I should have titled this post “How to cook fish and not be scared”, because heck, I finally did it. I am endorsing cooking a whole fish… who would have ever thought? Cooking fish ALWAYS intimidates me for some reason, and I know I’m not alone in that feeling. Even some of the most confident cooks I know stray away from any fish that isn’t salmon because they are nervous. Sometimes we overcook the fish and it just falls apart, other […]
I am really not a salad person. It takes a lot to get me to order one at dinner or make at home. I have never understood those people who look at menus, see a salad, and gasp in excitement at how good they sound… in fact, that kind of annoys me (partially because I wish I could be that way). That’s why I love recipes like this. It’s a nice variation from the traditional dinner salad, which I know everyone […]
I don’t know about you, but I am so happy the holidays are finally over. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE all the time I get to spend with my family, but I have felt so torn in a dozen different directions with everyone in town, not to mention eating my butt off daily, and I felt as if I had lost track of the stuff I normally do for myself – blogging, exercising, cooking, tv binging, etc. I haven’t even […]
WINE – this post is completely about wine, my best friend/nemesis at times, and something I crave on a daily Olivia Pope kind of basis. A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to take an intensive 3-day introductory wine course at the International Wine Guild, and it has completely changed the way I think about wine. I’ll start by saying I LOVE wine – red wine that is. If I could, I would pair it […]
There is no holiday that compares to Thanksgiving in my mind. Family, food, friends, no work, and time to catch up and be together with no expectations other than good food and catching up, it just doesn’t get any better than that. Everyone has different traditions, whether it is sitting down to a big family dinner, cooking with friends and combining families, or casual turkey day lunches while watching football on the lazy boy at your grandmas house – whatever it is, […]
One of the things I don’t get to do enough is spend the afternoon with girlfriends. Sometimes I get so caught up in everything else that I have going on, I forget how much I love getting together and cooking with my girls, drinking mimosas, and laughing our butts off. This Saturday I got to do exactly that, and was so spoiled by the spread they made for all of us!!
There is nothing more annoying to me than getting to work in the morning, not having prepared my breakfast ahead of time, and trying to figure out what I am going to eat that isn’t going to make me feel like crap. Sure, I would love to devour 3 or 4 cherry iced doughnuts in one sitting, or chow down on some sausage and cheese kolaches, but about 30 minutes later I know I how I will feel, so I […]
