Kirbie's Cravings

Pacific Poke Co

Pacific Poke Company opened late last year. The restaurant focuses on poke bowls, but also offers a few other items like spam musubi and spring rolls. Like most of the other poke restaurants in...

Crispiest Baked Chicken Wings

Learn how to make crispy baked chicken wings! These wings come out of the oven hot and crispy and stay crispy for hours. Plus you only need three ingredients to make them. Today I’m sharing a method for producing...

Holy Matcha

Holy Matcha softly opened last week. The cafe offers a menu focused around Japanese matcha green tea, offering ceremonial matcha, matcha drinks, and matcha flavored foods. They also serve a few other tea varieties. I...

Chocolate Overnight Oats

Chocolate Overnight Oats are an easy no-cook breakfast. They’re made with oats, milk, cacao powder, and chia seeds, and you can make them ahead for easy breakfasts or snacks. Overnight oats are my current new love. They only...

Japanese Souffle Pancakes

These Japanese-style Souffle Pancakes are incredibly light and fluffy. They are a popular trend in Japan, but you can recreate them in your own home. As you may recall, I had the most fluffy Japanese...

Mr. Holmes Bakehouse

Mr. Holmes Bakehouse is a bakery known for their cruffins. The hugely popular bakery started in San Francisco but recently expanded into Southern California, opening a store in Los Angeles a few months ago...

Eclipse Chocolate

We recently attended a special dinner at Eclipse Chocolate. It was a tasting and viewing dinner to celebrate Eclipse founder and chef Will Gustwiller’s win on Food Network’s Guy’s Grocery Games. It was a...

Honey Garlic Salmon

This Honey Garlic Salmon recipe is a quick, easy and delicious meal ready in about 30 minutes. Salmon fillets are pan seared and then glazed with a flavorful honey garlic sauce that is sweet, savory, and spicy. I like making salmon recipes because...

Cacao Brownie Bites

These no bake, 4-ingredient cacao brownie bites taste chocolatey and fudgy but without all the guilt. They are easy to make and are a healthy snack or treat. This is my current favorite snack....

Submarine Crab

Submarine Crab is a cajun-style seafood restaurant that recently opened in San Diego. The menu includes seafood boils, pastas and fog drinks. At the end of your meal, they also give you a fun...

Crispy Baked Bang Bang Shrimp

This is a healthier version of bang bang shrimp. Shrimp are coated in panko bread crumbs, baked until crispy and then drizzled with bang bang sauce. I’m really excited to share this recipe with...

Lofty Coffee Co.

Lofty Coffee Co. recently opened a new location in Little Italy. The popular coffee bar and eatery also has locations in Solana Beach and Encinitas. The Little Italy location features an open air structure with...