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Dear blogger friends and readers: It has been four years since I started blogging with 5 Star Foodie. It has been a fun journey, visiting and reviewing fine dining restaurants and cooking all...
This month our 5 Star Makeover group is celebrating Thanksgiving by re-making one of the classic holiday dishes, the Green Bean Casserole. These recipes will not be anything like the regular recipe...
It has been a joy to try the wonderful recipes from my friend Faith's cookbook An Edible Mosaic: Middle Eastern Fare with Extraordinary Flair. In addition to Zucchini Fritters, Spiced...
It is time for a sweet treat for our Mid-East Feast, dedicated to the celebration of the upcoming release of An Edible Mosaic: Middle Eastern Fare with Extraordinary Flair published by my blogger...
This month our 5 Star makeover cooking group continues to explore seasonal fall ingredients with Squash. Please, enjoy looking through all the wonderful creations and don't forget to click on the...
We are continuing the celebration of the upcoming release of Faith's gorgeous cookbook with a main course of Spiced Shawarma Chicken Wraps. To prepare the wraps, chicken breast had to be...
Welcome to the October edition of 5 Star Foodie Junior, a series of monthly posts that feature my daughter learning how to cook in the kitchen. Featured this month is Junior's contribution to our 5...
We are continuing our fall themes of seasonal vegetables for our 5 Star Makeover with exploring squash. There are many different types of squash, so we had a wide range of choices. For my makeover...
I am very excited to post today about the first dish I have made from a new cookbook "An Edible Mosaic: Middle Eastern Fare with Extraordinary Flair" which my long-time blogger friend Faith has just...
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting my blogger friend Elizabeth, or Chef E from Food ~ Wine ~ Fun. She was one of the first people to leave me a comment almost four years ago when I just...
New Hope, formerly Coryell's Ferry, is a charming historic town in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was originally an industrial town centered around its ferry to cross the Delaware river and the...
This month our 5 Star makeover cooking group has gathered to make all kinds of dishes with a seasonal ingredient - Apples. Please, enjoy looking through all the wonderful creations and don't forget...
Welcome to the September edition of 5 Star Foodie Junior, a series of monthly posts that feature my daughter learning how to cook in the kitchen. Featured this month is Junior's contribution to our...
This month's 5 Star Makeover featured ingredient is Apples. It is perfect for the season, and is quite a challenge to make a unique gourmet apple dish, since it is such a common every day...
This sponsorship is brought to you by Green Leaf's & Bananas who we have partnered with for this promotion. Just head on over to the Green Leaf's & Bananas Facebook page to enter for the...
After moving to a new house, a trip to IKEA was a must, and of course I got a bunch of Swedish foods there, including several different kind of herring, herring roe, lingonberry preserves, and other...
One evening last week 5 Star Foodie Junior and I were browsing through the various posts in the blogoshere and saw some desserts using avocado. Junior wasn't sure about using avocado in sweets. ...
One of our favorite "go-to" meals to put together quickly after a busy day is a flatbread pizza. We always have the yummy large naan from Wegmans available, and then put anything we like from...
After our Greek culinary adventures last month, with Greece being the origin of Olympic games, we thought it would be great to follow up with a British-inspired culinary theme since earlier this...
Welcome to the August edition of 5 Star Foodie Junior, a series of monthly posts that feature my daughter learning how to cook in the kitchen. Featured this month is Junior's contribution to our 5...
In the summertime, I always like to prepare light dishes with Mediterranean flavors, and Greek cuisine is my favorite to explore. Our 5 Star Makeover cooking group's theme this month is Greek Meze,...
This month our 5 Star Makeover cooking group has created some spectacular chilled soups, just perfect for the current hot summer weather. Please, enjoy looking through all the wonderful...
This month the theme for our 5 Star Makeover group is Chilled Soups. Chilled soups are easy to prepare, refreshing, and are just a perfect dish to make in summertime. My chilled soup is a...
In April and May, our 5 Star Makeover group has been engaged in a very special event - "Restaurant Wars" Top Chef style. We have divided all of our members in teams of three, and each group has...
This week is the finale of our special 5 Star Restaurant Wars and all the teams are posting their tasting menus highlighting their featured ingredients. My team's restaurant is named The...
