While I don’t host Thanksgiving, I do enjoy setting a lovely table for special occasions, and so I give you this elegant table scape. I hope you are inspired for Monday night dinner, book club, Friendsgiving, or Thanksgiving. Enjoy! For those playing along, you may remember seeing this pics on instagram earlier this fall of […]
Author: a chef's wife
A Month Of Thanks
Friends – November is upon us. It goes like this. Halloween just wrapped. The jack-o-lanterns are molding over. And the outside plants are going to the wayside. Even if you plant kale or spinach or mums. It’s all questionable. LEGO and Target send the catalogs. You trace a hand for a turkey decoration on the […]
Spicy Tomato Soup
And just like that October went by in a blink of an eye. The first two months of school are so fast and furious, only to land us all in faster and more furious. I actually now see how that movie series is up to episode 9. Basketball started this week, and with that we […]
Butternut Squash Soup
It’s sweata weatha, or in my case hooded sweatshirt weather, and SOUPS ON! This is an all time fave. I like it because it’s easy enough to be made on a week night, it’s great by the fire and watching a movie on Saturday night, makes great leftovers for lunch, and in the future, I […]
Friday. We made it.
Dear Friends, I would like to congratulate you on arriving to Friday in one piece. May your children arrive to school safely via the bus, or carpool, or their own God given legs, and may you just have a hot cup of coffee and breathe deeply because it’s FRIDAY, and we made it. While surviving […]
What’s Busy?
Last week the following was a repetitive conversation. Friend, teacher, administrator from the boys’ school. “Hey, how was summer?” Me, on autopilot, “Busy.” Brief pause while I self correct to, “Good, but busy.” I want to crawl out of my skin just typing it, let alone reliving the many conversations that went just like that. […]
Tailgating Subs, My Way
It’s here! Ravens’ first preseason game. Let football, and tailgating begin. I love how the season kinda sneaks up, and then the next thing you know it’s Fireball and Bud Light, and food and fun, and family and friends, and if the gods are with us a few touchdowns in there. I love this sammy […]
Tropical Fruit with Shrimp
I have the August blues. You know the ones. The school supply list, the uniforms, the shoes you don’t want to buy because by Thanksgiving they won’t fit. Our school calendar came home yesterday and within fifteen minutes I was on Christmas break. I. AM. NOT. READY. I had to bring summer back! So I […]
Feelin’ It Friday V
We are really in the thick of summer. I was just looking at our wish list, and thinking what have been up to? Lots of pool time, so in the next few weeks some adventures on the horizon. This week we was full of music and arts. I am feelin’ the movie releases this summer!Toy […]
Bacon Asparagus Pasta
I grew up thinking pasta was served two ways – spaghetti dinner and the very occasional (maybe only once a year) lasagna and stuffed shells. I really didn’t know that pasta was more then just a vehicle for tomato sauce and served with a side of garlic bread. What is wrong with that? Absolutely nothing. […]