Eleanor Hoh

NOVEMBER EVENTS

November 4, 2014 By Eleanor Hoh 1 Comment

Wednesday, November 5, 9pm
ZONIN’S TV DEBUT ON COOKING CHANNEL!
My wine sponsor, Casa Vinicola Zonin’s TV debut “From Italy with Love” airs on Cooking Channel, TOMORROW, Wed. Nov 5, 9:30PM ET/8:30pm Central! 3 Miami Watching Parties with complimentary Aperitivo, bubbly Zonin Prosecco and velvety Castello d’Albola Chianti Classico will be served! The very good looking Francesco Zonin makes it easy to watch, ha!

Show Description:
“From Italy with Love” is a lifestyle contest show where three Americans are immersed in the Italian culture… After spending a week learning how to communicate, dress, live, cook and enjoy wine like an Italian, they must demonstrate that real Italian cuisine is truly simple, authentic, cost effective and most importantly nutritional.

Three judges: Francesco Zonin, a Cooking Channel celebrity – Kelsey Nixon, and Italian TV chef celebrity Fabrizio Nonis, judge the contestants on specific guidelines and categories. The three contestants are Lynn Borges, Katie Meyers, and Lesroy Louard. At the end of the show, the judges choose the true Italian!
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Saturday, November 8, 12-3pm
COOK LIKE A WOK STAR CLASS
ALNO
3650 North Miami Avenue, Design District, FL 33127
$85 pp with 3 dishes paired with wines and Fiji Water
What if you can become a Wok Star in 3 hours? You can and hundreds have! Easy, Healthy and Fast one-dish dinners made in a wok, perfect for busy lifestyles and adaptable to any diet! No-recipes or measuring needed, it’s liberating and oh so simple!
Sign up and be an instant Wok Star NOW!

Sunday, November 9
BOOK GIVEAWAYS FOR MIAMI BOOK FAIR
Don’t miss my blog post for these 3 book Giveaways! Fabio Viviani’s, Fabio’s American Home Kitchen and Linda Gassenheimer’s 2 books: No-Fuss Diabetes Desserts and Simply Smoothies. And 2 more Sunday, November 16, see below. Both Giveaways will last for duration of the Book Fair and winners will be announced Monday, November 24.

Thursday, November 13, 6-8pm
KREATING KOMBUCHA, FERMENTATION WORKSHOP with Tom Wilfong
Miami Beach Botanical Garden
$10 members, $15 non members
Yup, I ‘met’ Tom on Instagram and found out he’s teaching a basic fermentation workshop! So mad I’ll be on a cruise and will miss this! I freakin’ LOVE pickles especially kimchi and got my first taste of Kombucha on my recent visit with my sister in Asheville.
Get the details and sign up NOW!

Saturday, November 15, 10am-1pm
FOOD NETWORK STAR CASTING

Do you have a captivating personality and believe you’re at the top of the culinary game? They are searching for those with a creative and unique food perspective. Do you have what it takes to host your own show on Food Network, here’s your chance!
Apply online here.

Friday, November 21
BOOK GIVEAWAYS FOR MIAMI BOOK FAIR

Watch out for my blog for these two fabulous book giveaways: Lee Schrager with Adeena Sussman’s Fried and True and Mango by Jen Karetnick. Winners of both book giveaways will be announced Monday, November 24.

Friday, November 21
12:45-3pm
Beauty Foods Luncheon and Ayurvedic Skin Care Workshop
Palms Hotel & Spa
Finally, I get to attend a Conscious Bite Out event, I can’t wait to learn how to make healthy skin care products cause I have such sensitive skin and I can’t stand all that unnecessary stuff in products. And I love Chef Julie Frans cooking, so beautiful, refreshing and balanced flavors, hope to see you there!
Sign up here.

Sunday, November 16-23
MIAMI BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL
Click here for complete details.
Friday, November 21-23
STREET FAIR
Delightful to browse through the Fair, I always find something unique and interesting.
Click here for complete Schedule of Events!

Highlights include…
Sat. Nov.22, 12pm Talk:
Fabio Viviani, famous Top Chef contestant who will be talking with his cute Italian accent and Ana Sofia Pelaez on The Cuban Table: A Celebration of Food, Flavors, and History.

