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This Summer Favorite Is Easy, Light, and Fast Have you ever been somewhere where the food was so amazing that you were sure you’d starve to death when you got back home? For me, New York City is that place. From the fancy dinner venues to the street food vendors, I can’t get enough of [...]
A Vegetarian Favorite That You Can Make Yourself Most of the people in my household won’t touch a thing if I tell them it’s vegetarian. Meat eaters, the lot of them. But if I don’t tell them what’s going on, I can sometimes sneak in some delicious vegetarian options right under their noses. This recipe [...]
Holy Moly! This Grilled Cheese Recipe Is Insane! Want to talk about something I did that was absolutely evil for a minute? Let’s start with slow cookers. For the record, I love my slow cooker so much, and I probably overuse it. How can you pass up a recipe with a slow cooker? It does [...]
Make These Roll-Ups For The Perfect Snack Or Lunch One of my daughter’s favorite after-school snacks is my Grilled Cheese Fingers. Or, as she likes to call them, Fancy Pants Grilled Cheese. Well, there isn’t anything at all fancy about them, but they are darn good! While they make a great snack, you can throw these [...]
Cheesy Muffins Get Even Picky Eaters to Gobble Down Their Veggies If you’ve ever had a picky eater in your family, you probably know exactly how annoying it is to try to cook around their tastes while still getting them all their nutrients. At some point, you just want to force them to eat their [...]
Your Guests’ Eyes Will Get Huge When They Bite Into These! In my many, many (yes, really THAT many, I’m older than dirt!) years as an aficionado of all things Halloween, especially Halloween pranks, I have never seen one quite like this. It is stunning in its simplicity and so absolutely hilarious when you see [...]
Frightful For Your Eyes, Tasty For Your Tummy Here it is, nearly Halloween again. Seems like the years are going by faster and faster….or is that just me? This year, I’ve decided that I would like to host a small dinner party with a Halloween theme for just a few of my closest friends. Because [...]
I Can’t Eat If You Are Going To Stare At Me Like That! Have you ever looked at a plate of food at thought to yourself, “I just can’t eat that?” I will admit that I have consumed some rather strange and interesting things in my time, such as calamari, snails, anchovies, chia seed pudding [...]
You’ve Never Had This Dish, Made This Way! The sense of excitement and anticipation with which children await the arrival of Halloween is second only to their frenzied state while waiting for jolly old Saint Nick to pay them a visit. Their little minds are filled with visions of candy of every description. They discuss [...]
Oceans Of This Hearty Soup Wouldn’t Be Enough! When you try to think of Italian comfort food, chances are good that you are going to call to mind one of the classic pasta dishes. Maybe lasagna or the simple spaghetti and meatballs. You might go for a meat dish, like chicken parmesan. But there’s one [...]
