By now you’ve heard a few stories of how I’ve changed now that I’m a 30 year old, and it’s time for another. I feel it’s appropriate to talk about being 30 for at least a year before people can tell me to shut up; today is even better because it’s one of my oldest…
Last week we shared our Top 10 Fish & Seafood recipes and this week we thought we’d share our Top 10 Meatless recipes. Â Part of the reason we decided to do two different Top 10 lists is because when we started with the combined Top 10, it was just too hard to leave out recipe…
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which marks the first day of Lent.  Today and every Friday between now and Easter, Catholics will abstain from meat.  I wanted to start things off with a big bowl of soup this time of year, there is nothing better than a hot bowl of soup. Well unless it’s a hot…
How do you get kids to eat their vegetables? If you believe Hidden Valley, you just dip them in ranch. But growing up my mom had an even better solution – smother them in cheese, from a block of processed American cheese. She used to steam broccoli and carrots and then melt a little bit…
This time of year you can find lugs of fresh pears ripe and ready for canning. I only know that term because we’ve purchased them in years past and brought them home for my mother-in-law to can when she wasn’t able to get them in our hometown. Although you can usually find them year round,…
A couple months ago, my friend Carmen was telling me about this new trick she found for poaching eggs in a mug in the microwave. And as part of that story, she mentioned that she served them over a sweet potato hash that she made with onions, red peppers and spinach – oh and of…