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Salmon w/ puttanesca and sauteed bella mushroom, hericote verts and pine nuts.

A medley of 5 different mushrooms with baby bok choy stir fry over Japanese buckwheat noodles. (SEE RECIPE)

My very first chocolate souffle, and it didn't fall. (Seriously, it's a dessert, not a bomb.)

Quorn "chicken" stir fry. Hot and spicy, just the way I like it!

Quorn "chicken", butternut squash, red potato and edamame curry over brown jasmine rice.

Vegetarian pad thai.

Tomato and saffron shellfish stew.

Crab cocktail and mango salsa with parmesean chips.

Mediterranean- inspired eggwhite and potato omelette.

Chili-garlic sauce and lite soy sauce marinated tofu with wild rice medley and shiitake and gai lan stir fry.

Diced tomatoes, garlic, chick peas, black beans, capers, red onion, grated carrots, bella mushrooms, and Quorn "chicken" over 100% whole wheat rotini pasta.

Curry.

The salmon was marinated and later topped with a reserved marimade of rice vinegar, lite teriyaki, agave nectar, fresh ginger, fresh OJ juice and fruit, shallots and garlic.

A variation on the Quorn "chicken" stir fry.

A particularly fave snack, wakame salad with smoked salmon and cavier on water crackers.

A few fabulous chocolates from Dean&Deluca. The butterfly had this ethereal lavender infusion.

Yes, I know. I eat a lot of salmon. Why? Because I love it and it's super good for you.

Eggwhite omelette mixed with Sriracha hot sauce and stuffed with garlic, grape tomatoes, baby spinach, bella mushrooms and red onion with mixed berries and water.

Shellfish that was cooked with a "Mexican" butternut squash and white hominy stew.

Salmon on wilted baby greens with a mango/avocado/red nion/red pepper/ jalepeno chili relish.

Cedar plank-grilled salmon with sauted asparagus and pine nuts over brown jasmine rice.

Steamed veggies and tofu with Sriracha hot sauce.

Steamed veggies and prawns with Sriracha hot sauce.

My Ibanez hot pink flying V.

My first guitar, a Fender Squire.

One of my first food loves: High-quality chocolate (the darker the better), not that Hershey, et al crap.

Demonstrating a very effective takedown technique to a few of the lower sashes. Just put your boobs in the guy's face and he'll do anything you say. ;-P J/K!

After my first half marathon in Charlotte, NC.

My first marathon in Charlotte. NC. It was sooooooooo cold -- in the teens with a windchill in the single digits!

Gena Noir.

Me, wearing a Smokey the Bear hat to amuse my nieces and nephew.

Rock climbing at Crowder's Mtn. in NC.

My fabulous boyfriend and me.

Watercolor, Prismacolor pencil and black ink. 32" x 40".

Medium: Gouache, 9" x 14".

Staedtler pencil study of and apple and its reflection in a mirror. 20" x 16".

Prismacolor pencil and black ink.

I did this one when I was 15. Medium: watercolor, 28" x 22".

Sketch inspiration for the first piece of art shown here.

Prismacolor pencil, black ink, chracoal. Unfinished.

Charcoal still life study.

My depiction of the Venus of Willendorf. Primsacolor pencil, 12" x 18".

Dandy. (He's such a lover boy.)

Kody,being his usual sweet self.

Dandy at the dog park.

Kody chewing on a new birthday toy. It was Dandy's birthday but they both got a toy. (A recent study has shown that dogs do indeed understand the concept of fairness.)

Dandy, doing his "this always get me a bellyrub" pose. And he's right, it always works.

Kody chewing on a Christmas present.

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San Jose, CA (United States)
Joined January 08, 2009
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About me

I recently moved to San Jose, CA from Charlotte, NC and I absolutely love it -- particularly trying out all the wonderfully diverse cuisine available in the South Bay Area. Don't get me wrong, Charlotte has some fabulous restaurants (I highly recommend Upstream, Cuisine Malaya, Blue, and Providence Cafe for starters). However, it lacks somewhat in ethnic variety, certainly nothing like what's available here. Moreover, since I love few things more than sampling a food I've never had before, you can imagine I am in heaven! In fact I've been accused -- and rightly so -- of obtaining greater pleasure when traveling from my dining experiences than sightseeing.

Food preferences:

I'll try nearly anything at least once, as long as it meets a few crucial requirements. I draw the line at anything still alive or that was "young" when it was dispatched (i.e. veal or balut); I'll eat eggs only so long as they are unfertilized. I changed my meat preference about three years ago not so much for health reasons as for ethical and political reason, so now I no longer eat meat other than fish and shellfish. So I also draw the line at animals I feel were treated inhumanely (such as foi gras, which is indeed delicious but simply not right in how it is achieved IMO).

I love to experience new things and I've enjoyed tasting nearly everything I've ever tried, with the exception of raw sea urchin and fermented soybeans. And I love hot and spicy flavors and sensations. Some of my faves are French, seafood, anything Asian (especially sushi and other Japanese foods, Indian, Hong Kong style Chinese, and dim sum), mushrooms, and always any contemporary and innovative dishes of any influence. I also place a high value on food that is artfully presented as I feel the best meal are those which delight all the senses, not just taste.

A little more of the general information about me:

I'm an artist, writer, poet, and musician. I have a near-photographic memory with a 98% successful recall rate. I adore all forms of fantasy, sci-fi, comics, graphic novels, and manga. I'm also a huge science nonfiction enthusiast, in particular physics and chemistry. I have the great pleasure and honor to be the adoptive mom to two fabulous doggy fur babies named Dandy and Kody (whose unconditional love truly knows no bounds). I'm also a Buddhist who just happens to love watching wacky kids' shows, innovative sitcoms, foreign films, PBS, TLC, NatGeo, Discovery Channel, and the BBC; listening regularly to NPR (Wait, Wait... Don’t Tell Me!); music spanning from opera, metal, jazz, indie, punk, alternative and nearly everything else in between. I love to cook and eat great food with an emphasis on living a healthy lifestyle. And last yet certainly not least, I am loved and admired by the most incredible man in the entire universe, my boyfriend.

Check out my pics for examples of the meals I've cooked since got a digital camera and have been able to upload them to my pc. (I don't have a scanner so no pics of pre-digital meals... yet.) I'll post recipes for each of them as time permits. Oh, and you can also see more pics about other stuff related to me (i.e. my dogs, my art, some fave activities, etc.). Enjoy.

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