I hope you are in the midst of a fabulous holiday weekend.  I am taking my relaxing very seriously if you must know ;).  My older daughter came home from Dallas and accompanied my husband and me to our friends' house in Montecito for a few days and other than writing this blog post, I have checked ...

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I was working on a another post for this week until I received an email from my editor with my manuscript attached.  She passed the baton to me, so to speak, and now it's my turn to edit.  I need to work on edits pretty hard core in the short term because I am going away for July 4th weekend and ...

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Happy Summer, officially! Today is the day I make lots of lists of things I want to accomplish over the next two months since my cooking class schedule is super light.  Two months from now, I will look back on said list and wonder where the time went and how is it possible that I got none of it done ...

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Happy Weekend and Happy (almost) Summer!  I just landed in Pittsburgh to visit my younger daughter who has an internship here for the summer.  I’ve only been to Pittsburgh twice before, and very briefly, so I’m excited to spend a few days alone with her in the city.  Because I am here for Father's ...

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It's Memorial Day weekend and I always feel very pensive and grateful during this holiday.  And I always feel a bit sad, too.  I know a lot of us are excited to have an extra day off, but I am taking some time to reflect on the ultimate sacrifice many of our servicemen and women made to allow us the ...

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Memorial Day weekend is next weekend and I am stunned.  Stunned.  Oh this year is slipping between my fingers.  But the thought of summer being so close is beyond exciting to me!   Someone asked me in my class the other day what is the first step I take when I sit down to make my dinner planner for ...

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To all my online cooking class students, the new class has been uploaded and is now accessible.  It has been a huge hit in my in-person classes so far.  You're going to love it all!!  Click here if you'd like more information about taking my classes online. My husband's birthday was a few days ago ...

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I was so out of it when I was creating last week's dinner planner, that Cinco de Mayo was not on my radar for this Sunday.  Whoops!  As you know, I have soooo many delicious and healthy-ish Mexican recipes, from red and green enchiladas, to this chopped salad and this Mexican Cobb, and Caldo ...

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Ok, this is it.  Manuscript is due this week and then regular programming will resume.  I'll start filming YouTube videos, grocery store stories, Friday Favorites, etc. Not all at once, but I'll get back on track!  Writing a book and work full time is no joke OMG!  In the meantime, here's your ...

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Happy Holiday weekend!  I hope you are going to have a relaxing few days.  Perhaps some of you are on spring break.  I am in the home stretch of my manuscript,  still working full-time and I have a television appearance today, sooooo I am only doing desserts for the holiday this year.  My segment on ...

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