As summer rolls in, the sun is gleaming, kids are out playing, and everyone wants a cooling treat. While ice cream stands as the number one summer treat without avail, strawberry ice cream is an everlasting favorite for its unpretentious flavor and refreshing melt in your mouth luxurious feel. And as Ramadan graces us with…
“Doughnuts! Is there anything they can’t do? “ – Hommer Simpson Eating doughnuts is uniquely patriotic. National Doughnut Day occurs every year on the first Friday in June, prompting the nation’s best known doughnut makers to roll out the red carpet for doughnut aficionados from East to West with offers of free doughnuts. Created by…
June has arrived, happy new month! Did you know that the month June is named after Juno the Goddess of Marriage? I wonder if that is why June Weddings are so popular among brides. Well, that is not the only thing on our minds in June. As we start inching towards summer, we also start…
Originating in Hungarian cuisine, it is a dessert disguised as soup and is a summer delicacy in several European cuisines. Sour Cherry Soup has been adopted by the Austrians, Poles, Slovaks, and Germans. Hungarian-Americans and Hungarian-Canadians brought the soup to the New World. In Hungarian cuisine, Sour Cherry Soup or Meggyleves is a soup made…
Cinco de Mayo, Spanish for “May 5th” or literally “Five of May,” is a Mexican celebration held on the 5th of May annually. In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken to be Mexico’s Independence Day—the most important national holiday in Mexico—which is celebrated on September 16th. In actuality, Cinco de Mayo has…
I have been having a love affair with minty green hued food lately. Perhaps it’s an after effect from St. Patrick’s Days. Today, I have something to share in honor of an Indian holiday that is all about color. Holi, is the Hindu religious spring festival of colors, also known as the festival of sharing…
Last weekend I made Irish Cream and it’s so much better when it’s homemade. Imagine how they process the bottled stuff, where you have cream unrefrigerated and shelved. Baileys Irish Cream originates from Gilbeys of Ireland and the emulsion uses an emulsifier containing refined vegetable oil. I’ll pass on the vegetable oil in my cream…
It’s Oscar weekend, that means all across America people are throwing parties and guessing who this year’s big wins will be for the Academy Awards. The 88th Academy Awards, or “Oscars”, is being held this Sunday at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. The annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…