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 […]
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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 […]