by messienessie_62pahm | Jun 16, 2012 | Healthful Eats, Live, Quick and Easy Meals, Spring & Summer Recipes
For our daily lunch over here at Casa de Groovy, we often eat a variety of green salads or things like tuna, salmon or chicken salad on brown rice cake, served with assorted fresh veggies and humus. These lunches are always extremely satisfying, never weigh us down...
by messienessie_62pahm | Jun 15, 2012 | Grilling, Holiday Fare, Live, World Cuisine
With Father’s Day just around the corner dads all over the nation are prepping their grills for the second most notable BBQ day of the year (the first being 4th of July.) If the dads in your life want to spend the day at the grill, I say more power to ’em...
by messienessie_62pahm | Jun 7, 2012 | Healthful Eats, Live, World Cuisine
After my last post, many of my readers voiced that they had never had or heard of Injera bread. This was so exciting to me (I love introducing folks to new things and Ethiopian food is one of my favs.) If you like Indian food, Arabic food or are the least bit...
by messienessie_62pahm | Jun 4, 2012 | Breads and Rolls (NOT GF), Holiday Fare, Live, World Cuisine
Here in Portlandia, a city resplendent with good food, we have our choice of tasty Ethiopian restaurants. In fact, we have so many that I choose a different one, depending on the item on the menu I’m most craving and who does that item best. If I want...
by messienessie_62pahm | May 31, 2012 | Grilling, Live, Luscious Desserts, Quick and Easy Meals
Forget what Beck says — peaches and cream is NOT such a “dangerous dream.” In fact, when it comes to summer fruits, eating healthfully never tasted so good. Summer fruits like peaches, plums, cherries, watermelon and pineapple taste great fresh but...
by messienessie_62pahm | May 25, 2012 | Breads and Rolls (NOT GF), Comfort Food, Gluten-Free, Live
Sometimes the weekend comes (especially Sunday mornings!) and you just want a little something special. Something sweet and baked and satisfying — something that makes you feel like a kid again. Blueberry muffins can do that for me — well, GOOD blueberry...
