Summer cooking. Had me a blast. Summer cooking. Spring just couldn’t last. Summer’s a comin’!  Got your pool body ready?  Got your kids’ activities planned out?  Nailed down any summer vacation plans? For me: My pool body looks a lot like my snow shoveling body. My kids’ activities looks a lot like bike riding and Read more

Have you heard this song by Nichole Nordeman?  If you’re a parent, it’ll hit you hard. If you have very little ones, it seems like time isn’t going fast.  But, one day, you wake up and you have a 5-year-old – even though it feels like you just gave birth to him.  I can easily Read more

My kids are barbecue freaks.  The sauce, that is.  Not necessarily the style of cooking.  They don’t know much about that.  No, they love the sauce.  I’m not very adventurous with the meats that I cook with, but if I’m using barbecue sauce, they’ll eat it.  I have to be careful that they have chicken Read more

When Irish eyes are smiling, it means that an angel gets its wings.  Nah, that ain’t true.  When Irish eyes are smiling, it means that someone clapped to keep Tinkerbell alive.  That’s a lie too.  Maybe it’s when Irish eyes are smiling, a clipped coupon gets doubled?  That’d be cool, but probably not right either Read more

I love the flavor of teriyaki.  It’s a nice and safe choice – when it comes to all kinds of things.  Stir fry.  Beef jerky. Marinades for pork and chicken.  I love it when making chicken fried rice.  If I go to a Chinese restaurant and there isn’t a clear choice, teriyaki it is! So I Read more

I feel very lucky that my kids aren’t picky eaters.  Certainly, they have their preferences – they all love apples, but don’t care for pears.  And they’ll always choose watermelon over cauliflower.  But, really, they eat almost anything that I put in front of them.  They’ll eat all kinds of fruits.  And meats.  And vegetables Read more

We’ve recently cut quite a few things from our diet in order to identify any food sensitivities a couple of my kids might have.  It’s a long process of eliminating a lot of foods, then adding them back in one-by-one to see if there’s any impact.  The ingredient that I miss the most?  Tomatoes! I Read more

I love Stuffed Peppers!  Don’t you?  They’re not too complicated to make (although they do have a few steps to them), but they aren’t the most young kid-friendly.  For a couple of reasons: They’re a little difficult to cut even if the pepper is tender AND 1 pepper might be too much for a young Read more

There’s a group of people out there that would try to convince you that soups are meant for your winter menu.  As in, not meant for your spring or summer menu.  Maybe fall, but definitely not spring or summer. They are also the same people who would also try to convince you that soups are Read more