You know you have a good dish when your girlfriends say, “yeah bring that one thing over that you made last month.” Last year it was the Lentil Bruschetta. I took it everywhere. I think this salad will be the new bring-to-every-get-together dish. This is the recipe that our neighborhood girlfriends always ask our friend…
I was desperate. I needed a crock pot recipe that was quick…well, not quick, but I could prepare it within 10 minutes or less, I could run the boys to swim class, and then come home and everything would be ready to go. Well, I found the perfect recipe in my new cookbook, Crock Pot:…
My sweet mom bought me the fabulous Cooking Light: The Essential Dinner Tonight Cookbook (2009) for Christmas and she scribed inside the cover, “May this make your Tasty Tuesdays even tastier!” Isn’t that the sweetest thing, ever? Ahh, I love my mom. This book does not disappoint, it has great pictures (because that’s how I…
You know those nights when you’re just getting home, everyone’s hungry and you don’t know what to prepare? This is a great meal that can be thrown together in 20 minutes and you can even get your kids to eat it. This is great for a vegetarian family, but if you are carnivores like us,…
I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for new, easy and tasty ways to prepare chicken breasts for dinner. I get in a chicken rut, often preparing the same few favorites over and over again. So I started to flip through one of my tried and true cookbooks, Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast…
This morning I pulled out one of my favorite fuzzy sweaters. While I don’t necessarily think it’s an angora sweater, it certainly is reminiscent of that warm, cuddly quality. Donning this sweater feels like a declaration of fall and puts such a contented smile on my face. This week I’ll be setting up our Halloween…
I primarily learned how to cook when I lived with my GBF in San Francisco. He introduced me to a great many things. Some of which will never be mentioned on my blog. But maybe on a drunken GNO. Now his sister would say that I should give her some credit because one cookbook in…
Sometimes I know we can get in a chicken dinner rut, but here’s a new one for the repertoire. I love the mix of flavors in this dish and the boys love it because it has dried apricots in it. So it’s sweet and flavorful. Typically, I serve this dish with a side of broccoli…
This is by far one of my most favorite easy meals. This is in regular rotation and the kids, for the most part love it (okay, they pick out the asparagus, but I make them eat a few bites). This recipe is from the book, Joie Warner’s No-Cook Pasta Sauces. Besides living with my GBF…
Ok so I am on a comfort/fall food binge. I think you can see that already. Lola comes over every Wednesday and we watch So You Think You Can Dance (which I love) and I cook a fabulous dinner (I’d like to think so or at least most of the time). This week we had…
