This year my parents are celebrating their 50^th anniversary and to mark this momentous occasion they took the whole family on a Caribbean cruise. Honestly, I was a little apprehensive about setting sail with our brood for seven long days. But it turned out to be a fantastic voyage.

There are lots of fun things to do on a cruise but by my calculations about 90% of the time is spent eating.  And by eating I mean, elaborate three-course meals, even for breakfast. If you don’t…

General Tsao's Chicken

I love Chinese food but hate the way you usually feel afterwards.  Sometimes I get an…

Hooray! Today is Π-Day! That’s PI-Day… the Greek letter that’s often shortened to 3.14 when you want to find the circumference of a circle. Today is March 14… and, you guessed it, 3/14.

Did I lose you?  Hope not, because I’ve whipped up a delicious savory PIE to celebrate Π-Day.

Could have made the…

OK… so who, exactly, is this General Tso and why is his chicken dish so popular? (I mean, like, was he the Colonel Sanders of his time?)

In honor of the Chinese New Year, which commenced  on February 10, I whipped up one of my favorite Chinese dishes: General…

Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos

In our house, she is the ultimate rock star. She has a killer wardrobe, cool friends and awesome adventures. My daughter laughs and shrieks with delight when she sees her. Who is this hip chick?

It’s Chica the Chicken!

Preschoolers may already know Chica as one of the many fun characters from “The…

As much as my husband would love it, the boys are just not ready to hang around on a Sunday afternoon watching football. I have absolutely no doubt it is our future but for now Brian patiently waits and surrenders the TV to the latest Kung Fu Panda episode.

With the Super Bowl on the horizon we thought it would be fun to take the boys out to one of the local wings joints. Our plan was to watch the…

Happy Tuesday Everyone!! Thanks for stopping in the kitchen today. It's National Back to School Day and we're going to celebrate with two lunch ideas for your kids. Kraft Foods has added smoothies to their Lunchables line. Check them out.



Lunchables with Smoothies



  



Kraft does an amazing job with helping us feed the kids in our lives. Their Lunchables line has increased…

Just for the record, the fact that I even letting this recipe leave my fingertips.. my grandma is probably SPINNING in her grave of exasperation.  …

Keeping with my goal to be a little more adventurous with my grill meals, this week I’m serving up Garlic-Lemon Rotisserie Chicken.

Rotisserie chicken is a popular meal option these days – from fast food restaurants to the deli counter at your supermarket to wholesale clubs (a CNBC documentary I saw about Costco last week said they sell 55 million of them a year!), and I’m telling you, it is an easy way to cook chicken! Food that is cooked slowly and in a…

It is finally official! My story Delivered Not By The Stork has been selected for publication in the new Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms. The newest book of the Chicken Soup series will be in the bookstores on March 8, 2011.

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My family loves chicken. So much so that I think I could cook it for them every day and they would be happy. Well, except for BigGirl (the Meatasauraus) who needs her steak and “pork butt” to be happy.…

In honor of our 5th Anniversary, which is this Saturday, May 22nd, I decided to post one of my favorite “for two” recipes…..

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So I am not staying home to cook on our 5th Anniversary. I didn’t cook on our wedding day, so I figure I get a pass….. We are, however, going to dinner with my parents, who will be celebrating their 45th Anniversary (how rare is that these days?) and our very good friends and next door neighbors. We are going to out little hidden gem here in town…