Take Your Tastebuds On A Culinary Travel Adventure!

Leave your passport home and cook yourself a culinary travel adventure right in your own kitchen! No need to fight the crowds or maintain a schedule. Live on your own time experience the world at home! Take your taste buds on a Culinary Travel Adventure whenever you feel the...

Spice It Up With Tea!

Besides spices and herbs, my other great passion is tea! I love tea, hot or iced. It is my drink of choice and just recently, I have been discovering the joys of herbal blends, both hot and cold. I find them comforting and soothing.  You can use teas for...

High Protein Chocolate Muffins

I got inspired by the idea of making high protein chocolate muffins when I was reading an article on Clean Eating. This isn’t quintessential clean eating, but these are really good! And we all need to be pampered a little now and then! I came up with this recipe...

AeroGarden, Grow Organic Herbs Review

If you love to grow things, and house plants just aren’t doing it for you, try an AeroGarden. You can grow your own herbs, vegetables, and flowers year round no matter what climate  you live in! Fresh herbs make any dish pop, and even if you live where gardening...

What’s For Supper?

Today, I was on my way home from work, exhausted, and thinking about what’s for supper? I like to use up my fresh vege’s because it breaks my heart to throw anything away . I was eating solo tonight, so I was just thinking of what I could make for one.    ...

Herbs and Spices For Good Health

Spices have a unique ability to add flavor and nutritional value (adding the feeling of warmth and comfort) to any meal, without adding calories or salt. The health benefits are explosive! Try these recipes and see how enjoyable it is to eat  your way to health.  I firmly believe...

Why You Need Spices

 Turmeric, cinnamon, ginger, chile pepper, mint. You know, it’s funny, I try to come up with new ideas and different spices for interesting topics, but every time I always come back to pretty much these same spices. These flavors are common in many cultures, but when used in the...

Loose Leaf Tea Review

In my opinion, this is the best loose leaf tea you can get! I’ve tried many, many others, and this is the best by far! I have been buying tea from Adagio since 2005 and I have always been pleased with my orders and customer service. Free shipping on...

Spices and Herbs-Beginnings

Do you love to eat good food? Of course you do! Eating is probably one of the most enjoyable activities we all have in common from one land to another. Cooking became a passion of mine when my kids were little. It was a challenge to feed five hungry...

Three Basic Spices, Salt, Pepper, Basil

We will begin our journey with three common flavors, salt, pepper  and basil. I am adding the herb, basil because that is the flavorful, herbaceous ingredient in my first recipe. We are going to be making bruschetta, which is one of our favorite, easy, fresh go-to light supper or starter. ...