A mushroom burger is a classic veggie burger and for my series I had to make my own version. To make the mushroom patties, I fried the mushrooms and onions and combined them in a food...
My new creation in 5 Star Burger series is an egg burger. The idea came from leftover ingredients, speck and wild ramps, which I used to make this delicious and simple spring pasta dish. The...
Welcome to the May edition of 5 Star Foodie Junior, a series of monthly posts that feature my daughter learning how to cook in the kitchen. Featured this month is Junior's contribution to 5 Star...
This weekend I decided to make a classic Tuna Melt Bagel sandwich into a Burger Bagel Melt, using a juicy burger patty made with organic free-range ground beef. I spread a layer of mayo on...
Last year I picked up some blue corn flour during my trip to Arizona and New Mexico. I still had a little leftover and decided to use it to make blue corn muffins. *** Blue Corn...
The night after I prepared the Indian Fry Bread Burger, 5 Star Foodie Junior and I got home late and I didn't have much time to prepare dinner. I did have a leftover bison and bean patty from the...
In April and May, our 5 Star Makeover is a very special event - "Restaurant Wars" Top Chef style. We have divided all of our members in teams of three, and each group has chosen a theme or a focus...
Originally I was planning to prepare Indian Fry Bread and make Indian tacos, with bison and bean fry, topped with shredded cheddar and pepper jack cheese mixture, lettuce, tomato, and avocado. ...
Dear Blogger Friends and Readers: This is a diary that's all about ... burgers. A burger is just a basic food really that is not considered so gourmet, but there's nothing more enjoyable than a...
One of the very first recipes that I ever published on this blog was a Russian specialty, Pirozhki. Back then I hardly had any visitors and since I happened to be baking pirozhki today, I decided...
My favorite part of blogging is working with Lazaro, my friend and co-host of the 5 Star Makeover Group. Lazaro is such an amazingly creative cook and always inspires me as well as everyone who...
5 Star Foodie Junior: This month, Mommy and I were asked to be judges for the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Cooking Contest at the Cook the Books Club hosted by Mommy's friend Deb from Kahakai...
This month we have taken our favorite "junk foods", something we love to snack on or our "guilty pleasures", and incorporated this "junk food" into unique gourmet dishes. Thank you to all 5 Star...
This month, the 5 Star bloggers are coming together for a very fun project. We are taking our favorite junk food, something we typically like to snack on, and using our snack of choice in a...
Coming up next week is a long awaited season premiere of my favorite TV Show, Mad Men. I cannot wait to watch the show again and I was thrilled to be invited to participate in a Virtual Mad Men...
Welcome to the February edition of 5 Star Foodie Junior, a series of monthly posts that feature my daughter learning how to cook in the kitchen. Featured this month is a recipe from "Pie it...
Brussels sprouts are typically served as a side dish but in my dish today they are the featured ingredient. These Brussels sprouts come from Ocean Mist Farms, a free sample that I have been fortunate...
I discovered Brussels sprouts fairly recently in my culinary adventures and as soon as I tried them I really liked their delicate, nutty flavor. When I had the Brussels sprouts at Alex in Las Vegas...
Welcome to the February edition of 5 Star Foodie Junior, a series of monthly posts that feature my daughter learning how to cook in the kitchen. Featured this month is Aloo Pies, a recipe that we...
This month we celebrate beets as our theme ingredient for our monthly 5 Star Makeover Cooking Group. Thank you to all the participants and my co-host Lazaro for your hard work and creativity! ...
The sweet and colorful beets are at the peak of their season right now and we have chosen to highligh this ingredient as a theme for this month's 5 Star Makeover. I personally love beets...
Last night, I made a very special dish for the 5 Star Makeover monthly event coming up next week, and I had leftover ingredients so I have decided to use them up in a quinoa salad for our dinner...
It's been a very busy winter season, and I'm sure my readers have noticed that I have been posting a little less than usual, and my blogger friends know that I haven't been doing as much blog reading...
Blintzes are one of my favorite dishes to make and eat. Typically, the filling is sweet ricotta, but growing up we also had our savory blintzes filled with ground chicken or mushrooms. ...
More Than Gourmet is a company that makes classic French stocks and sauces in the old world tradition. Only the highest quality fresh ingredients are used to produce these sauces. All the sauces and...
