I seem to be the go-to house on Fridays which thrills me since I love the hustle and bustle of kids, the shrill of teenage girls and the buzzing of video games from the boys, an ideal backdrop to a week’s finale. Nothing makes me happier to hear that my daughter’s friends tweet that “Sofia’s mom ...
Kitchen Chronicles
Have a "Souper" Start to 2015
It’s only the first week of the New Year and I’m already feeling frenzied as I try to fit everything in. There’s no need to define “everything” since you have your own “everything” going on. I’m just jam packed this week, overwhelmed and spinning in circles. To top things off, one of my kids was ...
Holiday Cookies Galore
I’m not sure how time has flown quite the way it has, but it’s already holiday cookie time and another year will soon come to a sweet end. An end-of-year tradition continued for me, as my friends and I gathered this past Sunday at my house to ice and decorate cut out sugar cookies. My dining room ...
Celebrate National Oatmeal Day with my Breakfast Cookies!
In honor of national oatmeal day, I'm going to share my breakfast cookie recipe with you since it's loaded with oatmeal -- the best kind -- Quaker Old Fashioned Oats! Though I call it a breakfast cookie, it's usually my mid morning snack cookie after a workout. It's certainly healthier than a ...
Applelicious
We finally went apple picking, the last possible weekend in our area to do so. But I was determined to get the family to continue one of our favorite fall traditions. With an hour drive to the northwestern part of our garden state, the trees had already lost most of the leaves and it felt more like ...
This Soup's for You!
With the recent transformation of my daughter from carnivore to vegetarian, my cooking challenges have suddenly become a whole lot more interesting. My skirt steak loving and lovely daughter Sofia is now a vegetarian and there’s no stopping her. She took one look at “the cutest pig in the world” on ...
Thank Goodness it’s Friday! (TGIF)
Thank Goodness it’s Friday! (TGIF) With two back to school nights in a row, it’s back to school for sure in my house! Battling the early morning hours and exhausted evenings, it was a busy week as we all did our best to adjust to the first full week of school. I managed to squeeze in two cooking ...
Back to School Cooking with Friends!
Back to school and back to heavy duty cooking. And waking up early to make lunches, after school snacks, homemade cookies and a variety of dinners! As much as we busy moms may enjoy the new quiet in the house, our back to school routines will soon have stress as we juggle homework and activities ...
Sweet and Simple Morsels of Friendship
This is a simple story about how making ravioli refueled a friendship. My 15 year relationship with Debbie began in her kitchen as we cooked and created our way through young motherhood. With our children just in diapers, Debbie and I shared many of the same concerns and issues like what kinds of ...
Humble yet Hearty
I’m just back from another spectacular visit to the Algarve region of Portugal where simple food shines and descriptive words like “farm fresh” and “local” are most at home. I’ll confess that I didn’t cook a lot, though I did prepare humble lunches using basic yet fresh produce. I’d slice and ...