Black beans and sausage

I recently cooked up some black beans and sausage in a small crock pot. The slow cooked black beans and sausage came out great and smelled amazing as well. For lunch that day, I scoop some of the black beans and sausage onto a herb mix salad and enjoyed it along with a slice of [...]

Arborio rice in artichoke tea

I have been meaning to try this for a while – to cook rice with tea. Usually, I cook rice with water in a rice cooker. Sometimes, I would use a chicken or veggie broth to give the rice some addition flavor, but I don’t think I have used any other liquid base before. I [...]

Wheat snack cracker recipe

Here is a recipe for some awesome snack crackers – kind of like wheat thins, but homemade from scratch and baked in a hot oven. These snack crackers goes well by itself or with some tasty dip.

Windowsill herb garden

I recently moved into a single floor of an old school two-family house. The cool part of living in a house is that there’s a mini back porch and a garage. I decided to plant a mini herb garden out in the back porch. I bought a small kitchen herbs windowsill kit. I found it [...]

Steak dinner at the new apt

It’s been about 1.5 weeks since I moved into the new place. I still haven’t finished unpacking and settling down, but I’ve got a bed to sleep on and a the kitchen is somewhat operational. My bedroom got downgraded to half the size of my previous bedroom, but the kitchen in the new place is [...]