If you follow Malibu Kitchen Blog, most likely you are wondering why I posted another quiche recipe. To be honest, when I make quiche, I always make two at a time. So when I made my quiche with carmelized onions, mushrooms, spinach + feta cheese, I made this healthier quiche lorraine as well. Quiches are something I…
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Are you surprised to see a new post from me? I know, it has been a long time since I’ve posted. But I’m back…at least for today. Work and family life has been keeping me super busy, so I have had to put blogging aside. I’m hoping I will be able to start posting to the…
Keep Readingstrawberry + banana chilled oatmeal
Whether it’s salad, noodles, cupcakes, or chilled oatmeal, loads of deliciousness is being crammed into jars of all sizes. Why not do it? It’s convenient, aesthetically pleasing, simple, made ahead, and most of all…portable. That is why I do it! As you may have seen in my most recent blog postings, I’ve returned to my…
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Spicy Pecans not only add salt and spice to this soup, but they add crunch too.
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Moist and delicious meatballs.
Keep Readingitalian chopped salad + creamy dressing
For those of us who live and/or dine in Malibu, Guido’s Italian Restaurant will always be missed.
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I often question if I am a cook or a baker. I love to do both but if I enrolled in culinary school, I would choose cooking courses over baking. However, after baking this fresh apple cake + glaze, I now question myself all over again. I do my best to feed my family healthy and…
Keep Readingchicken + gnocchi dumpling soup
As you can probably guess from both of these dishes, is that I love the taste and texture of doughy things. And this simple chicken and gnocchi dumpling soup, with a California twist, doesn’t disappoint my craving for southern food. Now days, I don’t always have time to make dumplings from scratch. And honestly, my…
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We have 3 lemon trees in our yard. Once the trees become abundantly full, I get out my basket and pick the lemons. My family knows what it means when they see me with my little basket picking lemons…I’m making lemon bars – perfect lemon bars. its one treat that is everybody’s favorite. In fact, my…
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She’s always been there for me Just talking to her can make me happy She tells me of the hard times she’s been through In hopes that I won’t go through them too She’s an independent woman of stature and grace She has beautiful eyes and a lovely face An audacious strength from deep inside…
Keep Readingwhole roasted cauliflower with almond aioli + salsa verde
Yeah, yeah, I know, its not one of my best food shots and based on the photo, it does look like something that one would serve on Halloween. My attempt of being creative with a fork, resulted in a horror shot. But with that being said, this oozing brain is one of the best cauliflower dishes…
Keep ReadingThe sunset restaurant malibu’s arugula + pesto flatbread
When we dine together, we don’t order our own entrée, instead we order an array of appetizers, salads, and entrees, which we share. Oh yeah, sometimes dessert too. These are the best girlfriends to go out and eat with. It’s more fun to taste a little of everything, rather than eat a lot of one…
Keep Readingstrawberry power salad + raspberry-poppy seed vinaigrette
Large signs with a strawberry signal that a truck is parked along Pacific Coast Highway, filled with farm fresh strawberries for sale. This truck has the sweetest, biggest, and juiciest strawberries around. I purchased a five-pound box full of strawberries and just knew that I had to make one of my most favorite salads, strawberry…
Keep Readingslow cooker loaded baked potato soup [organic]
There is nothing better than skiing that final slope of the day, down to a warm and satisfying bowl of soup that was effortlessly made. This delicious and organic slow cooker loaded baked potato soup will warm you up from the inside out. During the winter season, we go skiing a lot. Mostly to Mammoth…
Keep Readingbay leaf-scented yogurt cake + a giveaway
It is a Lifestyle book with 100 fresh recipes using fresh, local and organic ingredients, inspiring pictures, and stories from one of the most beautiful places in the world: Malibu, California. I’m giving away one copy of her book – leave a comment below (with your email, please) to enter and I will randomly select a…
Keep Readinggeoffrey’s malibu ahi tuna tartar
Up the winding scenic coastline of Pacific Coast Highway, on a cliff, sits Malibu’s most popular restaurant, Geoffrey’s. Not only is Geoffrey’s known for their great tasting food, such as baked brie, wygu beef, seafood paella, and Main lobster cobb salad, but the breathtaking view of the vast blue Pacific ocean makes this place a…
Keep Readingwinter caprese
My hubby said, “This winter caprese is one of the best things you have ever made”. “It is restaurant quality!” He says that often, but this time…I agree. Today in Malibu, it is raining. We are lounging in the house, which doesn’t happen often. Deciding to make a little appetizer with ingredients already on hand,…
Keep Readingcauliflower + chickpea curry
My mother moved my sister and me with her from Fort Worth, Texas to Mar Vista, California. Being a newly single parent, my mother began working long hours to support us. During this time, an Indo-Fijian (Fijians whose ancestors came from India) woman named Madhu, would babysit us at her home. After school, we would go…
Keep Readingfennel + carrot soup
So far this winter, I’ve been cooking up a lot of soup. During the hotter months I’m a “juicer” but during colder months I’m finding that I’m a “souper” (is that even a word?). When cooked with whole organic ingredients, soup can be filled with nutrients. Not only does soup warm you up, but it…
Keep Readingchilled avocado soup shooters + crab
Several months ago, I received a package in the mail. Not out of the ordinary, since I order on-line all the time –mostly cookbooks to suffice my cookbook addiction. Anyway, I opened it and here was this beautiful Taste of Home 2014 Holiday & Celebrations cookbook. The only problem was… I didn’t order this cookbook….
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