Today is the last day to enter and win a copy of Baking Kids Love by Cindy Mushet and Sur La Table or win a copy of A Recipe for Life by the Doctor’s Dietitian by Susan Dopart.

We had an early Holiday Dinner with my parents and my sister’s families. A little traditional Thanksgiving food mixed in with some Lumpia, oh and there was a bowl of rice there too! Haha…

DinnerInDisguise: Gyros – I had fast food tonight. After a long day at work, dealing with family drama, I didn’t have the strength to cook. I ended up going to Daphne’s Greek Cafe.

Katie Lee is coming to Southern California and will be teaching 2 special classes at Sur La Table. Katie will be teaching a class called “The Comfort Table: Chrismukkah with Katie Lee” and will be held at the Newport Beach store on Dec. 11 and Los Angeles store on Dec. 13.

This week’s Foodie Friday features blogs with the word FOODIE in the title…

I’ve known since I was a child that I wasn’t much of a baker. Put me in front of burners and I will do just fine, but a set of ovens sends shivers down my spine. For some reason, baking and I never really did well together. There are a few exceptions…

This week’s Foodie Friday features some of my favorite TV and Cookbook personalities…

Stater Bros., in conjunction with its charitable arm Stater Bros. Charities, is launching an urgently needed campaign to help local families who are faced with hunger this Holiday Season.

Spaghetti with Meat Sauce – One of the simplest dishes in my repertoire…

Dinner In Disguise: What can be simpler and quicker than a couple of roasted chicken thighs with herb roasted baby potatoes?

Turning Kitchen Zeros Into Kitchen Heroes. Food Network is hosting a new Competition Series called Worst Cooks In America this upcoming January.

I love Turkey Tacos. I substitute ground turkey for ground beef and use a mixture of spices. Usually I will go out and buy one of those packets and add it to my browned turkey meat with onions and garlic.

Susan Dopart has created “A Recipe for Life”, a smart, easy to understand, concrete nutrition road map partnered with simple, delicious recipes designed to improve one’s health.

So want to win a copy of A Recipe for Life? Tell us what you do to keep a healthy lifestyle. Do you watch what you eat or do you focus more on exercise? How do you keep healthy in body and spirit…

Just 2 weeks left in our Cookbook Giveaway of Baking Kids Love by Cindy Mushet and Sur La Table. Don’t miss out on this great cookbook for you and your kids!

Farm Fresh To You is a new Community Supported Agriculture program here in Southern California. I joined them in Late September and wanted to see how the produce and service was before writing about my deliveries.

This week’s Foodie Friday features blogs here in Southern California…

Got home late again and I’m finding it hard to cook a meal this late. Tonight we have some fried rice with potstickers from Diho Siam in Mission Viejo.

I went to my sister’s family’s house for dinner. They had ordered pizza from Lamppost Pizza. My parents just landed and visiting from the Philippines. They wanted pizza.

NBC Today Show’s Meredith Viera dons a McDonald’s outfit and staffs the drive thru headset giving customers a hard time at the order booth!