Kirbie's Cravings
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Triple Coconut Mug Cake

Triple Coconut Mug Cake. If you love coconut, this is the cake for you. It’s light, fluffy, and full of coconut flavor from coconut oil, milk, and sweetened flakes. Plus, it takes just minutes...

Aqui Es Texcoco

Aqui Es Texcoco, known for their lamb barbecue (barbacoa), has drawn the attention of many food media outlets and was even featured on Andrew Zimmern’s Bizarre Foods a few years ago. Texcoco is a...

French Toast Sticks

These French Toast Sticks are baked in the oven and make an easy and fun breakfast or brunch. You only need four ingredients and 30 minutes to make them so you can easily make...

Bubbies Mochi

Bubbies is an ice cream and dessert chain in Hawaii, but their mochi ice cream products are now available at Whole Foods Del Mar, replacing the previous gelato station. There is no real signage....

French Toast Donuts

Donuts halves are dipped in a custard batter to make French Toast Donuts. Decisions Decisions. Do I want donuts for breakfast? Or French toast?  I’m usually good at narrowing my choices down to two...

Mister Donut

One of my first stops when I arrived in Taiwan was a visit to Mister Donut, a popular Japanese donut chain (though it actually originated in the US) with many locations in Asia. I...

Venga Venga

Venga Venga recently launched a Destination menu, where every 6 months the restaurant menu will offer dishes inspired by a different region of Mexico. From March through September they are featuring dishes inspired by the...

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Roasted Honey Garlic Cauliflower

Roasted cauliflower is kicked up a notch with the addition of this addicting honey garlic sauce. The other day, Mr. K told me he preferred eating cauliflower over chicken. This can only mean one...

Wahine Kai Shave Ice

Wahine Kai Shave Ice specializes in Hawaiian-style shaved ice. We recently passed by this shop while running errands and had to stop in to check it out. Once inside, we were given a friendly greeting...

Chocolate Covered Potato Chip Popcorn Ice cream

Today’s post is sponsored by the potato chip brand of my childhood, Cape Cod®. Summer is just around the corner and I’m in full ice cream mode. We’ve been eating ice cream nearly every weekend,...

Embargo Grill

Embargo Grill opened last year, specializing in Caribbean flavors. The small restaurant has gained a lot of popularity since it opened, even making Yelp’s “Top 100 Restaurants to Eat in the U.S. for 2015.” I met with CC...

4 Ingredient Cookie Butter Muffins

These shortcut muffins are just four ingredients and full of cookie butter flavor. I had this intention to make proper muffins. You know ones with flour, butter, eggs, etc. And then I got lazy, so...