Sweet Confections: Beautiful Candy to Make at Home Written by: Nina Wanat Published by: Lark Crafts With Valentine’s just day around the corner, my notorious sweet tooth merged with an itch for a crafty project in the form of Nina Wanat’s book Sweet Confections: Beautiful Candy to Make at Home. Having arrived on my doorstep [...]
There were many reasons why I wanted to get the PlanetBox for my son Ben. The biggest one though was a recurring conversation with his teacher — I would pick him up from school, and get reports that he wasn’t putting all his lunch stuff away, cleaning up wrappers, losing containers, etc. So I asked [...]
My son has the world’s best nanny (her name is Nyssa), and we’re losing her. My husband is sad about it and I am pretty much devastated. She was sort of a nanny to Finn/assistant to me, and quite frankly, she kind of ran our household without that ever having been the plan. I have [...]
Book: Good Bite Weeknight Meals: Delicious Made Easy Published by: Wiley If I had to, for some reason, make the choice between cooking for the rest of my life from paper cookbooks or cooking blogs, I would be hard-pressed to say which I would choose. If everything is going smoothly, I’ll sit down on a [...]
Behold the banana. Delicious, nutritious and economical, what’s not to love? I am a big banana fan, and if it is even possible, I have started to enjoy them even more since I started to feed them to our son a year ago in a few great ways… Smooshed Banana Yogurt First of all, I [...]
Sometimes I see one vegetable and know it’s time to try it. That happened yesterday with golden beets at the Farmers Market. Now, I’ve never prepared a golden beet in my life but it seemed to me I’d read a recipe that paired these golden beauties with goat cheese. A quick perusal on my iPhone [...]
I eat hemp hearts — on granola and in yogurt… …and I sometimes even use hemp milk in my cereal or granola as well. And I even think that this product makes sense — imagine the combined health benefits of tomatoes with all their lycopene goodness, with hemp, which is said to “…contain all the [...]
Okay, yum. Just yum. No small talk, no beating around the bush, here’s my take on a great recipe from Brooke Burke of modernmom.com, Fried Rice. INGREDIENTS 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts or 8 skinless, boneless chicken thighs 4 cups white rice chicken or beef broth olive oil 1 onion 3 cloves garlic 2 carrots, [...]
We have shared with you our fondness of quinoa in the past. It really is an amazing little grain…(seed?)…Wikipedia calls it a goosefoot. (All bolded text is a link to more info!) “Quinoa (pronounced /ˈkinwÉ‘/KEEN-wah or /ˈkinoÊŠÉ™/KEE-no-uh, Spanish quinua, from Quechua kinwa) is a species of goosefoot (Chenopodium) grown as a crop primarily for its [...]
Sometime as early as after Halloween and maybe even as late as after Thanksgiving (Canadian and/or US), I feel the holiday spirit hit. It’s when you transition from shaking your head at how early the stores are putting up their Christmas displays, to realizing that you’ve started to get the holiday warm fuzzies. It’s a [...]
