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Halloween Recipe for Kokoliving Magazine

Halloween Recipe for Kokoliving Magazine

Kathy, the Editor-in-Chief for Kokoliving.com’s online magazine, asked me if I wanted to contribute a recipe for either October or November. Although creating a Thanksgiving side dish would’ve been easier and right up my alley, I wanted to challenge myself and make a creative and…

Vlog: Potluck Party

Vlog: Potluck Party

I promised you a video log of me taking my warm corn salad to a potluck party, and I don’t like to disappoint. There was no particular “theme” to this potluck, so I figured I’d bring something cheap, in season, and neutral enough to go…

Warm Corn Salad

Warm Corn Salad

I’m always on a mission to find or create dishes that can be taken to go, such as my orzo salad with roasted tomatoes, or potluck pesto pasta. Whenever I get invited to a potluck party, I try to make something that can get along…

Vlog: Lunch at Sharky’s

Vlog: Lunch at Sharky’s

Whenever I go out to eat, which honestly isn’t that often, I like to either take pictures or in this case, record a video. My two friends and I met up for a quick lunch at Sharky’s Woodfired Mexican Grill at “The District” in Tustin,…

Chicken and Broccoli Burrito

Chicken and Broccoli Burrito

This is a burrito for one… one very lucky person. But I was nice and made two, so that my husband could enjoy one too. Everything came together so quickly, thanks to a little help from my trusty Costco rotisserie chicken. But broccoli in a…

Pork Chops with Balsamic Apples

Pork Chops with Balsamic Apples

“That’s the way they all became the Brady Bunch.”  We recently watched the Biography of “The Brady Bunch” on TV, and it made me reminisce of all the great episodes I watched after school as a latch key kid, through syndication of course.  That’s probably…