Foodbuzz 24, 24, 24: High School Reunion: From Manila to San Diego, CA

We met in our sophomore year. Young, full of life, full of promise. Eager to take on a young world and experience it.  In our junior year, our paths took to slightly different directions. New cliques, new interests. By our senior year, we were focused on entirely new dreams and the promise of a new [...]

Foodbuzz Tastemakers: Mini Crab Cakes with Lemon-Dill Aioli from Safeway

With the holidays just around the corner, we are bound to be invited to at least one party before the year-end. Not to mention the parties we ourselves host.  Preparing dishes for the holidays is made easier by the many recipes available at Safeway.com. Because there’s always a Safeway or Vons nearby, shopping for ingredients [...]

Daring Bakers: Cannoli

The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and The Sopranos Family Cookbook by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michelle Scicolone, as ingredient/direction guides. She [...]