Tomato Rice Pilaf Recipe

A delicious rice dish is always great to accompany a hearty meal. Here’s a simple rice pilaf dish that uses diced tomatoes. This vegetarian side dish can be enjoyed by all – next to grilled eggplants or a chicken dish for the omnivores and such. This rice dish takes about 10 minutes to prep. Then [...]

Looky Samples! Green Giant Valley Fresh Steamers: Healthy Colors

I often turn to package frozen vegetables mostly for their convenience. They’re already washed, can be found whole or chopped, and are available alone or in vegetable medleys. It definitely makes it very easy and convenient to have vegetables handy in the freezer, for all your cooking needs. As part of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker Program, [...]

Cookplus Speedcook Sauce Pan Review

One of the newest additions to my cookware is the Lock&Lock Cookplus Speedcook 7.1-In Sauce Pan. This sauce pan is designed to make cooking ramen, or any noodle soup dish, a simple process. It kind of arrived at my doorstep at a very convenient time. I’m currently involved in some recipe testing for Terry Hope [...]

Taste-Testing Kikkoman’s Kara-Age Soy-Ginger Seasoned Coating Mix

Have you ever wondered how to recreate that tasty Japanese-style fried chicken, more commonly known as chicken kara-age, in your own kitchen? Well, Kikkoman recently introduced a new product that makes it super easy to incorporate that kara-age taste to your menu. As part of a Foodbuzz Tastemaker program with Kikkoman, I recently received a [...]

A Green Tea Watermelon Smoothie and a Mushroom Lasagna

I posted about Chef Rocco DiSpirito’s Now Eat This! Diet cookbook earlier this week. With permission, I’m going to share with you two recipes from cookbook. By the way, there’s still a chance to win an autographed copy of the cookbook. Enter the giveaway here if you’re interested! The first recipe is for a refreshing [...]