• food,  Los Angeles,  San Diego

    Kitchens bring families together! Get creative with your Tahini this holiday season.

    Delicious, Squeezable, and Kid Friendly! Need I say more? What’s your favorite thing about Mighty Seasame Co.’s organic Tahini?  Their organic Tahini is made with just one ingredient: roasted hulled organic sesame seeds – making this a vegan favorite! 100% natural, 100% smooth, and 100% drizzle-worthy. Tahini is rich in nutrients and is a great source of protein? Here’s to living a healthy lifestyle and making healthier food choices.

    Mighty Sesame Tahini is committed to provide high quality, sustainable products. For over 30 years Mighty Sesame has strived to bring their consumers the best tahini based products. Mighty Sesame constantly aims to innovate the process to benefit your superfoods sesame experience.

    Mighty Sesame sources its raw materials, sesame seeds, from the most reputable growing region in the world Ethiopia. They trade sustainably with produce to ensure fair wages for the farmers. Mighty Sesame use a patented process for refining and manufacturing sesame into a delicious, shelf stable, ready-to-use range of condiments and spreads.


    Tahini Shortbread Holiday Cookies

    Ingredients

    1-1/2 sticks butter, room temperature

    3/4 C. powdered sugar

    1 C. Mighty Sesame Tahini

    2 tsp. kosher salt

    2 C. flour

    Toasted sesame seeds

    Sprinkles of your choice, optional

    Parchment paper

    Directions

    1. In a medium bowl beat butter, sugar and tahini for 3-4 minutes until creamy. Add salt and flour and beat on low speed until combined, scraping bowl from time to time.
    2. Mix sesame seeds and colored sprinkles together and pour them out on a small baking sheet or flat dish.
    3. Carefully knead the dough and shape into two tubes of equal size. Carefully roll each dough onto sesame seeds until fully covered.
    4. Roll each dough tube with parchment paper, twisting the ends and refrigerate for 2 hours or longer.
    5. Pre-heat your oven to 350F and remove dough from refrigerator. Cut into 1/4-inch coins and place onto baking sheet.

    By George Duran

    Mighty Sesame Tahini

    Ingredients

    5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

    30 oz black beans (2 15-oz cans)

    1/3 cup pourable sesame tahini

    2 limes juiced

    1 dry chile guajillo

    1 dry chile ancho

    1/2 bunch cilantro

    Directions

    1. First, toast the chiles. To do this, place them in the middle of a 8×8 square of aluminum foil. Fold the sides up to enclose the chiles in a package so that all the odor stays inside the package. Place the package directly on your oven rack. Bake at 400 for 10 minutes until the chiles have blackened slightly.
    2. Next, open the cans and drain the black beans. Place them in the blender.
    3. Add the lime, tahini, olive oil and salt, cilantro and toasted chiles.
    4. Blend until smooth and creamy.
    5. Top with optional garnishes.

    Created by: Better Food Guru, Sara Tercero

    Tahini Coffee Cake

    Ingredients

    ½ vegetable oil

    ¾ cup honey

    ¾ cup tahini

    1 ½ t baking powder

    1 ½ t nutmeg

    2 cups AP flour, sifted

    ½ cup sesame seeds

    1 cup warm water

    1 T butter, room temperature

    Directions

    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 9×13 cake pan with butter.
    2. In a bowl, combine oil, honey, tahini and water. Mix well.
    3. Slowly add flour, baking powder and sesame seeds. Mix well with electric mixer on low speed to incorporate all ingredients.
    4. Pour into greased cake pan. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until a took pick comes out clean when coffee cake is pierced.
    5. Remove from oven and let cool for 15-20 minutes.
    6. Slice and serve.
    7. Enjoy!
  • Beauty,  Fashion,  food,  Gift Guide,  San Diego,  WorldWide

    Be My Valentine at This February 14th

    First thing when I wake up, wait a bit, I need to do a special makeup.

    I used the GEN NUDE Eyeshadow Palette from the NEW bareMinerals Beauty of Nature Collection, as well as their GEN NUDE mineral-rich long-wearing blush for my Valentine’s Day makeup!

    A sweet nice breakfast is necessary for a sweet day. I have the home-made banana muffin with Tahini for the dip, also adding some fruits with coconut whipped cream. This tahini is one of my favorite thing I can add to everything – for salad, pastries, or even my sandwiches. It is the Mighty Sesame Tahini Dressings in squeezable bottles.

    Adding a Beetology drink is also a good idea to boost your nutrition and energy!

    I wear a warm long knit dress with a red bag for this special day! Being pretty, as the same time keeping warm, this is how smart we are! Lucy Paris has a lot of stylish fashion choices for you for any your special event. The cute red bag is from Urban Originals, I like it because it is very comfortable to wear, also you can have all your needs in this small-look bag no problem.

    A morning walk along the cove, I love the breathe and sunshine!

    For lunch, I prepare this wild Alaskan salmon at home, with my cat as my date, why not? I enjoy his company.

    Sitka Salmon Shares delivers premium, sustainable, wild Alaskan seafood from the fishermen directly to members’ doorsteps! Sitka Salmon Shares is built around a humble collective of committed fishermen that put quality first, handling fish one at a time, with respect and care. It’s their livelihood, afterall, and many of their fishermen have been using these highly selective, small-batch fishing methods for generations. Read on to know your fishermen—from how they got started, why they love life on the open water and why they are part of Sitka Salmon Shares. They also have a lot of recipes on their website!

    Valentine’s Day afternoon, I would love to share my time with my bestie – Galentine at Valentine’s Day. I love this double happiness. We went to SOMI SOMI, a super cute yummy tayaki & soft serve ice cream store. What I wear is from Brooklyn Cloth, which is a leader in on-trend apparel that enables their customers to express individuality. They pull inspiration from across the globe, and in their backyard of New York City, to develop their bold collections. Brooklyn Cloth stands out for its unique fabrics, eye-catching graphics, and must-have silhouettes. They observe trends that define today’s market to bring fresh, expressive collections to the table.

    Valentine’s celebration is always to be official at night. I chose to have cakes with Ryan at one of my favorite dessert spots in San Diego – Extraordinary Desserts.

    See these beautiful cakes, I just can’t help myself to draw them on my paper!

    There is always something else sweet waiting for me at Valentine’s Day! It is MarieBelle’s signature Ganache chocolate, which comes from New York’s famous Soho District. It is the world-renowned, luxurious bean-to-bar chocolate company, MarieBelle Chocolates.

    Before sleep, I need to be relax, because I want to have a sweet dream to end this beautiful day. A hot bath helps. Don’t forget to drop a cute bath bomb into the bathtub. This beautiful crystal bath bomb is from Village Naturals Aromatherapy‘s bath and body collection.

    I can say it is a full successful Valentine’s Day for me. And now I need to say good night!