Armida Cooks!

So I was home sick today (okay, not really sick, but with a slight case of the shingles and I must be quarantined from all babies and elder...

After four tries, I've finally come up with the perfect, flavorful and juicy turkey meatballs. Yes, you heard right: turkey. I believe ...

I had my first Pinkberry experience last week and I have to say I really liked their frozen yogurt. I especially liked all the exotic flavo...

Our tomato plants are producing so much fruit that I've ran out of ideas what to do with them. I am getting a little tired of tomato sa...

Next to flan, this is probably my second favorite custard. What's so great about this dessert is that there is no oven involved. Just a...

I realized that I need to start eating more protein because I have a little alien growing inside me that I need to feed. And if she plans o...

Well, this dish was just an experiment. It was OK, although I feel that there was something missing. Maybe some minced jalapenos or some ga...

I twittered the other day that I was in a cooking funk and my friend, who is a chef in training, suggested I go to the market and pick an ...

I have been in a cooking funk lately, and I think it has to do with me being preggers. I just had no motivation to cook. All I was craving ...

What do you do when you're invited to a dinner party a couple of hours before it starts and you don't have a dessert to bring? Brow...

Once you've mastered a basic risotto recipe, you can start making up your kind of risotto flavors, which is what I did with this shrimp...

My hubby got us The Encyclopedia of Country Living and it's a wonderful and useful book, even if you don't live out in the country....

I'm blaming my father-in-law, Jim, for my love of making sausage. I just find it really cool that I can make all sorts of sausages, use...

Ina Garten has done it again! This was everyone's favorite dish at my Mother's Day brunch and I, of course, got the recipe from Ina...

I have a suspicion that this baby I'm carrying is a vegetarian. Meats and some poultry makes me gag, and if I could, I would probably l...

I was all Ina'd out this Mother's Day. Not only did I host a brunch at Chateau Blaha, but I also made all the food...and three of m...

On Sunday, May 3rd, I began my wine making journey. Since my husband and I both dream of one day owning a winery and make our own wine, I fi...