On my last meal plan, I linked to Ina Garten’s Chicken Pot Pie, a favorite among my kids. I do tend to chuckle a bit though when I’m scrolling through her recipe and see her steps for ‘making your own puff pastry’. This seems a lovely thing to know how to do, along with making all […]
Hi Foodie Friends, As promised, here is the first installment of my Weekly Meal Plans. I hope to find some very interesting and creative way to neatly post these with boxes and graphics. Until then I will do it the old fashioned way with links and old photos. I am excited to dig through THO archives […]
If you’ve spent a nano-second reading this blog, you know that I’m passionate about good food, and love learning and coming up with original recipes. And you also know that I have twin babies. So we’ve simplified a lot of things this year and our dinners are no exception. The benefit for you is we’ve […]
First, I just need to make an announcement that a new baby has joined our family: She’s so shiny, right? The twins weren’t the only thing keeping me from blogging here. Our old stove had all but a tiny burner die right around Christmas, and even though I got this one back then it took […]
Sometimes our most definitive moments are loud – a birth, a death, an accident, a promotion. But sometimes they happen quietly, in the smallest of spaces between otherwise ordinary moments. I was thinking about this the other day as I was giving our baby Ronan a bath. About the path that led me to him, […]
I am excited for spring just about on every level, but there is one thing about the cold weather that I don’t mind holding on to and dragging into spring with us: comfort food. Soup tops the list of comfort food for me, followed closely by anything with potatoes, so really this Loaded Baked Potato […]
Image taken from Mari Andrews on Instagram (@bymariandrews) Recently, as I shuttled my new babies down to Boston for a checkup, I listened to a podcast of writers discuss how social media is changing us, changing the way we live. One of the writers on the podcast was Dani Shapiro, whose memoir Slow Motion, about her parents’ […]
You probably already figured this out, since I haven’t posted here in a month, but having twins does not make for good food blogging. I thought I would pop on here though and list the meals that I’ve discovered in this crazy season that are a) easy b) delicious and c) easy. Most of the […]
This morning I woke up to pancakes, already made. This is new for us, this season where I don’t have to make the pancakes on Saturday morning, and my husband doesn’t either. When I was a new mom and had three kids three and under, Saturday morning looked like every other morning – get a few […]
When I found out I was pregnant with twins, one of my friends who has her own pair said to me, ‘oh your life just falls into a hole for about a year, that’s all.’ Duly noted. I have to admit, the seasons I have had of motherhood where my kids go to preschool and […]