summer

Quinoa fruit salad with chia seeds.

August 12, 2011
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Hello dear friends, have you missed me? If you follow me on Twitter you know how busy I’ve been lately: new job, books to read, taking care of my sick brother… Life is going so fast it scares me sometimes. I am going back to school in a month and I’m trying to figure out [...]

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Summer fruit cake ~ #baketogether with Abby Dodge.

August 5, 2011
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#baketogether: group of bakers that every month put their twists and flavors to the recipe Abby Dodge [the #baketogether creator and leader] provides for the monthly challenge. We have no deadlines and the only rule is to be creative and take at least one photo: if you don’t have a blog, a twitpic or yfrog [...]

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Recipe Redux: Green tea ginger limeade with chia seeds.

July 21, 2011
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This month’s Recipe Redux is all about Summer Beverages. In case you missed last month’s Recipe Redux, check out my Grilled Vegetables post for June’s Grilling theme and while you’re there click on the links at the end of the post if you need grilling ideas and recipes. What is the Recipe Redux? From Regan’s blog: As the first and only [...]

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Dragon Fruit Lime Sorbet ~ #BakeTogether June 2011.

June 30, 2011
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You might remember last month’s #BakeTogether challenge which made me come up with this beautiful chocolate truffle tart [my twist: oreo crust, nutella mascarpone topping and crispearls]. We started brainstorming on Twitter about which would be the theme for this month’s #BakeTogether: we all agreed on some sort of frozen dessert: sorbet, granita or ice cream. I [...]

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Strawberry Caprese Salad ~ French Fridays with Dorie.

June 24, 2011
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This week’s recipe is strawberry, mozzarella and tomato salad from page 118 from Around my French Table. I found some beautiful baby arugula sprouts at the supermarket yesterday and couldn’t resist adding them to this salad. I used cherry tomatoes and baby mozzarella to enhance the cuteness of this already beautiful dish.

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Grilled Vegetables ~ The Recipe Redux.

June 21, 2011
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Summer officially starts today: that equals a lot of outdoor grilling, pitchers of lemonade or sangría and fun popsicles in the sun. Some people love grilling meat but my favorite food on the grill is definitely vegetables: eggplant, zucchini, onions, tomatoes, red peppers… More than a side dish for meat a plate of these veggies [...]

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Delicious Links! 06.20.11

June 20, 2011
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Happy Monday my friends! Today’s delicious links are all about frozen treats: ice creams, sorbets and granitas. The weather here has been pretty intense and I plan on keeping the ice cream maker bowl in the freezer all summer I linked to my mango sorbet recipe on my last post and now I am posting [...]

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Mahi-Mahi Watermelon Ceviche

October 27, 2010

Ceviche is a delicious, light and easy to make South-American seafood dish: its the perfect summer meal, no cooking involved. I know some of you are having snow already but in my island we have 365 days of summer, so its normal to have ceviche year-round. Think of ceviche as latin-sashimi. Raw bite-sized pieces of seafood [...]

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