About a month ago, FoodBuzz sent out an email asking for interested Featured Publishers to submit a proposal to host a Buitoni Riserva Pasta Party. On a whim, I submitted a proposal that read: My sister is obsessed with all things Italy, and has been since she was a little girl. I can remember her [...]
There are just good things happening like crazy over here at the What’s For Dinner “headquarters”! First, we had the iHerb.com $50 shopping spree contest (which you can still enter), and then the announcement of the opening of my OpenSky shop, and today even MORE cool stuff! I’ll get to the cool stuff after I [...]
A couple of months ago, a coworker and I were talking about how we make our “gravy”. Now, to any Italian cook or someone who associates with an Italian cook, “gravy” is not the brown stuff that goes on your Thanksgiving dinner. “Gravy” is tomato sauce. John (my coworker) was telling me about his recipe [...]
How is it when the day is one of those thats not quite a “bad” day, but definitely not a “good” day, somehow the food sample fairy always seems to know, and visits me? It’s happened a few times now, and today was no exception! The day started out fine, but it never really got [...]
Today was a very long and busy day, but thankfully tomorrow I’m off to go to our wedding cake tasting! I get to “sleep in” which means getting up at probably 7:30. On my way home, I realized that while a black bean burger (the original planned dinner) sounded OK, a ground beef burger sounded [...]
Today was one of those days that reminds me why I continue to work at camp year after year. There’s really something rewarding about seeing little kids experience things like milking a cow, playing with baby animals, chasing goats, and going on their first hayrides. Today was full of this And some of this: A [...]
…Cheese that’s not yours? NACHO CHEESE! HA! I crack myself up! I got the genius idea to make healthy nachos for dinner tonight and immediately headed out to the grocery store to get everything we needed. Low and behold, there were Guiltless Gourmet tortilla chips on sale. I grew up eating Guiltless Gourmet blue corn [...]