Dinner Planner – Week of September 7, 2020

This Labor Day weekend is very different from all past LDW’s.  I have no kids going to school, but instead participating in school at home.  No lunches to make at 6:00 am.  No breakfasts to prep in advance.  No in-person cooking classes to resume after a summer break.  It doesn’t feel like the “fresh start” […]

Dinner Planner – Week of August 31st, 2020

My dear friends, it was not until I sat down to create this week’s dinner planner that I realized I never published a dinner planner LAST WEEK!  In all the years I have done this, I have never actually completely forgotten to press “publish.”  You know I was at my mother’s house last week with […]

Dinner Planner – Week of August 17, 2020

I just arrived in Dallas for my daughter’s postponed college commencement.  I am very happy for her that she will be able to have her once in a lifetime event, even though it’s not exactly how we all thought it would happen.  I’ll be here for less than 24 hours and then it’s family time […]

Pizza Dough Recipe

I’ve gone through many pizza phases in my life (I eat it often then I don’t and so on) and where I acknowledge that it is not a health food, I really do enjoy it.  Even if the dough is gluten-free or made with whole wheat flour, flour is flour and will spike your blood […]

Dinner Planner – Week of August 3rd, 2020

Just hanging out here in California, friends.  Just doing my best to stay healthy and sane.  That’s about all I’ve got.  If you take my monthly online cooking classes, I am doing another FB live with you Saturday (August 1) at 10:00 am PT!  I am looking forward to our socially distant time together.  One […]