Kirbie's Cravings

Artisan Bento

Artisan Bento opened a few months ago in Banker’s Hill, specializing in healthy gourmet bento boxes using local and seasonal ingredients. The restaurant space is fairly small, with a few tables inside and a...

French Toast Grilled Cheese Sandwich

This French toast grilled cheese makes a delicious breakfast: thick slices of French toast, melted cheese and crispy bacon. And some syrup to tie it all together. As you can tell, I’m on a...

French Toast Pull Apart Muffins

These French toast muffins are so cute and make a fun breakfast or brunch. They are easier to cook than regular French toast since you let the oven do the cooking for you and...

Izakaya Hachi

During our recent Los Angeles trip, my friends took me to Izakaya Hachi, a popular Izakaya-style Japanese restaurant in Torrance. Battera Mackerel Sushi The boxed mackerel sushi looked quite pretty. I didn’t actually have any...

Spring Party with Chinet® Cut Crystal® Tableware and a Giveaway

  Spring is officially here! I love spring because it means longer daylight hours, flowers blooming and beautiful bright colors everywhere I look. To help welcome spring, I decided to throw a little party,...

Southern Living Test Kitchen

Earlier last month, I was presented with an amazing opportunity to visit the Southern Living Test Kitchen as a Delta Faucet correspondent, along with seven other wonderful bloggers. Southern Living is a magazine I adore for...

Siam Nara

I recently met up with CC for lunch and we decided to check out Siam Nara. It just so happened I had recently purchased a groupon for the restaurant and was happy to have...

Orange Chicken Pasta

The popular sweet and savory Chinese orange chicken sauce is mixed with noodles to make an addicting orange chicken pasta. You know how sometimes you fall in love with a sauce so much that you...

CREAM, Inc.

CREAM (“cookies rule everything around me”), an ice cream sandwich chain from the Bay Area, recently opened a location in San Diego. It’s located right next to Bruxie, in the SDSU area. The focus...

Lemon Garlic Roasted Asparagus

Lemon asparagus is a delicious way to enjoy asparagus and makes an easy side dish. The asparagus are roasted and flavored with garlic and lemon – the flavors pair with lots of main dishes...

Cochon

During my research for New Orleans, the popular Cochon restaurant kept coming up. We were on the fence about whether to fit it into our iternary, but after having some swoon worthy sandwiches at...

Cookies and Cream Mug Cake

This single serving cake is fluffy and sweet, with crushed Oreo pieces mixed throughout. So this is my Cookies and Cream Mug Cake 2.0. I previously shared the Cookies and Cream mug cake featured...