Wasabimon!

Today’s guest post comes from travel writer Melanie McMinn. Melanie runs Intrepid101, a blog dedicated to extreme travel in New Zealand for women of all sizes. Her site is awesome on all fronts… I mean how much respect do I have for a woman who jumps out of a plane and crawls on [...]

I find a lot of tantalizing food photos during my daily internet exploits, and I’ve finally decided to keep track of them. I’ve created a new Tumblr blog specifically for logging the most dizzying food porn that I come across. Check it out:
MegaNom blog on Tumblr
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I’m Italian and my grandma never made me Italian hazelnut cookies! No fair!
A few weeks ago I was flipping through the newest issue of EatingWell and came upon an article by an author whose father grew up in the Piedmont region of Italy. Also an Italian longing for connection to my roots, I [...]

For some reason, it never occurred to me to make my own homemade vanilla extract.
I’m a big fan of Elise Bauer’s Simply Recipes blog. And how could I not be? Elise’s site is hands down one of the most reputable cooking blogs I’ve yet to run across. So far, every recipe I’ve [...]

I’d never really thought much about Ethiopian food for the primary reason that every time I’d tried it, I felt like my face would melt off, a la the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark. I’ve not got a huge tolerance for spice, and in the past, Ethiopian fare pretty much did its [...]

I have a “curry thing.” I’m not particularly fond of spicy food, but curries are in a realm all their own. Something about the way the spices interact with your body results in the most amazing euphoria, one that I’ve heard referred to by zealots as the “curry high.” I tend to drink a little less vino these days, as my body prefers fewer inebriants as I get older, but this “high” is a clean, pure foodie bliss without the risk of a hangover. Seriously, what more could you ask for?

Considering my curry passion, I was really surprised to see that I hadn’t posted my recipe here. I’ve made this for countless friends, and it is always the first thing people ask for when I invite them to dinner. “Are you making curry?” “Is it perchance a curry night?” Over the year I’ve learned to just keep coconut milk in the cupboard for impromptu curry sessions, and it generally means that there is a steady stream of dinner guests brightening my doorstep.