Is it one thousand degrees where you are?

OK, so maybe it’s not 1000° here, but it is certainly well over 100° and has been for many days and most likely will be for many more – like until after Halloween. If I don’t get the boys out to the park or the zoo before 10am, then we aren’t going.  We spend a [...]

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Moroccan Chicken and Couscous

I had clients to see this afternoon and one of my most favorite people on the planet was going to watch the boys. So I threw together a quick dinner for them (and so I wouldn’t have to cook when I got home!)  There was even enough left to jazz up the boys’ lunches for [...]

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Single Girl Cooking School: Manicotti

I have a very dear friend who we’ll call “Lolly.” (That’s what my boys call her, Aunt Lolly.) We’ve been friends since the first grade. I will NOT calculate how many years that has been. She is beautiful and smart and her family is super duper fun. And, for some reason, she’s also single. Do [...]

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More Food to Share

Another meal I made to take to my grandmother…easy to double, easy to freeze, easy to make, easy to share.  Really, you should have this in your repertoire. This is so quick to make, I didn’t even have time to take any proper photos.  Somehow I managed to click some shots as I was packaging [...]

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“Real Chickens” as my mother would say…

I have to explain a little something about my mother.  For as long as I can remember, she’s been making up terms for things.  She doesn’t invent new words, it’s more like she reassigns a definition to words we already know.  My father used to say he was going to start keeping a list of [...]

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When “clean” doesn’t really mean “clean.”

I have several other posts half-finished and waiting on photos…roasted chicken and the yogurt update…they are coming.  But I wanted to share this link about supermarket chickens.  Since we are heading out to a nearby farm to pick up chickens this weekend, the article seemed timely.  (thanks to Jennifer, my parents’ neighbor, for sending it [...]

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Left-over Chicken

So remember the roasted chickens from Saturday?  There were quite a bit of leftovers.  Yesterday was beautiful and we were all kind of wanting a picnic dinner in the park.  So, I used the March issue of “Cooking Light” to help me do something with cooked chicken: Spicy Asian Noodles with Chicken. Spicy?  Not so [...]

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Weekend meal time examined…

So, I’m always kind of thinking about meal-time in one way or another.  Are we out of (fill in the blank)?  Did I remember to lay the chicken out to defrost?  If I Twitter for another 20 minutes, will I still have dinner ready when my husband gets home from work? The weekends are usually [...]

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