Happy 2012 to you all! I’m truly glad to have kissed 2011 goodbye, and am looking forward to what this next year will bring. Adam and I had a low-key New Years Eve with homemade cheese fondue, and I spent a good portion of the evening concocting this recipe. I got it set in my [...]
For the last few years, Hanukkah has fallen during a fairly inconvenient time within the holiday season. Seriously, last year, Hanukkah was three days after Thanksgiving! Since the celebration of Hanukkah is a relatively minor holiday, and what we really like is the fun time with family, we’ve created “Nonukkah” or a “ninth night” when [...]
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on December 24, 2011
in Baking,dessert
Being a Spanish teacher who is fairly obsessed with food and food traditions has its benefits. In addition to being able to share these traditions with my students, I relish opportunities to eat and recreate them. I know the glory that is queso de cabra al horno en tomate or goat cheese baked in tomato [...]
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on December 23, 2011
in nails,random
In preparation for the upcoming holidays, I hosted a nail art club meeting at school on Tuesday. We all did something slightly different, but there was a definite theme: Some of us did Santa jackets Some of us did Winter and Christmas scenes And some of us did Christmas lights! I’m currently rocking an extremely [...]
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on December 15, 2011
in random
The response was overwhelming to last night’s question, “Should I do a ‘favorite things’ post?”, and you all seem to want to know the kinds of things that I like! This is, by no means, a sponsored post. Anything on here was either purchased by me or given to me as a gift. I am [...]
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day! We had the first of THREE Thanksgiving meals yesterday, and I’ve been excited to share these photos with you all since I took them! We met at Eo’s house in the early afternoon, and as always, were greeted with warm hugs and amazing smells coming from [...]
I’m going to do my best here… Parker House Rolls
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on May 8, 2011
in family
Today is not only Mother’s Day, but it’s also her birthday… so there’s no other time more perfect to wax poetic about how amazing my mom is. I don’t think I’d be half the person I am today without my mom… from the time I was a little girl, she taught me to appreciate the [...]
Ok, almost Wordless Wednesday. You all know I can’t REALLY be quiet. I spent the past two nights at two different family Passover celebrations! Monday night, I went with Adam to his family’s seder, and didn’t quite feel right taking photos. Tuesday though, at my mom’s, I took advantage of the situation to take some [...]
What happens when you take a bowl of ganache this big, A couple of messy hands, some waxed paper, and a little creativity…and mush them together with a little patience? Lucky coworkers. That’s what. And what happens when I make a ganache out of lovely peanut butter chips, then dip balls of it into melted [...]