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Summer Main Dish Salad with Poached Salmon

 

 For hot summer days, a main dish salad with chunks of salmon, veggies, herbs and orzo is just what you need. This salad is light but tasty and most of all so easy to make! Types of Salmon and Trout for Poaching Salmon is in season right now and as […]

Meaty, Tender Crab Cakes

 

 Crab cake is right up there on my list of best seafood dishes and I can eat it almost every day. Crab cakes full of plump, sweet, tender crabmeat is a perfect dish for a warm, summer day! Crabmeat I like different textures of crab meat in my crab cakes […]

Cheese Biscuits with Rosemary and Sundried Tomatoes

 

 Savory, buttery biscuits are one of those hard to resist goodies for me. They are easy to make and perfect to have for breakfast, tea time, appetizer or as a side to your main dish. I make my biscuits full of Parmesan cheese, fresh Rosemary and bits of sweet sundried […]

Umeshu, Japanese Plum Liqueur

 

 When I was growing up in Japan, I remember glass jars of plum liqueur or Umeshu in my grandmother’s pantry. Every year she would pick basketful of green plums from her garden and prepare a new jar of plum liqueur. I love drinking this sweet, soothing liquor and around this […]

Blueberry Orange Bundt Cake

 

 One of my favorite cakes to bake, (when I decide to bake a cake that is) is Bundt cake with fresh blueberries. My Bundt cake is an adaptation from Martha Stewart’s recipe that I found online several years ago. This Bundt cake is refreshing, buttery and has the perfect juicy […]