A Cheese Lover’s Valentine Box
Don't get me wrong, I *heart* chocolate and am happily reading all the blogsphere's February celebration recipes I stumble across (like the 100+…
Salmon Potato Cakes: Inspired by Norway
Stunning landscape. Beautiful people. Amazing seafood. All these stereotypes proved to be true on my recent visit to Norway. I was the fortunate…
In training for Food Blog South: Rosemary Shrimp & Sweet Potato Grits
Since early adulthood, I've always been enamored by the South. OK, it started in stereotypical fashion - I've read Gone With the Wind more times than…
Top 5 Food Nutrition Trends from FNCE
According to my daughter, the top tchotchke prize I brought home from this year’s American Dietetic Association’s (ADA) annual conference was the…
Food Fun Friday: Blackberry Picking
Foraging for blackberries with "G. Pa" at Findley Lake, NY. Do you prefer blackberries or…
Food Fun Friday: More tomato love
There's nothing better than New Jersey grown tomatoes in August. Correction: there's nothing better than New Jersey grown tomatoes in…
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
OK, admittedly I've only visited the Big Easy a handful of times but there's just something about this town that gets under your skin. (I'm convinced…
Santa Farms in the ‘Off’ Season
The public sentiment these days is that farmers are pretty good folk. One of them, a guy my little girls and I met yesterday at the farmers market,…
Prize-winning Strawberry Pico de Gallo Salad
Now that the California Giant Berries “Reciberries for Life” healthy recipe contest has officially closed, I can share what I’m sure will be…
Happy Paczki Day
Yesterday was Fat Tuesday; or in any place where wonderful Polish bakeries exist, it's Paczki Day. These traditionally Polish raised donuts…
The best coffee house: Macys in Flagstaff, Arizona
Last night we returned from a winter get-away to Arizona. While it was luxurious to escape the three feet of snow blanketing our back yard, it was…
Chicago-isms: Stopping for "some Bakery", "coffee, and"
We stopped off for some bakery yesterday. That’s right. “Some bakery” is a Chicago-ism, that in most parts of the country – and in proper…
Perfect Persimmons
Wild persimmons growing among yellow leaves Bright orange Persimmons grow wild in southern Illinois! Who knew? I knew autumn was…
Boozy Lollicakes
Cakes brought home for my kidsMy cousin Jessica is hip. Yesterday’s blog from New York blogger Small Bites chronicles the recent…
The Pixy Stix Fountain of Youth
Chocolate-covered Caramel Corn Yesterday we discovered the Fountain of Youth. It’s in the next town over, in Riverside, it’s…(drum roll,…
Brilliant
Before kids, my husband and I traveled to South Africa; on one of our safaris, a tardy British couple had to run after our large ATV in order to keep…
Fishy
We're at the end of our Florida vacation and we've seen a lot of dead fish. Luckily two of them have been delicious! The week before we arrived, it…
Organic Brown Eggs $2
We just returned from what I’m calling our ‘farmcation,’ (similar to the popular and economical staycation, but instead of staying home for our…
