Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams is one of my all-time favorite ice cream shops. So when they opened a location in Los Angeles last year, I was more than a little excited. This first West...
Tofu is baked until crispy and then tossed in a thick, Chinese-style stir-fry garlic sauce. I’m pretty excited about the extra hour of daylight now that we’re on daylight saving time again. Though it...
Last month we had dinner at Gami Sushi. The small sushi restaurant is tucked inside a Carmel Valley plaza that houses quite a few other restaurants including Marketplace Grille and Royal India. Small Sashimi...
Guiness jello with Baileys Irish cream is a fun and easy St. Patrick’s Day dessert. The bitter stout beer is perfect with the creamy sweet Baileys and makes for a fun presentation, too. I...
This easy mug cake is just three ingredients. It’s fluffy, flourless and tastes of cashews. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that when I was a kid, the spread options for my toast were pretty much...
Rolled Up is a new fast-casual restaurant that just opened, serving fusion sushi burritos. The restaurant is founded by James Markham, who also helped create the customizable pizza chains MOD Pizza, Pieology and Project...
I’m starting a new monthly series where I summarize my favorite dishes that I recently consumed. Every year I do a Best Bites round-up and it’s one of my favorite things to write. However,...
Theorem is a coffee bar concept by the owners of Portola Coffee Lab. Located next to the Portola Coffee Lab branch in Costa Mesa, the walk-up bar features a playful and creative rotation of...
These chocolate chip cookies are stuffed with PEEPS®, creating a deliciously gooey, melted marshmallow center in each cookie. Just in time for Easter, there is a new PEEPS® cookbook, Peeps-a-licious!* And yours truly is...
This is a homemade version of the doughnut ice cream cones (a twist on the Slovak pastry trdelník) that have been all over the internet. The famed cones are from a cafe in Prague,...
Peterson’s Donut Corner is a popular donut shop in Escondido that has been around for more than 30 years, offering super-sized donuts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I love it when donut shops...
