Are you someone who just loves to cook, bake and spend lots of time in the kitchen coming up with your own great recipe ideas? For many amateur chefs, seeing the smiles of their friends and family members when they dig into a new meal or dessert is reward enough for the toiling and work that they do over the stove. But did you know that you can also find success and reward by entering your concoctions into one of the many recipe contests that can be found online? It's true, and we're going to give you a few tips on how to enter your creations into the perfect recipe contest as quickly as you can cook them! It really doesn't matter what kind of cooking you're best at, since there are recipe contests for pretty much every kind of food out there. Whether you are good at desserts, traditional ... [more..]

Vietnamese Chinese Lunch for $5.00! There are literally hundreds of restaurants in the City – Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, vegetarian — that serve lunches, usually with soup and an entree over rice, for under $5. Chinese restaurants include tea and, often, fruit.My favorite block in San Diego is Convoy, between Balboa and Clairemont Mesa, where there are a number of chinese, vietnamese, korean, and japanese restaurants with such lunches. My favorite among them is Roll Fresh, which has been there for over a year, and which specializes in seafood. The quality of the food is high, and has been consistently so over many years of existence. You can try other asian restaurants on the block. Look them over, check their menus, and choose one that you like. Some appear more attractive than others. Most are good, and have been there for years. ... [more..]

There was a time when Japanese food was considered too exotic for the mainstream palate. This has become a thing of the past, though, because now you can find sushi bars and Japanese restaurants in every major city around the world, including in the United States. People have come to love Japanese food such as nigiri sushi, makimono sushi, sashimi and tempura even in Tampa FL. People who are not very familiar with Japanese food may find it strange to try sushi and sashimi at once. They will surely love tempura, though. Tempura is most often made of various types of seafood and vegetables that are coated with a special batter and fried to an airy crispness. Seafood used are usually prawns, shrimps, fish fillet, squid, scallops and crabmeat while the vegetables most commonly used are sweet potato, eggplant, bell pepper, yam, okra, green beans, carrots, mushrooms and squash. The ... [more..]