I don’t know about you, but at our house tacos are a staple. A week without taco night is pretty much a disaster. Our children love to make their own with all the ingredients laid out on the kitchen counter and get quite upset if they are pre-made by me in hopes to require less […]
Chicken, Pork, Beef & Other Meats
2018 Food Trends Pick No. 1 ~ Coconut Sugar
2018 is full of promise, hope and…food trends. I know, you thought I was going to say something profound but number three got you- didn’t it? We have been obsessing a bit over the endless lists of the food trends for 2018 and thought we’d start a little segment we are calling 2018 food trends […]
Short Rib Grilled Cheese with Fig Spread
I don’t know about you, but here in Rhode Island we have had crazy winter weather. Ice, snow, wind, cold air and now a balmy day with snow melt and rain. On gray days like this one of our favorite family dinners is comfort food at its finest- short rib grilled cheese. It can be […]
Leg of Lamb Baked in Hay
Last weekend we were at the local butcher shop and noticed a sign offering leg of lamb, something we don’t see too often here. For $61.00 we were all in. That is a lot of lamb for a family of four and we knew we’d get our money’s worth by using it in numerous ways. […]
Saturday Night Snacks
In the soon to be published Good Taste Cookbook by commercial fiction author Jane Green, you will find the recipe for these savory & sweet snacks which I managed to polish off in one sitting. Alone. While watching James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke. (Do you just love this show? I am addicted. It is my new […]
Jane Green’s Curried Creamy Chicken
Jane Green’s cookbook, Good Taste, arrived yesterday. If you read my last post you will know that I was one of twenty winners of this lovely book. I have read it cover to cover and have found many recipes I cannot wait to try out and share with you. The book itself is gorgeous. Filled with […]
Leftover Lunch
We had company last weekend and, as a result, ended up with a lot of leftover food that had not been cooked. I had good intentions, Monday night….Tuesday night…but life got in the way and so did an impromptu visit to the emergency room for a finger x-ray on a seven year old who slammed […]
One Pot Roast Leg of Lamb
Springtime will always remind me of our last trip to the UK. We were there for a few weeks and enjoyed seeing spring come to life. The flowers and gorgeous stone walls that lined the fields where the lambs grazed always makes me wonder why we are not living there. In the UK lamb is […]