Eating healthy is very important. The less ingredients I incorporate in the foods I eat, the better my body feels from its diet. The easier it is to digest my food and the happier I am from withholding overly processed and chemical induced foods. Over the weekend I decided to share two quick and easy … Continue reading »
Every weekend we head into town to our local fruit&vegetable stand. The vendor, whose uncommonly plump and tall figure smiles every time he says, “poso?” (anything else) While he puts my pickings into thick lunch-bag styled paper bags and weighs it at the corner of his stand, I smile admiring his teddy bear kindness. Sensing the crowds … Continue reading »
Homemade Banana Cupcakes It has been awhile since my last “Eats and Treats” post, so yesterday I decided to make homemade banana cupcakes! My new favorite and not the pre-packaged, just add water mix. These are the real deal and the recipe found from gourmetgeema @ http://www.grouprecipes.com/87041/easy-banana-cupcakes.html My Modifications: 1 cup of melted butter 2 cups of sugar 3 … Continue reading »
With all the delicious foods we shared eating in Taormina, we decided to work off our calories by balancing our cores and flattening our tummies with a few fun planks. Haha. All the sweets got to our heads! Silly couple, we know. Continue reading »
“Little Tunny.” I brought you home only because your related “Tuna” family member wasn’t available. It’s a very delicate matter, my career in Ophthalmology has led to my sensitivity to your delicate organs. So how can I be faulted for my unwillingness to see that part of you? Your eyes? BTW! It doesn’t help that … Continue reading »
Breakfast, the most important meal of the day. The mornings heartiness is important for nutritional balance that helps jump start our metabolism and kicks off the day. Not so much here. Where on warm mornings an ice-slushy with a cream consistency called a granita served with a soft rounded brioche bread are consumed. No offense, … Continue reading »
Eggplant, a staple in the Sicilian diet. To every market you visit and vegetable stand on the corner there is always an abundance of eggplant. I’ve never understood its plumb form until moving here. Where finally its overabundance caught my instinctive curiosity to infuse this Sicilian favorite with my own American flair. Tonight marked another … Continue reading »
