When I was younger and still living at home with my mom, there were a few things she’d make that I just couldn’t keep a fork or spoon out of. One was her tuna salad. Another was chicken soup with matzo ball soup. And another was her chicken salad. Usually sometime not long after she [...]
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There was a time, very early on in my blogging days, where you would’ve been greeted with a post entitled: Wilted spinach salad with bacon, red onion, cashews, dried cranberries, bleu cheese, and roasted garlic balsamic vinaigrette. Ouch. I would’ve frantically posted a dark, slightly grainy, slightly overcorrected photo of said salad, apologized for the [...]
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One of my all-time favorite combinations for spring and summer dining is the classic Caprese salad. Caprese is a simple salad made with fresh tomatoes, fresh basil, and mozzarella di bufalo, seasoned with olive oil, salt and pepper, and sometimes balsamic vinegar. Sounds delicious, right? I’ve made various versions of Caprese before, including last Memorial [...]
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Since the response was so HUGE for my perfect whole wheat pizza dough, I figured I’d go above and beyond my normal “couple of pictures and a recipe” post, and just for you, because I’m nice like that, I decided to do a photo tutorial. You’ll thank me in a little while! For those of [...]
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I’m a sucker for a great farmer’s market. I think it’s been engrained in me from a very young age that food from the farmer’s market is just better than food from the grocery store. In recent years, I’ve learned to truly appreciate the wonderful flavors that come from produce grown in our own time [...]
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I can’t believe there are only two weeks of camp to go before the school year starts up again! Where has the time gone? While my mind can’t wrap itself around the fact that the summer is coming to a close, the weather begs to differ. It’s been hot, humid, mosquito-y, and full of outdoor [...]
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In case you haven’t noticed in the dozens of post I’ve done on the matter, I get food nostalgia. I have so many memories of specific dishes, recipes, smells, that remind me of different times in my life. This is an odd one though. There are few foods that I remember loving as much as [...]
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I’d been looking forward to June 26 for a long time. Besides the fact that it was my dad’s birthday (happy late birthday Dad!), it was the scheduled night for our bi-monthly meeting of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pans! We decided at our last meeting that our next culinary stop would be Latin America, [...]
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It was brought to my attention (Thanks Lizz) that I didn’t do a Wednesday in Numbers this past week. You see, one of the problems with working with as many children as I do is that, well, children have germs. They managed to pass on a lovely cold/sore throat/earache/headache lovely disease from Tuesday until yesterday, [...]
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Last summer, I started a tradition of my crazy camp Wednesdays broken down into numbers. This year, that tradition will continue, but it will also include much better photos and a recipe. 222: Campers in attendance today 10: campers in my group 3: junior counselor/helpers for my group 750: game tokens handed out 2745: total [...]
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