Goodbye, summer! Now that it’s October, fall has really kicked in. We’ve put our shorts away, gotten the kids in school, started raking leaves and we now see Halloween decorations everywhere. It’s a time of transitions, and fall has a way of teaching us with some beautiful symbols. Bringing it in The harvest time is a reminder that we reap […]
Pollo Parmigiana
No need to be picky about this Italian chicken My poor, sweet mom. When I was growing up, she tried so hard to please everyone in the kitchen. After my brother had a serious illness as a small child, he got kind of picky with food. But my mom was so glad that he was eating at all that she […]
Chicken Stroganoff
I don’t know why I am so fortunate to have a certain overly opinionated and rather stubborn child that seems to be dictating the dinner menu around our house as of late. She has not only provided me with a written copy of her latest list of things she refuses to partake of, but she then goes beyond the call […]
Anything but predictable
I may have mentioned on several occasions that I seldom embrace planning dinner ahead of time. I have a poor attitude about it. Between having to juggle the schedules of several kids and having a career that requires me to anticipate and manage a multitude of habitually evolving variables, I feel entitled to not exerting my brain too much over […]