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 23rd, 2020

If we don’t have our health and safety, we have nothing.  We will get through this, I am sure. I am looking for the positive in all this and not looking too far forward.  I am trying not to overthink the “what ifs” because that will cause me to lose sleep and that’s going to […]

Deconstructed Stuffed Cabbage Casserole Recipe

    Ok, I’m going to come right out and say it – I’m not great at St. Patrick’s Day.  I am not a corned beef girl.  Cabbage, yes.  Irish soda bread, ok (my recipe is great though!) Irish cream, not so much.  When my kids were wee ones, I took advantage of the holiday […]

Poblano Potato-Leek Soup Recipe

    I have been on a major soup kick this season.  I have always made soup once during the week and once on the weekend during the school year.  I am now making soup at least three times a week and we are all loving it.  I also order soup when I go out […]

Dinner Planner – Week of February 24th, 2020

This week is the beginning of Lent.  My mother used to make us give up something for the 40 days of Lent.  We thought we were funny by saying we’d give up liver (ugh, she actually made it!) or boiled Brussels sprouts. After a lot of back and forth, my mother would ask us to […]