When it comes to trying new recipes, I sort of hunker down in a cookbook and stay awhile. My menu cycle is two weeks long and so this time around I seem to be hanging out with Jamie Oliver. We had the roast beef for Father’s Day with those tasty little Yorkies. And today I [...]
It’s 4 p.m. Dinner time is fast approaching. The kids are hungry promptly at 5:30. You are tired and have lost your creative edge for the day. In fact, your own blood sugar is starting to dip and you know what that means—the witching hour has begun. Mrs. Crankenstein is inhabiting your body sucking all [...]
Earlier this week, my husband notified me that one of his coworkers was having a birthday (one that divides evenly into 100 only a few times). And would I pretty please make her a cake. Well, as you know, we’ve been a little obsessed with the Red Velvet cupcakes from Sweet Cakes lately. Hmmm…maybe I [...]
Last night was the second Julie Jams cooking class. This class’s theme was “Wild & Crazy Salads”. We swapped the regular garden variety salad for some more interesting choices including Jicama Orange, Spinach Orzo Pilaf, Lemon-Garlic Quinoa, and Scandanavian Slaw. Since this class was announced via the blog, we actually had a couple of people [...]
Isn’t it easy to get into a food rut? We do it all the time, mostly at breakfast. For a while it was Ancient Grain Bread toasted with butter and honey. When we lived in China it was an egg fried perfectly round in a wok with some steam bread to dip in our instant [...]
