Planning a Happy Thanksgiving 2016 – 3 Weeks and Counting!

[one-third-first][/one-third-first][one-third][/one-third][one-third][/one-third] This post has been edited from the one originally published on Thursday, November 3, 2011. If you followed the advice in my post last Thursday, perhaps you now have a general idea of how many guests you will be hosting on Thanksgiving.  If not, it’s time to get on the phone and do some inviting! […]

Dinner Planner: Week of October 31st

I will admit, I was a lazy bones about dinner last week.  My husband was out of town the entire week, I had two birthday celebrations and I taught a class one evening.  So, Mr. Picky ate a few leftovers and random dinners like pasta with meat sauce one night.  But yesterday the South Korean […]

Planning a Happy Thanksgiving 2016 – 4 Weeks and Counting!

This post has been edited from the original, which was published on October 27, 2011. Can you believe what today is?  It is the beginning of the countdown!!  Thanksgiving is 4 weeks from today!  No need to panic, friends.  We’re going to have some fun over the next month!  Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I […]

Dinner Planner: Week of October 17th

I am feeling a little holiday-ed out today, and I am grateful for a short break before Halloween comes around.  Do you have your costume yet?  I just put mine together.  Stay tuned! I am going to Dallas this week to teach a class and the bonus is I get to see my daughters, too.  My […]

Five Friday Favorites- 9.2.16

Labor Day weekend is always like pressing a reset button.  The kids are back to school, I am resuming a full teaching schedule, and my eating goes back to normal, balanced meals (as opposed to haphazard grazing zucchini bread and olives and nectarines instead of a proper dinner.)  For those of you who take my […]