Posted in Recipe Review, healthy, recipes, stir fry, tagged easy stirfry chicken on July 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Yum, healthy chicken stir fry. Seriously, I love this stuff. Anyway, I have these cookbooks and all of them have various types of chicken stir fry. So I grabbed various ideas from all of them and created my own easy chicken stir fry.
1/2 TBSP cornstarch
2 tsp chopped ginger (I used the jar of sliced ginger in its [...]
Posted in Recipe Review, healthy, recipes, stir fry, tagged easy beef with chilis and mint, easy lamb with chilis and mint on June 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I am using several cookbooks so I can learn how to make authentic Asian dishes — and then eventually turn the recipes into my own.
One of my cookbooks had this recipe for stir-fry lamb with mint and chili. While I wasn’t able to find a recipe that’s identical to the one in my cookbook, I did [...]
Posted in Recipe Review, healthy, recipes, tagged baked cornmeal catfish on June 22, 2008 | No Comments »
After my dad read my recipe for my broiled garlic lemon catfish, he suggested I try his recipe for cornmeal catfish. Here’s his recipe:
Marinade the catfish is a 1/2 a cup of hot sauce and a 1/2 cup of light beer for 30 minutes in the fridge. Cover with a mixture of corn starch, yellow [...]
Posted in $, Korean, Lunch, Restaurant Review, casual attire, golden triangle, healthy, japanese, sushi, vegetarian, tagged suki asia washington dc on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I vaguely remember when Suki Asia opened — I think two or three years ago. I have been once before and remember ordering sushi and it was pretty good. But it had been a couple of years since I had been so I thought I’d try it again for the blog. Their menu is pretty brief and actually [...]
Posted in $$, Dinner, Eastern Mediterranean, Happy Hour, Lunch, Parent Appropriate, Restaurant Review, alfresco, apps, casual attire, date appropriate, dupont circle, greek, healthy, vegetarian, tagged skewers washington dc on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I seem to always walk by places and never go in them and Skewers is another restaurant that I’ve wanted to try.
Food:I ordered the Lamb Kebob Light Combination, but light it wasn’t! There’s a lot of food! I ordered a side of hummus which was a perfect smooth texture and fantastic flavor. The tabouleh was [...]
Posted in $$$, Brunch, Client Appropriate, Dessert, Lunch, Parent Appropriate, Restaurant Review, Seafood, Wine, apps, business casual attire, date appropriate, georgetown, healthy, spirits/liquor, tagged hook washington dc, organic sustainable restaurant washington dc on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my all-time favorite restaurants in DC is Hook. Is it the fact that it’s an organic and sustainable restaurant in DC? Is it the fact that the pastry chef is so widely respected? Or is it because Barton Seaver is such a cutie? Yeah…
Food:To start off the meal, I ordered the calamari salad [...]
Posted in Recipe Review, healthy, low-fat, recipes, tagged garlic lemon catfish, healthy broiled catfish on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
With the heat, I thought a light meal of catfish would be really yummy. And while I love fried catfish (really fried anything) as much as the next person, I wanted to keep it healthy.
So here’s my broiled lemon catfish recipe:
1 lb of catfish
3-4 tsp of Old Bay Seasoning (enough to cover both sides of the [...]
Posted in Snacks, healthy, kid-friendly, tagged 100 calorie chips ahoy snack pack review, bush choking on a pretzel, crazy food label on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Blah blah blah, free snacks when I was walking down the street (story here). So I got a free package of these 100 calorie Chips Ahoy Candy Bites.
I thought these were really good and I liked them. They were kinda like a malted milk ball with a Chips Ahoy cookie crunch.
While only 100 calories [...]
Posted in Recipe Review, healthy, recipes, tagged low fat recipe, mac and cheese low fat on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Mac and cheese is quite possibly one of the best foods ever invented. To me, it’s truly comfort food. But it’s so unhealthy so I rarely make it.
Here’s my recipe for lower in fat mac & cheese for 3-4 people. It’s pretty good — creamy, cheesy, and yummy.
Ingredients:
3 cups of uncooked macaroni noodles (I only [...]
Posted in Recipe Review, cookies, healthy, recipes, tagged healthy honey oatmeal cookies on April 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
My quest to use up honey continues. Why did I buy so much? Oh well…
Anyway, I found this recipe for healthy honey oatmeal cookies. These were pretty easy to make, but they were also really sweet — or at least for me.
I’d definitely cut down on the brown sugar and if you want to add [...]
