handmade udon noodles. The noodles are cut and boiled to order. We had a delicious meal here and would definitely...

Trader Joe’s December Edition

I was really excited for Trader Joe’s December Fearless Flyer. I wanted pretty much everything featured! But I managed to show some self-restraint. Here is what I ended up buying on my latest trip....

Gram Cafe

Gram is a pancake chain in Japan with more than a dozen locations and the cafe is known for their premium souffle pancakes. This was one of my favorite bites from our Japan trip.