Dinner Planner – Week of April 6, 2020

I want to just come right out and thank my family for knowing these times require patience, teamwork, and a shift in expectations.  I want to thank my readers, students, social media followers, and community members for showing up here, on my social accounts, to my Instagram lives, and via email with a positive attitude, […]

Dinner Planner – Week of March 30th, 2020

Hello, dear friends.  In these confusing and uncertain times, there are bright spots.  For me, I am enjoying the quality time with my family, especially meal time where we are connecting in such a special way.  I am also blown away by the community that I have between my social media channels, online and in-person […]

Dinner Planner – Week of February 10th, 2020

  Hello, hello!!  I hope you are all doing well and staying healthy.  This has been a ROUGH winter so far!!  Some administrative business first – my online cooking class students – I am doing our monthly Facebook LIVE Saturday, February 8th at 9:30 am PST/12:30 pm EST.  I’ll be in my sweats with no […]

Thai Kabocha Squash Soup Recipe

    One of my goals in creating recipes to teach in my classes is to introduce my students to healthy, whole ingredients that they don’t know what to do with.  I used to be really intimidated by many types of produce and whole grains until I just decided to buy them and play with […]

Dinner Planner – Week of January 27th, 2020

I had a long but great week!  Something that I will share with you and only you since you are reading this is that I just filmed a few on-demand classes for the Food Network Kitchen App!!  I mean, talk about a dream come true!  Teaching healthy recipes is my bread and butter, so to […]