Posted in Recipe Review, cakes & brownies, healthy, recipes, tagged swirled zebra cake recipe on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Phew, I used up the very last of my plain yogurt before it expired. Thankfully, I found this easy and low-fat recipe for swirled zebra cake.
A few modifications:
Again, I used dark cocoa powder so I put in an additional 2 TBSP of sugar
I had to bake the cake for 1.25 hours
You’ll see in the photo that [...]
Posted in Recipe Review, breakfast, healthy, recipes, tagged Low-fat Healthy Pancake Recipe on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t had pancakes in forever and one evening, I was hungry. But I’m trying to be good so I decided to make them healthy — and so I made up a recipe.
Here it is:
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 all purpose flour
6 tsp of baking powder (so they’re nice and fluffy!)
1/2 tsp of salt
1 [...]
Posted in Recipe Review, healthy, recipes, tagged Indian Salmon recipe on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
When I was at Trader Joe’s a few weeks ago, I bought a lot of seafood — including some salmon. But I wanted to branch out and use something other than lemon juice, capers, onions, and garlic on my salmon (even though that combo is really good).
So that’s when I found this recipe for Indian Salmon. [...]
Posted in $, Delivery, Lunch, Restaurant Review, casual attire, dupont circle, healthy, salad, soup, vegetarian, tagged chop't restaurant washington dc on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
While I wasn’t able to try out their free salad, I was looking forward to trying Chop’t.
Food:I ordered the Kebab Cobb Salad (not on their take-out menu but on their menu board at the restaurant) with romaine, red onions, crispy flat bread, Goat Cheese (didn’t have Feta that day), and vinaigrette dressing. You also get [...]
Posted in Recipe Review, bread & muffins, healthy, recipes, tagged low-fat chocolate muffin recipe on February 28, 2008 | No Comments »
My quest to use up the abundence of cocoa powder continues, so I found this low-fat chocolat muffin recipe on Hershey’s Web site.
I will absolutely make these again because while they were healthy, THEY HAD CHOCOLATE IN THEM. Ha, I love chocolate. It makes everything OK (well, almost).
Yes, they were a little spongy but they did [...]
Posted in $, Dinner, Lunch, Pizza, Restaurant Review, alfresco, casual attire, dupont circle, healthy, kid-friendly, mediterranean, vegetarian, tagged Aioli Mediterranean on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Feeling like taking a bit more of a hike for lunch than normal, I thought I’d try Aioli Mediterranean. Thankfully, I was able to convince a friend of mine to join me.
Food:We looked at their menu online and I decided to order the Roma (right sandwich), with dry cured Prosciutto Ham, lightly smoked Mortadella, Genoa [...]
Posted in $, Dinner, Korean, casual attire, chinese, columbia heights/mount pleasant, healthy, japanese, vegetarian, tagged adams express columbia heights mount pleasant on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I went to Adam Express (Menu Side A and Menu Side B– click on the lower right hand box with the arrows so it makes the menu bigger) with a friend of mine to try out their food after reading so many great reviews.
Food:When we first went, it was packed (umm, there are only 5 stools so it’s not [...]
Posted in $, Delivery, Dinner, Lunch, Pizza, Restaurant Review, casual attire, healthy, kid-friendly, late night menu, mediterranean, middle east, turkish, vegetarian, tagged rumi washington dc on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Feeling like something different for lunch, I convinced a friend of mine to go with me to Rumi Restaurant.
Food:I went twice — once I went to their restaurant and the second time I ordered delivery. The first time, I ordered their chicken doner (first photo). It was really good, but there was no “Special Rumi [...]
Posted in Bread Machine, bread & muffins, healthy, tagged yogurt bread machine recipe on January 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In a desire to try to be healthier, I thought I’d try out this recipe for yogurt bread.
My verdict? It tasted like healthy bread and not in a good way. While the crust was spectacular, the bread was bland. I even toasted it with a bit of butter, but it didn’t help. Perhaps if I [...]
Posted in food news, healthy, vegan, tagged dc vegan, professional football vegan on January 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Much to my mom’s chagrin, I ate a cheeseburger last night. I was tired and a bit grumpy — so I decided that would lighten my mood. Well it really didn’t and in fact, I felt (and still feel) guilty about it. It doesn’t help that she’s brought it up in every email and IMs [...]
Posted in Recipe Review, bread & muffins, breakfast, healthy, recipes, tagged fruit whole wheat healthy yogurt muffins on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Yet again, trying to be healthy so I thought I’d try to make these whole wheat yogurt muffins. I wanted to use up some of the yogurt that I had in the fridge and the apricot sauce I accidentally bought at Trader Joe’s (I meant to buy mango sauce, but I wasn’t paying attention and [...]
