Homemade Ranch Dressing With Chopped Salad and Upcoming Free Workshops
Hi everyone and thanks for all your congrats comments for the Red Cross Award! I want to share a recipe with you that is more assembling than cooking. If you are nervous about presenting a lunch for a friend or your family, how about trying this recipe on for size? You cannot go wrong. I […]
Sweet Potatoe Puree with Crystallized Ginger and My Secret Day…
Hi everyone. Such a busy day today. Let me run through my list of things to make sure I did them all: Have a photo shoot of me at my house for a magazine feature I will be in , make-up, hair and photography crew getting here at 7:30AM while most kids still asleep-CHECK! Drop […]
Peach Salsa with Black Beans and the Dread of the School Lunches Begins…
Hi everyone and please click on the title of this post to read more. Let me start by telling you that although I had a lovely and restful weekend, the dread of school starting has already started seeping in. For me, some of the worst parts of school are getting all the homework done and […]
Creamy Fava bean Dip, Preparing for Crying in Public and Herb Gardens…
Hi everyone and please click on the title of this post to read more. First off, an announcement that I will be hosting the final Parents Who Rock fundraiser to bring Little Kids Rock (www.little kidsrock.org) into the Montclair school district this Saturday from 2-5Pm -more details at www.parentswhorock.com. Today, I would like to talk […]
Caponata (Eggplant Dip/Sauce) , Support Systems for Cooking and Surviving……
Hi everyone and please click on the title of this post to read more. Happy Birthday Peggy and Katy!! Well, I could go into great detail about how insanely overscheduled we were this weekend but instead I will simply show you the actual schedule below: Saturday, May 30th, 2009: 9AM drop off drums for Parents […]
Curried Chutney Dip and What are Your Signature Dishes???
Hi everyone and please click on the title of this post to read more. What a memory lane strolling weekend I had. Yesterday, I had a mini reunion with some Junior High School friends who have moved, like me, out of the City, but are still close enough to visit. It was so fun to […]
Chili Black Bean Dip and My Amazing Weekend…
Hi everyone and please click on the title of this post to read more. Well, I don’t know about you, but I am coming off of a ca-razy weekend! It started off on Saturday with a Take Back the Kitchen Workshop with parents of Montclair Kimberly Academy, a private school in my town, where we […]
Truffled Bean Dip and the Andrew Epiphany!
Hi everyone and please click on the title of this post to read more. Well, I have big news (no, I am not pregnant): Our Thursday night baked, breaded chicken tenders night is over. If you long time readers recall, I instituted breaded chicken night when I decided I had had it with fake chicken […]
Creamy Hummus, an Oven in the Office and CHEAP Dinners!
Hi everyone and please click on the title of this post to read more. Well, you will see in the photo posted that there is a woman in an office with an oven. Her name is Pam, she is the President of a software company AND cooks for all her employees. She cooks for them […]
Eggplant Dip (Babaganoush) , Feeling Healthy and Looking Good to Cook in 2009?
Hi everyone and please click on the title of this post to read more. Welcome back to school and work as usual in 2009. Well, you may be wondering why I posted a photo of myself from the summer with my son on his first day of Kindergarten on my site. I’m not going to […]