I love menu planning. I think I host dinner parties just so I can figure out what to serve. I pour through cookbooks, magazines, online sites, putting various elements together to create the perfect meal. I like balance – sweet/sour, heavy/light, complex/simple. Usually, I jot everything down on a piece of paper, run it by [...]
Coach’s gifts for soccer were easy this year – the team name was the Whoopie Pies and once I saw the new Whoopie Pies: Dozens of Mix ‘em, Match ‘em, Eat ‘em up recipes by Sarah Billingsley and Amy Treadwell, I had my plan in place. A copy of the book for each coach, along [...]
From La Petite Soiree, hosted by Kristen of Dine & Dish, Stephania of Clever Girls Collective, Jane from This Week for Dinner, and Helene of Tartelette, I picked up the new cookbook from Three Many Cooks, Perfect One Dish Dinners by Pam Anderson. The cookbook was a generous gift, but at the moment, I am [...]
Last month, Jane from This Week for Dinner, suggested I try a new product from Tortilla Land, uncooked corn and flour tortillas, available at CostCo. We are a tortilla eating family, especially on Taco Night. And tortillas are the last thing I think about when getting dinner ready, reaching for a package of pre-made/pre-cooked tortillas, [...]
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to continue to eat better. Another was to only do product reviews for products I have used and really liked. Fortunately, today, those two resolutions can be together in one post! Stober Farms sent me a container of their Golden Flax Seed, a cold-milled flax which preserves the [...]
Not sure how it works at your house, but pancakes and waffles are a big deal around here. I think my kids would probably have them every day of the week, they love them so! A few years ago, I was introduced to the Danish treat of Aebleskiver, (also written as Ebleskiver) a round puffed-pancake. [...]
Coconut Water A few weeks ago, while helping Karen set up her Worm Composter, she told me about Coconut Water, a newish product now available in grocery stores around town. And on the plane last week to Vancouver, I read an article in Hemisphere’s Magazine about Coconut Water. This week, while grocery shopping at Whole [...]