Posted in Dessert, columbia heights/mount pleasant, healthy, kid-friendly, vegan, tagged sticky fingers bakery, vegan bakery on January 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you have never been, YOU MUST GO to Sticky Fingers Bakery. Don’t be afraid of “vegan” — don’t hesitate for a second if you’re worried about the taste.
This is quite possibly the best oatmeal sandwich (called Cowvin Cookies) I’ve ever eaten. It was sweet, moist, and so amazing. It’s also only $2.50 (or so) [...]
Posted in $, Dinner, Lunch, Parent Appropriate, Restaurant Review, casual attire, falls church va, healthy, kid-friendly, vietnamese, tagged pho tay ho falls church seven corners on January 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
After telling my friend that there’s this great pho place at Seven Corners, she thought this was the place I was referring to (it wasn’t). But, we went into Pho Tay Ho to grab a bowl.
Food: I ordered the beef pho which was really good. I ordered the Tai and Nam beef (meaning eye round [...]
Posted in $$, Dessert, Lunch, Parent Appropriate, Restaurant Review, casual attire, date appropriate, dupont circle, healthy, japanese, sushi, tagged taro sushi on January 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been to Sushi Taro a handful of times and have always had great food. I’ve also always had a wait — no matter the date or time I go.
Food:The most recent time, I ordered eel. My friend and I split an order of adegashi tofu, Japanese fried sweet potato, shiso leaf, asparagus, Shiitake mushroom, and eggplant. The [...]
Posted in $, Delivery, Dinner, Lunch, Parent Appropriate, Restaurant Review, Thai, alfresco, casual attire, date appropriate, healthy, japanese, sushi, vegetarian, tagged nooshi japanese restaurant delivery on December 30, 2007 | No Comments »
When you’re looking for quick and decent Thai food in the Golden Triangle area, you go to Nooshi (formerly known as Oodles Noodles).
Food:Surprise! I usually order Pad Thai with tofu or chicken, but one day I thought I should try something different. So I got the Mee Goreng which is described as spicy marriage of [...]
Posted in Dinner, Lunch, Recipe Review, healthy, recipes, tagged easy healthy fish taco on December 15, 2007 | No Comments »
I had cabbage and was in the mood to make some fish tacos. Yeah, I know it’s more of a summer thing, but I thought it’d be fun.
Anyway, it was and healthy!
Ingredients:
1 lb of cod (I couldn’t find any so I used catfish, but you’ll want a mild white fish)
Old Bay seasoning
1 TBSP lemon [...]
Posted in $, Dinner, Korean, Lunch, Restaurant Review, casual attire, healthy, japanese, kid-friendly, vegetarian, vietnamese, tagged asian bistro, pho soup washington dc on December 13, 2007 | No Comments »
DC in the winter is cold — I’ll admit it. It’s not Boston/NY cold, but it’s cold enough. And unlike Boston or NY, we don’t have as many snow plows, salt trucks, etc so when snow hits, forget it.
But when it’s cold and snowing outside, there’s something about Pho that makes you feel better. When I heard there was [...]
Posted in $, Adams Morgan/Woodley Park, Dinner, Lunch, Restaurant Review, breakfast, casual attire, deli, healthy, kid-friendly, tagged so's your mom sandwich shop on December 10, 2007 | No Comments »
I had only been there for bagels (not sure where they get them from) because they are quite tasty. I hadn’t tried their sandwiches, until recently. And check it out — I took photos of their menu!
Food: While they offer 66+ different sandwiches, it’s the one that isn’t on their menu [...]
Posted in $$, Dessert, Dinner, Indian, Lunch, Parent Appropriate, Restaurant Review, casual attire, date appropriate, healthy, vegetarian, tagged nirvana indian restaurant on December 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I wanted to try another Indian restaurant since I loved Naan & Beyond so much. So I found Nirvana and was able to go with a friend to try it.
Food:The menu (Nirvana Menu and Nirvana Menu Side B) looked really good and we couldn’t really decide what to order. So we decided to try the buffet so we could try [...]
Posted in $$, Delivery, Dinner, Lunch, Parent Appropriate, Restaurant Review, casual attire, chinese, date appropriate, dupont circle, healthy, kid-friendly, spirits/liquor, vegan, vegetarian, tagged city lights of china on December 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Is it just me, or do you hate to cook on Fridays? Well, I hate it. So before I left my office, I thought I’d call in an order to City Lights of China for pick-up. Although I’ve walked by it a million times before, I’d never ordered anything.
Food: Don’t judge, but I ordered a lot of food [...]
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