Sun. Nov.23,
1:00 p.m. Talk:
Dana Cowin on Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen: Learning to Cook with 65 Great Chefs and Over 100 Delicious Recipes, Gabrielle Hamilton on Prune, and Lee Schrager on Fried & True: More than 50 Recipes for America’s Best Fried Chicken and Sides
1:30 p.m. Talk:
Heather McPherson on Good Catch: Recipes and Stories Celebrating the Best of Florida’s Waters, Jen Karetnick on Mango, and Mark DeNote on The Great Florida Craft Beer Guide
2pm Cooking Demo
Fabio Viviani at Miami Culinary Institute, good luck getting in here.
2:30pm Talk:
Linda Gassenheimer on No-Fuss Diabetes Desserts and Simply Smoothies and Ellen Jaffe Jones on Paleo Vegan

Sunday, November 23, 11am-4pm
Botanical Bazaar
Miami Beach Botanical Gardens
The Botanical Bazaar is a once-a-year artisan fair held at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden to celebrate our beautiful southern autumn right before Thanksgiving. The Bazaar features local vendors selling labors of love perfect for early holiday shopping, including jewelry, plants, hand designed clothing, art, natural makeup and beauty products, candles, cards and much more. This year there are some new and funky booths including the Garden’s “Gems and Junque” rummage tent and a make-your-own kokedama moss garden activity. Music will be provided by carolers, with a special performance by the Florida Grand Opera! At 1pm join “The Beauty of Food” workshop.
Click here more details!

Thursday, November 27, 10-4pm (Thanksgiving day)
FREE & open to the public
Loy Krathong / Thai Food Festival
Wat Buddharangsri (Buddhist Temple)
The highlight of this year’s festival beside the Loy Krathong ceremony, live Thai and American music, mini Thai concert show, Thai folk & classical dances and also authentic Thai cuisine & desserts sponsored by members of the temple and local Thai restaurants in the area.
Click here for schedule!

Cast Iron Wok Is Key To Success!

November 1, 2014 By Eleanor Hoh 1 Comment

I love weekends when hubby is the Wok Star and his wok of choice is my cast iron wok! He refuses to use anything else after his experience with a friend’s flat bottom carbon steel wok on their residential gas stove during a hurricane. He ended up literally throwing his hands in the air and turning it over to me!

Breakfast is usually a toss between fried egg or an omelet filled with goodies. Lately, the latter because he claims you need bread to sop up the squishy yolk. Since we both cut back eating starchy carbs like bread, potatoes, rice, I didn’t have any bread in the house. My solution? I suggested laying his fried egg on top of my version of Huevos Rancheros and let the yolks ooze with the lentils, umm!
It’s a joint effort in the kitchen in the weekends. Hubby likes to be the wok master (as most guys do!) and today he fried 3 eggs all in one go with coconut oil, smells amazing! So, boo to all the naysayers who poo pooed when I said you can fry more than one egg in a wok! We’ve done four eggs. He loves this cast iron wok because when the eggs are ready, they come away easily from the wok, no sticking, no mess, no frustrations. The yolks are intact and always a success.

I usually make the sides to go with his omelet or fried egg. My version of Huevos Rancheros with lentils (ready cooked) slathered with a spicy Cajun spice seasoning, chopped tomatoes and scallions and reheated. You can make loads of variations with different veggies to add to the lentils. A little spinach salad with chopped jicama, chayote and mini sweet peppers tossed with my homemade vinaigrette was a nice crunchy contrast to the soft lentils.
I think I’ve converted him, yay cause I heard him murmuring ‘umm’ quite a few times. It just shows, if you can make it tasty, the perception you need bread to sop up the yolk can be dashed.
If you want your partner to make you breakfast, give them the right tools so they’ll be confident, have fun and succeed in cooking and that my friend is a cast iron wok and a gas stove setup, enough said!

Vegans: Book Giveaway to celebrate Miami SEED Food and Wine Festival

October 17, 2014 By Eleanor Hoh 4 Comments

I am not vegan but I have two friends, Ellen Kanner and Pamela Wasabi who are and I’m here to sing their praises! They are perfect examples of vegans who are passionate about what they do!
AND
1) I’m giving away Ellen’s vegan cookbook to celebrate the first ever plantbased living, Seed Food and Wine Festival presented by Whole Foods with lots of celebrities including many vegan, raw advocates like Alicia Silverstone, Brendan Brazier, John Salley and loads more.
2) Get discount code to this Sat. Oct.18’s all day extravaganza when you subscribe to my free newsletter in right side bar! I will be sending out newsletter tonight, so do it NOW and see you there!

