As a wife, a mom of two school-age children, and a personal chef (also known as a professional meal prepper), I am BUSY. I am on the PTA board, homeroom mom, soccer mom, basketball mom, summer swim mom, troop...
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? The date and the teams are set all, now it's time to plan the Super Bowl Par-tey!
Every since I can remember, Super Bowl Sunday was a big to-do in our house. Growing up,...
"Can we please evacuate? PLEASE!!!" I begged my husband. "I'm so over Florida!" I was five months pregnant, and we had just moved across the country to Jacksonville less than a month before. Hurricane Matthew was pounding Haiti, and...
Independence Day has always been one of my favorite holidays. When I was young, the Fourth of July was also my grandmother's birthday, so, after a birthday dinner and cake, we would have mini fireworks in the driveway and buckets of...
Lunch is definitely one of my favorite meals of the day! By the time 11:00 am rolls around, I am ready for something yummy, but I am always disappointed when I open my refrigerator door. I spend a lot...
As room mom for my son's Kindergarten class, I am in charge of organizing the Halloween party fall centers in his classroom. Due to allergies and anal moms nutritionally conscious parents, I am having to come up with a list of treats...
When we lived in Europe, every Daycare (Crèche) I saw had an on-site kitchen. The kitchen had two proposes. Primarily it was to make food for the children. I remember walking into our son’s crèche and smelling leeks sautéing...
My love affair with lunch started innocently enough. A brief reprieve to eat with two hands while the baby napped. The one meal of the day that I got to eat whatever I wanted. A few glorious minutes where...
My fantasies in the first month of my 33rd year aren’t about world travel, glamorous living, or fine dining. I’m daydreaming about having my mom come visit and nurse my family back to health.
“What would Mom do if she...
We’re at the peak of citrus season here in Florida, which means lemons, oranges, limes, and other citrus fruits are in abundance.
If you’re fortunate enough to nurture a citrus tree — or have a friend or neighbor who does...
I am a food-loving, cooking-calms-me, enjoy-a-great-new-restaurant kinda gal. Cooking calms my soul, and I know not everyone feels this way. Heck, I even have days where I’m just a woman staring at a fridge, asking it to make me...
We’ve all been there--it’s been a long summer day, you either just got home from work or swim practice and you have ravenous children asking WHAT ARE WE GOING TO EAT?!? Summertime can easily put a dent in the...