A Warm Salad For Brunch (And To Win Friends)
#BrunchWeek continues with a slew of giveaways and even more delicious recipes. Today I’m bringing you a warm salad recipe that you can serve for brunch (or anytime!).
Read More...Healthy Breakfast Ideas, Please
Coming up with healthy breakfast ideas that are easy to make can be a challenge. This protein-packed simple Breakfast Guacamole is as delicious as it is easy to make.
Read More...A Welsh Rarebit Recipe As My Worlds Collide
What do Bill Maher, Gary Hirshberg and a Welsh Rarebit Recipe have in common? Find out here! Earlier this week I asked for your thoughts on the meaning of the word natural when it comes to food labeling. The inspiration for the question is of
Read More...Guest Post: The Mrs, Her Mr and Rootbeer Pulled Pork
<Note from Christine: This was not originally meant to be a Guest Post Swap. It was originally a gift of a post from The Mrs to me for use after my sweet baby girl was born. But I hoarded it, waiting for just the right super-crazy time. In that hoarding period The Mrs had her [...]
Read More...Some Pretty Tea Sandwiches for Some Pretty Special Teachers
Do you ever go through a day and realize that the only adult you’ve spoken to is the cashier at the grocery store? Two days a week for the past 1.5 years I’ve managed to avoid this experience. On those days, I drop J off at Kids Gym for a few hours. During the drop-off [...]
Read More...Use Booze: A Port Reduction to Adult-It-Up
My little J is not interested in sauces: He does not want any liquid to touch his food (except maple syrup, which he will use to drench anything, even broccoli!). He does not like dips (unless he’s dipping his fingers in ketchup and then putting them in his mouth for a suck). Any kind of [...]
Read More...Wake up to a Mediterranean Sandwich (Recipe from the Falcon Lake Deli)
I just saw a Subway billboard that read, “A great sub ahead of time! Now open at 7am.” I wondered, “Who wants a sub at 7am???” Then I remembered the first Saturday I waited tables at my parents’ Falcon Lake Deli. They wanted me there at 9am. I didn’t have a clue why they needed [...]
Read More...When Does Food Taste THE BEST? Part 5: When Someone Else Does the Cooking
My mom says that food tastes better when somebody else makes it. She loves cooking but she also loves eating. Getting to eat someone else’s creation is a treat. Last weekend I pondered this as I bit into a breakfast egg wrap at my parents’ holiday kitchen. I make egg wraps all the time and [...]
Read More...When Does Food Taste THE BEST? Part 2: The Mystery of the Chicken Sandwich
Saturday I tasted a sandwich that puzzled me. It was the best one I’d ever eaten and yet I couldn’t detect anything particularly special about it. My fingers tugged at cling film as my lips rested on a brown bun. My teeth crumbled cheese as my tongue prodded roast chicken. Everything slid together and yet [...]
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