Food, Family, and Lifestyle
While our company was here, I wanted to make some fun meals that required little time in the kitchen. This way we had more time to roam, play, explore and spend time together. Therefore, I pulled out the slow cooker and within 5 minutes, I had a dish in the cooker and waiting for us…
We have family visiting this week and decided to head out for lunch yesterday during the perfectly timed ‘ Westerly Restaurant Week’. We chose to dine at the ‘Sea Goose’ and plan on exploring a few other restaurants this week. There are a number of new restaurants downtown so you need to give them a try…
In January 2012, I went to a free dental consultation about the Invisalign teeth straightening system. I was thinking about returning to work outside of the home and about feeling confident so I figured I would go and see what the doctor said before I brought it up to my husband (this was before I even knew…
I may have already mentioned that starting mid-Summer, our daughter started having some stomach issues. While awaiting for results from a second round of tests, the pediatrician advised us to stop dairy for three weeks and see if it helped so we had to kick off the school year with this in mind. As many…
Panera Bread has a new signature pasta dish called San Marzano pasta. My daughter saw the sign the other night and I told her that I could easily whip that up for dinner one night. Well, last night was the night. It does not look as pretty as while I was preparing it last minute,…
Starting today, September 15th and running though September 22nd, $2 from each and every Rhode Island Recipes E-book will be donated to the Ronald McDonald House Providence. The eBook sells for only $8.99. The 30 recipes, including full-color photos of each, use 17 iconic Rhode Island food products like Del’s Lemonade, Dave’s Coffee Syrup, Rhode…
You may have noticed that I enjoy coffee (if not, you must be new here). Knowing that, you could only imagine how excited I was to find a new coffee cafe , called, ‘Junque N’ Java‘, opened downtown. There is even a small gift shop (I think Rhode Island Recipes would be a great fit…
Does peanut with potatoes sound weird to you? Never thought of it right? I had not either but while preparing to go grocery shopping, I was flipping through the coupon circular and spotted an ad. The ad was for a peanut panko coating mixture in a box and showed a few photos, one of which…
My parents came to visit and brought along a bunch of items from their CSA basket so I set to work baking them into a Vegetarian Lasagna. Since our 7-year son adores Lasagna, the last serving of this recipe is now in his lunch box. Yes folks, his lunch box (better than a sandwich eh?).
