I am visiting my older daughter in Dallas for a nice mother-daughter weekend!  I hope you all have a lovely Easter if you are celebrating.  If you are looking for some Easter menu inspiration, check out last week’s dinner planner!  Here’s your dinner planner for the week: Continue reading

It’s all about Passover on Wednesday night and Easter next Sunday! See my suggestions if you still need recipe ideas.  I have already started making my desserts!  On another note, if you take my monthly online cooking class, the April class will be uploaded this weekend!  If you are not a monthly subscriber, you should be!  The classes are informative and fun and you watch on your own time.  Here’s the menu for April:

Chipotle Tomato Bisque

Chopped Salad with Jicama and Pineapple

Grain-Free Mexican Chocolate Skillet Cookie

One Pan Green Enchilada Skillet

Sheet Pan Quesadilla

 

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Happy Spring!! I am currently figuring out my Passover menu and I’ll give you some recipe links next week.  I am not going to my Mom’s for Easter this year, but I will provide you with ideas for both holidays.  My biggest piece of advice if you are hosting any holiday is to commit to a menu as soon as possible.  I know you have a lot of options and that it can feel overwhelming deciding on what to make, but just decide and move on! Here’s your dinner planner for the week: Continue reading

Happy Spring! My daughter Anna is coming home this weekend for a visit and I am so excited! I am sure she will help with Monday’s Instagram live.  Just like old times!  😉 Also, I am doing a virtual event this Friday, March 24th at 11:00 am PT with an Entertaining with Ease theme.  My friend Jeanne Rosner is hosting on her platform, Soul Food Salon. Check out her website or Instagram for details on how to register.  It’s going to be fun!  Here’s your dinner planner for the week: Continue reading

I say this every year, but St. Patrick’s Day is not only a day to pay respects to a saint, if that’s your culture, but it’s an opportunity. The opportunity is to make GREEN food because it’s acceptable even for green food-haters.  Get out the blender and start blending spinach into your family’s pancakes and muffins, avocado into their smoothies, and go ahead and make a chopped salad with every green vegetable you can get your hands on.  More ideas below! Also, in Monday’s newsletter, I am sharing some fabulous new finds. The newsletter is FREE!  Here’s your dinner planner for the week: Continue reading

If you take my online monthly cooking class, the March class is up and the theme is all-new recipes for Easter and Passover.  Yes, the recipes work for both holidays!! Here are the recipes covered:

Crustless Spinach-feta Pie (not a frittata), Honey-Lemon Roast Chicken with Thyme, Roasted Carrots with Calabrian Chile Yogurt and Mint, Wedge Salad with an Herby Dressing, and Flourless Brownie Cookies

As always, one of the things I strive to do is provide swaps for almost everything. I even provided a plant-based swap for the chicken (and it’s not fake chicken!) If you are allergic or intolerant to an ingredient for which I did not list a sub, ask me and I’ll give you a recommendation.

Also, if you live close to Manhattan Beach, please come join me at Pages Bookstore the evening of Tuesday, March 7th!  I am hosting best-selling author Rebecca Serle for the paperback launch of her delightful book, One Italian Summer. We’ll have a book chat and then meet all of you!! Tickets available here. Here’s your dinner planner for the week: Continue reading

The unseasonable cold temps and rain in Southern California has had us all talking nonstop about the weather.  NON. STOP.  I will not be following this dinner planner this week. Instead, Hubs and I decided we will be having soup every single night!!  If you take my online monthly cooking class, it is being uploaded on March 1.  The menu is perfect for Easter AND Passover!!  Here’s your dinner planner for the week: Continue reading

If this is a long holiday weekend for you, I hope you are enjoying it so far! I wanted to give you a heads-up to save the date in your calendar – if you take my online monthly cooking class, my live office hours will be this Wednesday at 12:00 pm PT/3:00 pm ET.  Even if you haven’t viewed the February class, you are welcome to join the zoom and ask me anything or just hear what other students want to talk about.

ALSO, if you live locally, I am hosting a discussion with best-selling author Rebecca Serle at Pages Bookstore in Manhattan Beach on Tuesday, March 7th at 6:30 pm.  Her book One Italian Summer will be released in paperback so come join us for prosecco and a lively chat! Here’s your dinner planner for the week: Continue reading