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• May 22, 2013 • 0 COMMENTS

  Recipe: Scallop and Pancetta Kebabs with Balsamic Glaze

  I want to come clean about something right away.  This meal would NOT fly with everyone in my house, namely Charlie who just plain hates scallops.  He hates scallops so much that about a year ago he asked me if I would only make scallops when he was out of the house, not only for... MORE

• May 07, 2013 • 0 COMMENTS

  Recipe: How to Get Yourself Breakfast in Bed on Mother’s Day

  In a perfect world you would not have to read this blog post, and I would not have to write it. In a perfect world I also wouldn’t be writing this at the orthodontist’s office waiting for my kid to have his palate expander fixed for the seventeenth time. Mother’s Day is Sunday May 12.... MORE

• May 07, 2013 • 0 COMMENTS

  Recipe: Lazy Oven French Toast

  asically a strata, this dish is composed of layers of eggs, milk, and bread, plus your choice of flavorings. Stratas can be sweet, enhanced with chopped dried fruit, nuts, chocolate, or booze (that’s for another book, though), or savory, layered with cheese, ham, and so on. This one cooks up much like a French toast... MORE

• May 01, 2013 • 0 COMMENTS

  Recipe: Pasta with Ramps, Edamame, and Sugar Snap Peas in a Light Parmesan Cream Sauce

  If you saw this on a menu, you’d order it, right?... MORE

• April 24, 2013 • 0 COMMENTS

  Recipe: 5-Ingredient Pasta #2: Campenelle with Chicken Sausage, Kale and Olives

  This is a hearty pasta, but a bit less heavy than you might expect as chicken sausage is used instead of the more typical pork sausage.  I found that getting my kids to eat kale became a whole lot easier when I paired it up with sausage – funny how life works that way.  This... MORE

• April 15, 2013 • 14 COMMENTS

  Bake Your Teacher a Thank You

  Bake Your Teachers a Thank You!: A Blueprint We all know how hard our teachers work, right?   When people say that being a parent is the toughest job in the world, I think they may not have given teaching a hard and close enough look.  Let’s show these teachers some love! Baking Your Teachers a... MORE

• April 10, 2013 • 105 COMMENTS

  Today I Feel Like Talking About My Dad

  My dad died Sunday.  The words don’t look right sitting on the page, they don’t feel like they belong to me, they must have been written by someone else, someone with a dead father. He was sick for 6 months.  A long time.  No, a short time.  Kind of a lifetime.  It was brain cancer,... MORE

• March 27, 2013 • 0 COMMENTS

  Recipe: Five Ingredient Pasta #1: Thin Spaghetti with Fennel, Bacon and Parmesan

  I recently wrote an article about 5-ingredient pastas, which was so much fun, and got me to re-appreciate how if you have packages of dried pasta on hand you always have dinner waiting to happen.  I love cooking concepts that could be their own little reality show.  This one would be titled something like: “Grab... MORE

• February 28, 2013 • 7 COMMENTS

  Recipe: Roast Beef with Mustard Garlic Crust and Horseradish Sauce

  One of the easiest and most satisfying dinner possible involves a roast of some kind.  The preparation is usually quite simple, and while it’s in the oven it requires no attention from you.  The only other real factor is measuring the cooking time so that it is cooked to your liking.  You can always put... MORE

• February 19, 2013 • 2 COMMENTS

  Recipe: Apple Cider Beef Stew

  My family loves a classic beef stew made with red wine and tomatoes, but after an overzealous shopping expedition at a farm stand I found myself with a lot of apple cider in the fridge.  (What is it about cider at a farm stand?  Is it possible to NOT buy a couple of jugs?  Especially... MORE