Queenkv’s Brainpickings

My Medill buddy Sara hanged out with us one weekend. She whipped up this tasty, hearty veggie dish that her mom made back in the day. I’m terrible with transcribing Spanish, but I do know it translates into Zucchini and Corn.
Cooking with Sara! from Kris Vera-Phillips on Vimeo.
I made the white rice with our [...]

One more serving of tasty home cooking, originally uploaded by queenkv.

A hearty breakfast before our road trip to Nor Cal. My Ninong’s chicken adobo, rice and a hardboiled egg.

It’s been 6 months+ since we moved back to Northern California.
I think we’ve synched up nicely with the rhythm of life in Sacramento and the Bay Area. Last month, we checked out the farm team for the Oakland A’s, the Sacramento River Cats.

Cheering on the River Cats!, originally uploaded by queenkv.

We scored [...]

I try to find new recipes to try out on my weekends. I’m thrilled with the huge kitchen space in our Vacaville home. There’s plenty of room to spread out my herbs, veggies, meat and cutting areas. Sometimes I have my PowerBook open to a tasty online recipe. When I’m prepping meals, sometimes I stare [...]

COVINA, CA — I’m up before dawn and browsing my Google Reader goodies. I enjoyed my quick weekend trip to So Cal. I ate too much good food and it was lovely to hang out with my family.
My nephew and niece are getting taller and sparkling with personality. My dad’s now a pro at [...]

originally uploaded by queenkv.

We’re taking off on another roadtrip for the P-Day Weekend. We’re heading south on I-5 and visiting my family in beautiful So. Cal. Yeah! I miss my folks and I can’t wait to eat some yummy home cooking! I’m playing also with a mash-up of twitter and google maps: twittervision. In theory, [...]

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We made a yummy dinner for Valentine’s Day. Mark cooked this yummy linguini with clams in a white wine sauce. I did salmon wrapped with Italian ham slices. It was fun to cook together. We ended dinner with a dance set to the music rolling for the end credits of Sixteen Candles.

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Here’s our beautiful tree, all decked out for the holidays! Right now, we’re cooking our Christmas dinner: Ham, pineapples, chorizo, pasta and good times. Then I head off to work. Sigh. My vampire schedule is painful but I’m getting used to it. I end up sleeping by day and then I spend [...]

OK — this is a new thing I’m trying out. I kicked started the daily blog feature on my del.icio.us account. That means all the links I’ve bookmarked for the day will be posted around 10:00 PM, nightly. I thought it was kinda neat to have that coincide with my newscast. Basically, these are links [...]

Another round of hot Kansas weather had me craving ceviche. It’s so easy to make and it tastes refreshing, as a meal or a snack. As long as you have the patience to wait for it “cook” in the fridge, I think it’s worth the wait.

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Here are the fixings for ceviche - [...]