When I was a kid, lo those many scores ago, schools were never built around retail and food outlets. They were on hills. Steep hills. Hills that you had to climb upwards, both ways, without shoes, during daily blizzards, while hauling a sack of coal on your back (since you worked in the mines before […]
It’s always an adventure when Keith offers to stop by Whole Foods on the way home from work. Don’t get me wrong — I greatly appreciate the help with the grocery shopping, but somehow, things seem to get jumbled up in the translation of my grocery list into Keith-Speak. Sometimes, it will be something annoying […]
When I grew up, I was rarely allowed in the kitchen when serious meal prep was going on. I was born in an era where the husband worked outside the home and the wife was apparently married to her house as well as her husband. If that weren’t enough, my father was convinced that if […]
I’m all for the unexpected, the little surprises that make our meals fun as well as tasty. Didn’t I just post some unique lamb recipes to perk up your Easter fare? It’s true then: I must be open-minded. Somehow, though, I just can’t get past my, shall we say, distaste for this Easter breakfast recipe […]
Darlene’s back Guest-clacking again, after sharing her recipe for chicken two ways…. First of all, I don’t intend to title every guest post with multiple variations on a single theme, but two important events happened this week in the Wilson household and both involved asparagus. When I think about it, I would probably be a […]
Being a mom is hard. Sometimes we forget that kids are placed on this earth to remind us that things can’t always go our way. They do things like refuse to eat foods that they like, just to irritate us. For instance, Owen loves vegetables, has always loved vegetables, and until recently, would eat them […]
