Food, Family, and Lifestyle
Today from 4-5:30 p.m., Rhode Island Recipes is being featured during the Foodies Nite In Twitter Party. The topics of conversation, besides our cookbook, will include the subject of cookbooks in general as well as culinary souvenirs. As an added bonus, we will be giving away a copy of our Rhode Island Recipes, as well…
Seeing that it is hot outside and I adore coffee (and if you didn’t know that you must be a first-time visitor), I whipped this baby together on a whim and can’t stop smiling. I also made a decaf frozen coffee milk for the kids. If you live in Rhode Island, you know that all…
I have a lovely friend named Annette and when it comes to cooking, she is as old-school Italian as you can get. When lasagna is to be made, you start two days ahead of time so the sauce (with meat naturally) can simmer and you have time to make the noodles from scratch. The other day…
Lydia and I have had two fun events occur this past week with our ‘Rhode Island Recipes Cookbook‘: A feature on GoLocalProv and a book signing. The feature on GoLocalProv is a slide show of some of our recipes from the cookbook so start cooking. The book signing was held at the Harmony Library…
When it come Summer cooking, I want fun, easy dishes that do not include hours near a hot stove. One dish that often pops into my mind as perfect for the Summer is pasta salad.
Just about anytime I go to make a shrimp dish, I think of Forrest Gump. You do recall the scene and his obsession with shrimp right? Here is a reminder: “Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey’s…
In addition to getting creative in the kitchen, we have been: Camping in the backyard. Doing lots of reading. Built a Fairy house. Biking. A little B-ball. Played with cousins. Dined out while we explored the state. Tried an indoor trampoline park. Played sprinkler roulette and spent tons of time in the pool. What have…
I have had a 20 year+ obsession love affair with cookbooks. But I get even more excited to add to my collection when the authors are people I tweet with and whose blogs I adore. Plus, now that I have released the cookbook, Rhode Island Recipes, I am part of the cookbook community. As it…
This has been a weekend of laziness and laundry but not in the way you may expect on a Summer weekend. The laziness has been a recovery of sorts and the laundry included sickness covered towels, sheets and clothing. Yup, a stomach virus. But it is not that straight forward. Our daughter started off with…
