I love Sundays when I don’t have anything going on. After church, I can just chill at the house and enjoy my day watching an NCIS marathon on USA Network. (I can’t get enough of that Leroy Jethro Gibbs.) Or I’ll cut out coupons and organize them in my binder. (I’ve become really lazy with couponing. Now I [...]
Chicken Club Caesar Salad
February 21, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
Last week I realized that I need to re-think my approach to Meatless Mondays. I usually don’t jump on bandwagons especially when it comes to my food, but Meatless Mondays sounded like an intriguing challenge. I made Caesar salad for a friend’s bridal shower luncheon–a salad I hadn’t made in almost a year. The guests at the shower loved [...]
Red Velvet Shortbread Hearts
February 13, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
I live in a male dominated household. There’s nothing frilly, pink or cutsie laying around here. It’s all Power Rangers, Avengers and basketball. Even I wear warm-up pants, a t-shirt and sneakers everyday. So when my rough and tumble sons asked me to make them cookies for Valentine’s Day I was confused. Of course they [...]
Bacon Cheeseburger Soup with Crispy Potato Croutons
February 1, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
Every month or so I do a cooking segment on Charlotte Today, a live local entertainment and lifestyle show. My features a recipe for an obscure food holiday celebrated that month. Last week was Soup Week and I thought a bacon cheeseburger soup topped with fried potato cubes would be fun. I’d never made this soup, but it sounded really good in my [...]
Homemade Potato Tots
January 18, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
With the new year upon us, many people have made resolutions that involve some kind of food restriction. I’m not one of those people. As a big time foodie, I eat whatever I want, whenever I want. However, I do walk on my treadmill everyday to counteract all the deliciousness I like to enjoy. When I turned 40 I [...]
Apple Fries
January 4, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
My husband and I were so excited about taking our kids to Disney World for the first time during Christmas. We hadn’t been to the Magic Kingdom since our honeymoon thirteen years ago. We had a lot of fun making our own magic then. (Wink. Wink.) We planned our family trip for several months and didn’t tell our kids. [...]
Cherry Almond Meringue Cookies
December 24, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
It’s funny how you can go away on vacation to relax and unwind, only to return home more tired than you were when you left. My family and I just spent a week vacationing in Kissimmee, Florida. And I’m exhausted. I have two boys who think rest is for chumps. They dragged me and my husband to Disney World, Legoland, [...]
Not PawPaw’s Fruitcake
December 5, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Every Christmas my husband’s grandfather invited his family to partake of his treasured fruitcake. And every year they declined his generous offer. At first PawPaw was met with polite refusals, such as “No, thank you” or ”Maybe later.” But after 10 years of the same cake the cordial declinations turned ugly. “No, thank you” and “Maybe later” transformed [...]
Turkey BLC (Bacon, Lettuce and Cranberry)
November 25, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it’s all about the food (and being thankful, of course.) It’s the only time of year when eating is not plagued with guilt and dietary restrictions. Even the self-proclaimed vegetarians of the family race to the table to devour the prized roasted turkey. Thanksgiving is like the Olympics for me–I spend [...]
Citrus-Brined Roast Chicken
November 16, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
For the past two weeks I have been participating in the National Novel Writing Month (aka nanowrimo) challenge, which is writing a 50,000 word rough draft for a novel during the month of Novemeber. I’m always up for a good challenge so nanowrimo seemed right up my ally, even though I’ve never written a novel [...]