Marinara Sauce

This is another great, basic recipe from Giada De Laurentiis’ Everyday Italian cookbook. (I checked it out of the library after I returned Lindsay’s copy!) She uses it as a base sauce for other recipes, but it is also quite yummy on it’s own. I doubled the recipe and froze the sauce in 2-cup portions.
1/2 [...]

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Pizza Rolls

This has become one of our favorite lunch, snack, easy dinner items. Sooooo easy to make. Plus, they freeze really nicely – I keep a bag of them in the freezer most of the time, so we can pull a few out and pop them straight into the toaster oven when we need them.
1 loaf [...]

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Eton Mess

My sister, living the glam life in London, emailed me the following recipe this morning. Her breakfast is a far cry from the cold cheerios we are eating around here this morning! Sounds quite yummy though – perhaps we could try it as a dessert instead of breakfast?
“You should try this. It is really [...]

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Dump Chicken

It doesn’t sound very tasty, does it? But trust me, these “dump” chicken recipes make life sooooo much easier. And that is a sweet thing indeed.
The basic concept is this: take some chicken and a few other simple ingredients, dump them together in a crockpot or baking dish, and forget about dinner until it is [...]

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Taking Inventory

As we are quickly working our way through summer, I have started thinking about restocking the freezer with meals ready to go once the school year starts up. The first step in that was to take inventory of exactly what there is in the freezer already. We actually have quite a bit more than I [...]

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Empanadas – take 2

A while back, Raymond came home from a faculty meeting raving about the empanadas a collegue had brought to school. If I didn’t already know he liked my version, I might have been offended when, after going on and on and on about how wonderful they were, he added “They are NOTHING like the ones [...]

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Linguine with Tomatoes and Basil – part 2

We had friends over for dinner last night, and I made my mother’s Linguine with Tomatoes and Basil. I have always heard that you should not make a new recipe when you are having company – stick with something you know – and yet I ALWAYS seem to try something new for guests. It’s a [...]

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Salad Days

Summer can be a difficult time for me, cooking-wise. I have plenty of hearty, stick to your ribs, warm you up kinds of meals. But in summer, even though I am still always hungry, I have a really hard time deciding on something I WANT to eat.
I’m not much of a salad person, but [...]

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Motivation

Just to give me a little more motivation to lose weight, it now looks like there is a direct correlation between belly fat in your 40’s and a dramatically increased risk of dementia later in life. Seems even for people of normal weight, carrying fat around the belly ups the risk of dementia pretty significantly. [...]

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Our first Co-Op Box!

We picked up our first organic produce box through the Savannah Co-Op today. This is such a great program, and I am so excited to have joined! It was started by a group of moms who wanted to give thier families organic food, but couldn’t afford the crazy high prices for organics in the grocery [...]

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