Recipes
The Only Way To A Happy Thanksgiving- Missytaters
Big families are a mixed blessing for someone like me. Do I love that I am blessed with a huge, amazing family? Of course. That we are all great cooks? Even better. But I secretly wish I was going to be able to cook the whole meal myself…. I know-downright selfish. But I can’t help [...]
I know it is Cinco de Mayo, but all I can think about is dried cherries….
I know EXACTLY when my obsession with dried cherries began. Talk about love that is immediate and unending. I have this fantastic little habit of finding restaurants I love and hoarding them. Not sharing. Not taking friends. Just me and a book. For a while when I was working in Pleasanton, Eddie Papa’s was that place. I [...]
Leaves Changing Color-Time for Lasagna =)
I can’t think of another time of year I love this much-the leaves change, my container garden isn’t in danger of death by overexposure or my lack of watering it, and I can make something I adore like my Roasted Chicken and Pesto Lasagna. There are many things I learned how to make by covertly [...]
What?! Never Heard of Cowgirl Creamery?!!
I actually almost started to feel bad for those of you that aren’t familiar with Cowgirl Creamery, but then I remembered the light that came into my life during “April in Carneros” 2008. What a day! So many great wineries to be introduced to that day, then at one tasting I stumbled upon what would [...]
Sautéed Chicken with Mashers and Gravy
Please. Hear me out. Before this post gets flagged for the unoriginal use of packaged gravy-let me explain. Okay, so you can’t flag a post I wrote on my own site-but you know what I mean. We all grew up in an alternate universe from the one we now live in. Now-we are young, urban, [...]
