You may or may not know that today is Shawna Coronado’s birthday.  (If you want, click on that link and go wish her a happy b-day.  I’ll still be here!) Anyway, rather that doing something sensible like giving her a gift, I figured I would take all of her delicious nude vegetables (that means no…

Make Your Own Sushi On SheKnows.com, I wrote an article a while back on how to make your own sushi. Everyone loves sushi, but where’s the love for making it? Maybe it’s the artistry or perhaps the raw fish, but the mere suggestion of making sushi at home is enough to strike fear into the…

Last night’s foray into Boston cream pie got me thinking about other uses for pastry cream like, say, Banana Cream Pie  You know, I like Boston cream pie a lot, but nothing, and people I’m being serious here, nothing beats a banana cream pie when it comes to members of the cream pie family.  Plus, it’s…

Eat, Pray, Love… Anywhere (and Everywhere) Eat, Pray, Love is the about-to-be-released film where Julia Roberts portrays Liz Gilbert, a woman who has recently suffered a long, arduous divorce.  In an effort to overcome her past and chart a new direction in her life, she travels around the world, trying new things, throwing out conventional wisdom,…