Food, Family, and Lifestyle
You know the feeling right? Your open your eyes and your entire body feels heavy. You think you have an extra dry throat but upon swallowing you know it is actually sore and burning. You drink two cups of coffee to find you don’t feel any more awake. That is my current state as I…
I want to please you. Yup, put a big smile on your face after a meal is what I want to achieve. I want the kids to ask you to make this again soon and your friends be amazed by your creativity. Do you think they would ‘ooh’ and ‘ahh’ if you offered Barbecue chicken…
Obsession. Fixation. Desire. All appropriate words to describe the reaction to the chocolate strawberry donuts (also know as duffins or monuts). Therefore, I decided to create a new muffin donut. Today’s offering is adapted from ‘Healthy with Heather’ as part of the Secret Recipe Club. Check out Heather’s version called ‘Lemon Blackberry Donuts’ as the original is…
Any chance you recall the brownies that I made last week? You know the ones: a dreamy layer of milk chocolate peanut butter melted all over the top? yes, those. Well, I couldn’t not try another experiment at the same time. Did you hear that? I did not make another batch but simply split the batch in…
When I attended Blogher Food in past May, I was super excited for a session titled ‘Branding Ain’t Just for Cattle: Set Yourself Apart from the Herd’. The panelists included Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan and Melissa Clark. I kinda sorta spent most the time in my seat fidgeting and staring at the panelists. I was afraid my…
It has come to my attention that my son’s Kindergarten teacher wants to eat his lunch. Not kidding. My son announced yesterday ‘Mom, Mrs. C wants to eat my lunch.’ I replied ‘Oh, do you mean that Mrs. C likes that you eat all your lunch?’ Her said, ‘No Mommy, she wants you to take…
Do you like food fights? How about one where you don’t end up with sauce on your head? If this sounds good to you, please join SheSpeaks and me tonight for the Healthy Food Fight twitter party. Aetna has teamed up with Bobby Flay to spread the word on healthy living and eating in America. I know you…
During the past week,you have probably seen the ads for the movie “I Don’t Know How She Does It” with Sarah Jessica Parker (opens on September 16th) and it reminded me that I wanted to share a video about one way I approach trying to balance/manage/organize the home, kiddos, biz, meals etc. Without further ado, the wall calendar of all wall…
It’s not all about kids you know. I like to make dishes just for my man sometimes. My hubby works at home as well and so I made us a fun breakfast the other day. Now that both kids are in school, I have been trying to get my hubby into the habit of going…
