TLC in the Kitchen

Dinner tonight is going to be simple and delicious! It is also going to be a quick fix dinner. We are having cheese ravioli with vegetarian marinara sauce and a nice big salad. On Friday I made eggplant parmesana, chicken parmesana, and fettuccini topped with vegetable marinara sauce. It was scrumptious and I made a [...]

I can always use help with healthy meal planning.  Favorite tools of mine include cookbooks, the Thursday Food Section of the newspaper and the weekly grocery store ads.  Often, I just need some inspiration for planning healthy meals for the week.
 
Cookbooks are a great tool.  The index makes it easy for you to look up [...]

Finally, tomorrow March 20th is the first day of Spring!  I have been waiting and counting down for the first day of Spring since the first day of winter.  I love the changing of the seasons, but I am always really glad to see winter change into spring.  I can’t wait until tomorrow when Spring [...]

You gotta love a crock pot!  I love corned beef brisket, but it takes a long time to cook on the stovetop or oven.  So, I don’t do it that way.  I use my crock pot to cook my corned beef.  It is so easy and so delicious!  I hope you give this recipe a [...]

Today we celebrate Johnny Appleseed Day!  Johnny Appleseed became an American legend while still alive, largely because of his kind and generous ways, his great leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance of apples.  Johnny Appleseed, whose real name was John Chapman planted apple trees across the American Frontier. John Chapman was among the American [...]

Why garlic and onions? Whole books have been written about garlic, an herb affectionately called “the stinking rose”. A member of the lily or Allium family, which also includes onions, garlic is rich in a variety of powerful sulfur-containing compounds including thiosulfinates. While these compounds are responsible for garlic’s pungent odor, they are also the [...]

This past Saturday we had our fifth child’s birthday party.  She wanted to have an animal party and since we have a yard full of animals we decided on a barnyard animal theme.  Of the many, many birthday parties I have hosted for my children, this was one of the best birthday parties ever!
 
I made [...]

My family like most other families – loves pizza. For years now Friday night has been pizza night at our house. Pizza Night is one of our favorite family traditions. Sometimes we pizza for take-out, but lately more often than not, we make our own pizza. We love pizza. Any pizza will due. Tonight is [...]