Back in Amsterdam, as a trade-off for making them go to bikram yoga, the guys starting making us girls go climbing with them. As much fun as it was to lunge for the final grip, slip and get a nasty crack of whiplash when I hit the ground, I have […]
Author: OntheFly
Wakame Cucumber Salad
Chuka wakame, or seaweed salad, is a must-have appetizer for me whenever I get sushi. Typically strands of wakame seaweed are mixed with very thin slices of cucumber and a dressing of vinegar, soy sauce, sugar and chili flakes. It’s delicious, though difficult to replicate at home. But since seaweed […]
Beetroot Hummus Salad
I shall now amuse myself by mixing American and British English words/spellings in the same headline. ANYWAY. After some thought, I decided to ease back into things by focusing on salads for the rest of September. Here’s one I’ve been working on over the last week or two. As I […]
Pull up a chair, it’s been awhile
Well world, I’m really sorry to have abandoned you these last couple of months. It’s just been one thing after another this year- a whirlwind to say the least. Basically, I went from working too much to getting ‘laid-off’ to making a major career shift to training for a half-marathon […]
Enchilada Soup
And now, in keeping with soups inspired by some of my favorite restaurants, here’s one that I’ve loved about as long as I can remember- Chili’s Chicken Enchilada Soup. Except, I mixed it up a bit, added some black beans and made it vegetarian (I know, shocker!). [Prep: 10min / […]
Crawfish Bisque
I tried this one for a special Valentine’s Day dinner. It’s sort of a hybrid adaptation of a tasty-looking recipe from allrecipes.com and my all-time favorite lobster bisque from Red Lobster— the recipe of which I cannot directly link to, but you can find it and all their other ‘secret’ recipes […]