Slow Cooked Italian Sausage and Peppers Rotini

By demand, I will put this recipe up so people can try it themselves. To be honest, it's not my recipe. I bought a little booklet a couple of years ago called "Slow Cooker - come home to comfort" by Pillsbury. It's a collection of 42 quick meals and I haven't really tried many of the recipes from it. The few I did make before, I took the liberty to change the proportions a little and it didn't turn out as great as I thought it would... so it's been sitting on the shelves for a loooong time. This time I decided to give it another go with a simpler recipe and tried to stay as faithfully to the proportions as possible with given my nature... and it turned out to be a success! :D I'm very excited. It was also very quick, very simple, not many ingredients and all can be found with reasonable price. Not to mention one pot will probably last you all week if you're dining solo. So without further blabbing, here is the recipe:

http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/slow-cooker-italian-sausages-and-peppers-with-rotini/c0e2ac85-a7d3-4992-917a-8a5a3d6251ce/

It can be easily changed to be vegetarian or vegan by removing the sausage or replacing with some veggie substitute to add flavor.

Now go try it yourself! And let me know how it turned out, post some pictures and share your experiences.

Summer 2010 - Cuban Cuisine in Key West

To continue with backlogging my summer foodventures, I have to admit, taking a cruise is probably one of the best and easiest ways to experience some wonderful food while doing absolutely no work (and come back several pounds heavier). Over the summer, I took a short 4-night cruise to the Bahamas. Best decision ever! Except maybe it could be longer, but who has that kind of money? Not me. I cruised Royal Caribbean because I've gone on their weekend Mexico cruise before and I remembered the food was absolutely

Summer 2010 - Mom's food

Sooooo much backlogging!!!!! I will have you know that, yes, I'm still documenting my foodventures (albeit not as well or as much), and yes, I'm still alive, if only barely. I think I will be more review and documentation focused rather than recipe focus, unless otherwise requested by imaginary readers. Anyway, over the summer, I took some pictures of the food my mom made, which I will just throw it all here. I should've taken more because now I don't remember everything she made, so I can't imitate them when I crave home food... but don't know which ones. My life is so confusing. Alright, "stop talking, show me the pictures!" I know, I know. Here they are.

Little Shanghai Restaurant - San Mateo

So I'm terrible at updating this blog, although I've had quite some food adventures this summer with my vacations and all and taken a number of pictures. I'll try to get them up as soon as possible since school has started and I doubt I'll have much time to cook, post recipes, and try new places to review. Now is as good of a time as ever to wade through the loads of backlogs, even though I'm suppose to be paying attention to my lecture right now.

Over the summer, while I was in SF Bay Area visiting my mom and my grandmother, who came over to US for the summer, we went to a Shanghai restaurant in San Mateo. It's one of my mom's favorite restaurant, and understandably so, because it's one of the more authentic Chinese, particularly Shanghainess food we've found. They have weekend morning dim sum (Shanghai style), and has fairly extensive menu, of course, you'll know what to order, but isn't that the case with most ethnic cuisine?