Food, Family, and Lifestyle
How is it that it is already time to start planning for Holiday Cards? Once Halloween passes, we start planning for Thanksgiving and the tradition in this house is to send our Christmas cards out the day after Thanksgiving. Since this popped into my mind at 5:00 this morning, I started peeking at what options…
Recently I was lucky enough to be able to submit questions to Top Chef Chicago Winner Stephanie Izard. After you watch the video, be sure to head over to The Family Kitchen for Chef Izard’s Sweet Onion Soup recipe. A few notes: *I am getting my header changed to read ‘Savor the Thyme’ *Yes, Chef Izard is working…
I have never been a big ‘healthy’ oatmeal consumer. Yes, when I was younger, I made my mom or grandma happy by occasionally ingesting some overly sugared instant oatmeal but I have not really pushed myself to enjoy oatmeal as an adult. But that is changing starting right now. The past two weeks, I have purchased Starbuck’s ‘Perfect…
Were Sunday Suppers a part of your childhood or are they a part of your life now? I remember Sunday Supper being a time when we had dinner with our family and often times, friends and even neighbors. The kids sat at the table and ate the same meal as the grown-ups and then gave…
Today the kids were tired of waiting to get their pumpkins so we trekked to Clyde’s Cider Mill for picking and sampling. This is an annual tradition for us (and thousands of others on the weekends) and we always look forward to the free samples. I think they are intended to distract you from the…
Happy Friday night friends. In case you did not know yet, I write a daily post for Babble and am begging hoping you can stop by after you peruse here each day and enjoy the fruits of my labor. Here is a quick summary of this week’s work: This week on Babble’s The Family Kitchen…
Last weekend my husband and I had an evening to ourselves and after taking care of some errands (boring but also nice to do without little ones pushing each other) we went to eat at a restaurant named ‘Thai One On’. Just the name was enough to get me to go and try it out…
Last week I shared the fun at had a the Soup’s On event in Mystic and raved about the Curried Cauliflower and Chickpea Stew that ended up winning the ‘Best Soup’ title that evening. Luckily, the recipe has been shared and is only a small variation of the recipe from Epicurious. In this recipe, Coconut Oil…
It has been a while since I have: 1. done an EatingWell post and 2. Made some soup but this week I have gone soup crazy. Nothing like cold fall evenings to bring out the cravings for soul warming soup and since I had some Tilapia waiting in the refrigerator, I made Tilapia Corn Chowder ….
