I noticed a lot of people coming to read last year’s Ramadan posts and I thought it was time for a new one today. It’s the start of Ramadan and Muslim people around the world will start a month long ritual of fasting from sunrise to sunset starting tomorrow. For the first day of Ramadan…
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…
It’s hotter than ever out here and almost feels like summer. It makes me want to brighten things up with bold summer colors. Since the heat is already on, I thought I would turn it up a notch with a vibrant orange hued soup that screams like the summer sun with fragrant spices of the…
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…
Today is the first Friday in March, which means it’s time for A Fork & A Flick Friday. It’s when once a month I sit back and enjoy a movie and allow myself to be fully immersed in it with an inspired dish. This month I was a bit torn with Oscar Sunday having just…
It’s already been quite a week and there is still more to come. We ended Sunday with the Superbowl, today we celebrated Chinese New Year, and tomorrow it’s Fat Tuesday or in French Mardi Gras. It’s what many parts of the world also call Shrove Tuesday or Carnival. Here in the United States, New Orleans…
Today millions of people around the world have started elaborate celebrations for Chinese New Year 2016. It is not just the Asian countries that are dedicated to festivities and fireworks that create so much smoke that you can hardly see beyond a foot. The Sydney Opera House in Australia was bathed in red light as…