Cranberry Grilled Cheese Sandwich

 

 

 

It was one of those days. It was the kind of day where I just want to have an endless supply of food from Panera Bread. Too bad for me, I won't be getting any Panera until summertime...unless my dad wants to get me a plane ticket just for that :)

I'm fairly content though, because I have recently discovered my new favorite bread from this cute little Japanese Bakery, Ichido. Mmmm, Cranberry Walnut bread. Hope you enjoy the recipe!

Spring Asparagus Risotto

Spring is coming!  So what is spring? Spring is:

• When new fashion trends emerge
• When people (like me) begin to realize that summer is around the corner and diets have to resume
• When you see new fruits and veggies in markets
• When high school seniors get senoiritis

To celebrate the 3 consecutive days of nice-for-Shanghai weather, I decided to make some asparagus risotto (with an optional addition of mushrooms).

Oh sun, I have missed you.

 This risotto is fresh, creamy, healthy and easy to make. Win-win situation. Also, it's a relatively easy dinner to make!

Sunshine Through Food - Quinoa Stuffed Tomatoes

Picture yourself out on a Greek beach. You've just come out the clear, blue water; your skin is glistening from the Mediterranean Sun, and you've got a huge buffet of food waiting for you. ohmygoodness yum. Now snap out of it. I wasn't making this up...when you take your first bite of these tomatoes, that's what you see and feel.

This is basically how this tomato came to be:

Feta: psssst, take me home

Grace: no! I dunno know what to do with you...

Obviously I gave in. So, the Feta sat in my fridge for a few days until a huge mass of ideas came to me. My favorite was this combination of tomatoes, Kalamata olives, quinoa, avocado, feta, and olive oil--very Mediterranean. Perhaps I was longing for summer flavours, or perhaps I was just tired of the same old weather.