Dinner Planner – Week of May 9, 2022

In advance of Mother’s Day, Happy Mother’s Day to anyone who is a mother or mother-to-be!  If you are missing your mom this weekend, I am holding space in my heart for you.  I know how hard it is to lose a parent. If you need to nudge your loved ones to make you something […]

Zuppa Toscana Recipe

I love eating something in a restaurant and challenging myself to make the same dish at home. Sometimes I try to “clean it up,” or sometimes I just like to make it more my style with ingredients I like better. I very often get requests or suggestions from my students such as, “I had this […]

Thanksgiving Leftovers Salad with Cranberry Sauce Vinaigrette Recipe

Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, we have our leftovers traditions.  For breakfast, my daughters dig into pie and Hubs toasts leftover cornbread to eat with coffee.  I do a scramble of chopped leftovers and tofu.  Then lunch is some sort of chopped leftovers salad with or without a stuffing waffle (take stuffing and […]

Roasted Vegetables with Carrot Romesco Sauce Recipe

If you are hosting Thanksgiving or you are going to a potluck and need a new dish, I’ve got you covered.  First off, I must mention that my new updated 2022 Thanksgiving ebook is available!!  It has 10 new recipes from last year’s ebook with a total of OVER 100 recipes in one PDF with […]

Planning a Happy Thanksgiving 2021 – 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 and […]