I’m sure you’ve fallen into the same trap with your kids. No matter how healthy you try to be, as soon as they’re old enough to start ordering their own food at restaurants, they discover the kids’ meals… and the French fries. I really have a bone to pick with pretty much every restaurant in […]
Join Debbie as she raves about whole foods, rants about chemicals and generally celebrates cooking and eating with fresh, local, nutritious foods. And sometimes she might get a little feisty…. You’ve heard it here first. Yes, that’s right: I officially will stop complaining about the piddly amounts of produce our CSA farm has been giving […]
It’s been a while since we’ve made grilled pizza, but tonight the stars were in alignment and the weather was cooperating, so pizza we grilled. It was nothing fancy; in fact, it was an old go-to combination of whatever we had in the veggie bin and Trader Joe’s pesto chicken sausage. The toppings were onion, […]
My wife loves buttercream frosting. By love, I mean that she would divorce me for someone who made or was made of buttercream frosting. So, when it came to whipping up some cupcakes for my daughter’s birthday party it was either purchasing it from a can or making some on my own. I decided to […]
You almost need nothing but a big, juicy slice of watermelon, dripping down your chin as you slurp it down, on this list. My only regret is that seedless watermelon has rendered the seed-spitting contests of my youth obsolete. Sometimes, though, I just feel the need to get creative. Yeah, I know you’ve figured that […]
I make pesto a lot, especially in the summer months when fresh basil abounds. I’ve come across a “recipe” that works well for me, which really consists of dumping handfuls of ingredients into my food processor, no measuring involved. Many years ago, I do believe this was inspired by a Cooking Light recipe, which included […]
The last clambake that my family went to, a few years back, our then almost two-year-old ate the lion’s share of my lobster. I’m a loving, giving, generous mom, so I only resented him a little bit for it, and I was secretly tickled that my crazy kid adored the bizarre shellfish. Fast forward three […]