See festival details below. I’ve included some photos below from last night’s amazing VIP party to give you a sneak peek what to expect for Saturday’s festival.

About Ellen Kanner…(extract from Seed’s talent bio)
Ellen Kanner is the author of Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith and What to Eat for Dinner, VegNews’ 2013 Book of the Year, PETA’s debut Book of the Month Club pick, Huffington Post’s Meatless Monday blogger, syndicated columnist Edgy Veggie which appears in Miami Herald, and vegan writer for numerous publications. She runs the personal food consulting service Veg Therapy. An ardent advocate for sustainable, accessible food, Ellen serves on Miami boards of Slow Food and Common Threads. Find out more about Ellen here.
So many things in Ellen’s book reflect my philosophy of cooking with what you have and my visual roadmap approach to cooking! I love your humor and laid back attitude towards vegan cooking. I especially liked, “Sometimes while you’re following a recipe on the road to dinner, you find side paths, back roads that beckon and lead you to new places. Feel free to try a different vegetable, another herb…Go, explore. Strike out on your own. Honor yourself and your own taste. Trust your gut.” Amen.
Follow her on twitter @edgyveggie1 and instagram @ellenkanner
READY FOR BOOK GIVEAWAY?
So, I’m giving away Ellen Kanner’s vegan cookbook! Here you go…
1) leave a comment below why you became vegan
2) then email me (wokstar at eleanorhoh dot com) so I have your email if you win!
3) a random winner will be picked and announced in comment below.
4) I will contact winner via email. Respond ASAP with your mailing address, otherwise I will pick the next winner.
5) all spam will be deleted and blocked, please don’t spoil it for others.
Eligibility: Only for United States residents.
Closing date: Sunday, October 17 at 10pm ET. Check back here for winner!
If you don’t win, you can still purchase here.

About Pamela Wasabi…(extract from Seed’s talent bio)
Pamela Wasabi is a certified Health Coach by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and a Vegan, Raw and Dessert Food Artist as well as a cooking instructor. You can find her across South Florida sharing her craft as pastry chef at Choices Café locations across Miami and Oolite Kitchen and Bar on South Beach. Her waffles and raw cheesecake are a favorite.
Pamela is one hell of a go getter! But most importantly using her knowledge to stabilize her thyroid problem because she didn’t want to be dependent on medication with astonishing results! Her passion for sharing her knowledge with others is what I love about her. Find out more about Pamela here.
Follow her on twitter and instagram @pamelawasabi for delicious bites.
For Pamela Wasabi’s ebook, unfortunately, we’re not able to do a giveaway but here’s link to her Violet Element Dessert and Breakfast Recipe Book.

Seed Food & Wine Festival presented by Whole Foods
plantbased living
This Saturday, October 18
11am to 7pm
Midtown Miami Tents
110 NE 36th Street | Miami, FL 33137
29th Street and 1st Avenue,
Midtown Miami
General Admission $40 / $55 at the door
VIP Admission (Doors open at 10am for VIP’s) $65 / $85 at the door
includes Savor VIP lounge access and premiere seating at semiars and demos)
Buy your tickets now!
With your paid admission…
Festival Day will feature FREE wine and craft beer tastings,
FREE food sampling from all our participants,
lifestyle products, green living, crafts, a farmer’s market,
the Savor VIP lounge,
FREE Strongbow Beer Garden and
the 22 Day Nutrition music stage,
plus two tents featuring a variety of seminars and cooking and gardening demos all for FREE
Seminars and Chef Demos by:
Alicia Silverstone, Brendan Brazier, John Salley, Rich Landau, Kate Jacoby, Maranda Pleasant, Mark Reinfeld, Jennifer Grace, Emily Nolan, Leslie Bosson, Dr. Etti, Alina Z, Loren Pulitzer, Pamela Wasabi, Ellen Kanner, Gabriele Marewski, Jeffrey Brana, Matt Cooper, Laura Krulak.
Visit Seed Food and Wine for more info.
Please follow Seed Food & Wine Festival for updates.
Check out handy parking and schedule of presentations here.
use #seedfw on twitter and instagram
Some scenes from last night’s superb VIP cocktails and Chef Tastings, auction items at Wynwood Walls, Miami…Proceeds from the event benefit Farm Sanctuary and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).

Eleanor Hoh

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