Grilled Pizza
Featured Recipe: Grilled Pizza Featured Wine: Chianti, or if you’re feeling sassy: Champagne. A dab of flour on noses, oops! a little juice spilled. Cooking with kids, what a delightful mess and such...
View ArticleBBQ chicken (or turkey) pizza
Featured Recipe: BBQ Chicken & Greens Pizza Featured Pairing: Beer! As a mother of a light-speed growing boy, I have accepted the fact that pizza is going to be a key part of my life for the next...
View ArticleSpaghetti and Meatballs
Featured Recipe: Spaghetti & Meatballs Featured Pairing: Chianti (why mess with a classic?) There is nothing better than a big bowl of spaghetti and meatballs on a cold winter night, especially if...
View ArticleCurry in a Hurry
“Oh me, Oh my, What a lot of funny things go by!” says Dr. Seuss and me at the end of my day. What a weird one. Not bad, not good, just weird. A lot of funny things went by. Enough so that I wanted...
View ArticleBanana Berry Muffins {a healthy grab-n-go breakfast}
Lazy Sunday doesn’t mean the same thing as it used to. In the old days it meant wake up sometime before noon and relocate to the couch for football or movie watching. In college my roommate and I...
View ArticleRoasted Asparagus
I’ve taken to eating asparagus in protest. The current temperature is 25 degrees. It’s supposed to snow on Monday. It’s mid-March. What the… This summer had better be worth it, is all I have to say....
View ArticleIndividual Meat Loaves
Let’s all admit it…the best part of meatloaf is the crust. Sweetened by ketchup, the caramelized, crusty outside is reason alone to make meatloaf. That’s one reason that I made these meatloaves...
View ArticleMustardy Sweet Potato Wedges {kids cooking}
Sweet potatoes and I, we didn’t understand each other for a long time. They didn’t make sense to me. I dunno, I guess I feel like if you want potatoes have potatoes and if you want something sweet...
View ArticleCaesar salad {kids cooking}
“I’d just like a nice Caesar salad with some grilled chicken” says my 5-year old son occasionally. Because, you know, that’s a typical kids dinner request. No problem though, I like your style and hey...
View ArticleOrange Chocolate Oatmeal Muffins {low sugar, 3 ww points}
Every time the kids and I go to the grocery store, they beg about getting Cocoa Puffs (and beg, and beg, and beg). The answer is always no. Sorry, cereal has enough sugar as it is, no we are not...
View ArticleShaking off the cobwebs: our weekly seasonal menu
Do you know that thing that you have? The one that was super important to you, and you loved and cherished, and spent a ton of time with until one day you put it out of the way it in a corner and just...
View ArticleGoodbye Summer – Hello Fall – Weekly Menu
I love the long, slow transition to fall. Mornings are cool but days are still warm. You get to break out all of the long sleeve clothes but also keep the summer clothes in rotation too. It’s the best...
View Article{Weekly menu} When it rains…I make soup
Fall has certainly arrived! And while I’m ready for warming, comfort food I’m not ready for heavy, meat-tastic calorie bombs. I’m trying to keep us healthy, lose some weight myself, and train for this...
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