When I was a kid, I was always curious to see what my friends had in their kitchen. Sugar cereal? Candy? Entenmann’s? Show me the loot! You have to understand, my mom sent me to school with homemade carrot-raisin slaw packed in 1970’s (brown) Tupperware. I was that kid. Today, I…
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ally’s skillet spiced yams & a new cookbook
Cookbook reviews make me anxious. More specifically, reviewing someone else’s work… someone you know. After reading Ally’s new cookbook- flipping through the pages, tasting, wondering, imagining- my angst dissipated into enthusiasm. Her enthusiasm. And it’s infectious.
orzo picnic salad
Over the weekend, we went to 3 birthday parties. Not cool adult parties with vintage wine and civilized cheese platters… kid parties. When I was a kid, birthday parties consisted of a small group of children, usually at our house, with parent supervised games and a Carvel cake. Nowadays, you have to…
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chocolate chip granola bars + a trip for two!
There’s one 3 letter word that gets me all riled up: GMO (I’m sweating already). It stands for Genetically Modified Organisim, but you probably already know that. In college, I wrote a 30 page thesis on the subject detailing the detriments of messing around with our food DNA, not to mention the…
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wholegrain strawberry breakfast cake
Cake for breakfast? It’s a thing! Try this simple and healthy wholegrain strawberry breakfast cake. It’s perfectly sweet and quick to put together. We planted grass seeds in the backyard. And every morning, I turn on the sprinkler to water the soil. Then I turn it off. And then on…
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