Fun Food Facts: All about Nuts

More fun food facts: All About Nuts Nuts have a reputation for being unhealthy due to their fat and oil content, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Saturated fats, which are found in mass quantities in junk food, can lead to high cholesterol and heart problems. Nuts, on the other hand, contain unsaturated fats…

Fun Food Facts: The Spaniards were the first to discover the Tortilla

I don’t have my camera currently so I have not updated this food blog for that reason…. Food Facts are fun… The word “tortilla” originally comes from the Spanish word torta, which means “round cake”.[1] When Spanish explorers discovered an unleavened flatbread made by the Aztecs, they called it tortilla (little torta). 466 years of flour tortilla history in 2008…

Meridian Petite Syrah 2006 Limited Release

Excellent bottle of wine! One of my favorites right up there with the Malbec.    Friends of ours ran a half marathon up in Paseo Robles while they were there they picked us up a bottle of this fabulous wine. It is a Limited Release Petite Syrah 2006

Seared Ahi Tuna

This killer recipe came from Rachel’s Bites