A Savory Tomato Quick Bread Recipe

Tomatoes in a quick bread? I’ve never tried that before, until now. I came across this recipe for Spicy Tomato Bread from the Red Gold Recipe Collection. It looked like a very simple and easy recipe with basic ingredients that you’d probably already have in your pantry – a can of tomatoes, bunch of spices, [...]

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, [...]

Kombu Enoki Tsukudani, A Simmered Dish

Kombu is kind of edible kelp that’s commonly used in Japanese cooking for making dash, a basic soup stock for things like miso soup, ramen, hot pot, and other simmered dishes. Kombo is often sold dried, in thick strips. One or two strips of dried kombu is placed into cold water and then heated to [...]

Chocolate Swirl Mantou, Another Kind Of Steamed Bun

As I had mentioned in an earlier post, I received a package of Ghirardelli Intense Dark chocolates as part of a Foodbuzz Tastemaker program. The thin, luscious squares of chocolate are great to enjoy on its own, but as I was browsing through their Chocolate Pairing Guide, I was thinking about what else I could [...]

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 [...]