Introducing the Wedding Gift Recipe Series

About a week ago, we received a wedding invitation from our good friends Chuck and Sarah, who are getting married in October. It made me smile, as I remembered how we got to be such great friends with them – I worked with Sarah last year, and through work, we (along with Mike, Chuck, and [...]

relaunching the blog

Hi everyone,
Welcome (again) to the blog. We have just made the blog more “public”, so that it will now appear on search engines like Google. Cheers!

Introducing Macho

Macho is a nickname that my niece and nephew gave me because they were unable to pronounce Masako when they were wee little ones. Now they are 9 and 7, but they still call me Macho. My contribution to the foodie collaborative will be mainly sweets but I may post a Japanese dish here [...]

Introducing Padraig

Gina invited me to be the foodie collaborative’s resident drink specialist. After deciding that her invitation was a compliment and not an “intervention,” I happily agreed. My first drink that I can remember was a sip of my dad’s scotch and soda, when I was about seven years old. I didn’t like [...]

introducing gina

Greetings from Minnesota, everyone!
Let’s see… well, I grew up outside of Chicago in a Filipino household where food was always at the center of our family life. I learned at an early age to always be thankful for good food, because you’ll often find good company nearby. I think I cooked my first meal as [...]

Introducing Alice

Hi readers! I’m a 30-something vegetarian (mostly) who has an addiction to seasonal, local food. My husband and I have our own vegetable garden in Illinois, and we grow tomatoes, peppers, garlic, onions, herbs, chard, carrots, spinach, cucumbers and zucchini when the weather cooperates. We eat well in the summer, and preserve [...]