Food, Family, and Lifestyle
I will state for the ump-teenth time that sometimes getting your family to try a dish involves fun. Fun, silly, crazy. Whatever works for you. Now, in my family, you don’t need to trick anyone into eating steak and potatoes but I wanted to try something different (and gluten free and low sugar to boot!)…
Wednesday night was a casual dinner with some representatives of the host company along with two other East Coast bloggers. The East Coasters were jet-lagged but able to order and ingest most everything on the menu. For my meal, I ordered fava beans and calamari. When dining out, I always try to order items that…
People love baby versions of just about anything. Even vegetables are more appealing. Take this baby zucchini for example. My kids swear they hate zucchini and unless it is in a muffin, they don’t even eat it. But dang it all if they weren’t willing to try it again when in a ‘baby’ version. Yes,…
Hello from San Jose! I figured this week, we would build upon some of the exercises that we have done over the past few weeks. Standard Lunge: 30 in succession followed by: Marching Bridge: 30 in succession followed by: Side-Step Lunge: 30 in succession. No need to utilize the arm/weights portion. Congrats, your buns are…
Yesterday was a very long day. It began at 3:30 am as I needed to get to the airport for a 6 am flight. Why did I come to San Jose? Well, I am not ready to reveal but know that it is for business. The first leg of the flight landed in Charlotte and…
We finally reached 60 degrees on Monday so I was in the mood for spring. Spring makes me think of asparagus, peaches and planting in our garden. Since fresh peaches aren’t here yet, I grabbed my bag of frozen peaches and made a smoothie. My daughter was thrilled as she is a peach nut and…
*This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of The Home Depot* If you recall about this time last year, we began building our backyard patio. Although we did some great work out there, we are excited to get started on some additional fun projects this spring that will make the backyard even…
You already know that I am on a leftover chicken kick right now. I am also on a fun pizza recipe kick and love to find new ways for all of us to use items you may already have lurking in your pantry, fridge or freezer and remix a classic recipe using such items. One…
In case someone has not told you, tomorrow is Easter Sunday. In case someone has not told you, people like to eat Carrot Cake on Easter. We like to eat carrot cake whenever we can. The kids prefer no raisins or nuts in the carrot cake so I have not included any in this recipe….
