Risotto is not meant to be feared, but loved. It does however take a little planning because once you add the arborio rice to the pot, you cannot walk away. Here some examples of when not to make risotto for dinner. The night your kid needs help paper mache-ing their mountain for a landform project. […]
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Cinnamon Ice Cream
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Well, as the memes have said, the 500 days of January have come to an end. We head to February, the month of love, chocolate, date nights, pancakes, Mardi Gras, and ice cream. That’s right, ice cream. Today is the National Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast […]
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January Recap
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. About two weeks ago there was snow in the forecast. Glorious, wonderful snow. And guess what? I know you will be stunned. It. Freakin’. Rained. On. My. Snow. Day. I just played along. If you follow me on instagram, you saw me pretending along on the […]
Best Of: Comfort Food Essentials
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Here is a quick grocery guide and some of my favorite kitchen tools for preparing this month’s comfort food recipes. Cool Things in the Kitchen: Porcelain Ramekins – these a great for soup of any kind, but particularly great for onion soup; I also use them […]
Classic Brandy Cocktails
I have had fun focusing on some of my favorite comfort foods, and I know it’s not lost on anyone that three soup recipes this month (here, here, and here) called for brandy as an ingredient. You made the soups, now what to do you do with the rest of the brandy? These are two […]
Chicken Pot Pie Soup
For those lucky souls that following me on instagram, this past Saturday, they experienced “scenes from a very weird snow day.” It was in fact, not a snow day. The storm that was going to bring snow was a bust in the morning, and by afternoon, it did bring the expected ice (which as a […]
No Rules, Just Nachos
Please raise your hand if you like #tacotuesday. Oh, good, I see the majority of you do. We love #tacotuesday in our house – for several reasons. The first, well, tacos or nachos, need I say more. Second, it really easy, and lastly, it’s consistent, the boys and I can count on it every Tuesday. […]
Bolognese, My Way
I am not Italian. I have no rights. I like pasta with red sauce, rosé sauce, vodka, white, alfredo, pesto, butter, olive oil, garlic. You catch my drift. I didn’t grow up with sauce on the stove on Sundays. I grew up with a Pace (do you remember Pace, before Sam’s Club, BJ’s, and Costco?) […]
Chef’s Onion Soup
There are few things in life more comforting than a bowl of soup. When school closed early this past week because of pending snow, I could only think of two things. Lies. Three things. Fresh bread, onion soup, and I need to create my top ten (or top whatever number it may actually be) snow […]
Home Fries
The Christmas tree is down, the nativity packed away. The gifts have been put in their new homes, one thing I can still count on is the Legos taking over the dining room table. The cozy, intimate setting I created for Christmas is gone. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t go stark until March. There […]