Recipes

Easy Asian Salmon

Even though I now have four kids to love and care for, I still see the merit in preparing homemade dinner most nights.  While most of what I make is far from fancy, it is always healthy and usually pretty tasty.  My goal with weeknight dinners is simple: make something everyone will enjoy while minimizing […]


Spinach-Mango Smoothie

Little Vivian is a conundrum.  Unlike most kids, she won’t eat any fruit except apples.  However, she loved salad, broccoli, carrots… Her favorite source of healthy nutrition comes from a green drink I make just about every morning. Loaded with spinach and sweetened with mango and orange, it is a fresh and invigorating way to […]


Wexi’s Spiked Southern Sweet Tea

Last weekend I hosted a little Sunday supper at our house.  My brother Wes and his fiance Lexi came along with my sister Colleen and her husband and son.  We all live within a mile of each other, and whenever we get together we always say we should do it more often. Lexi put it […]


Veggie Roasting 101

Ever since Chris subscribed to a mostly Paleo diet several years ago, I have tasked myself with finding new ways to prepare the same veggies we love.  Steamed vegetables are boring, and there is no way I can get my kids to eat those.  But, roasting vegetables makes them irresistible, so that is what we […]


Scrabble on a Dark & Stormy Kind of Night

Since Ben arrived back in March, life has pretty much been a blur.  For me, it is all about getting through the day keeping everyone mostly happy and well fed, while keeping myself mostly awake as I eat leftovers off the kids’ tiny plates.  Chris is working like crazy, and by the time he gets […]


Homemade Coconut Almond (Lactation) Granola Bars

When Ben was first born two and a half months ago I prepared a simple batch of no-bake lactation cookies.  With ingredients like oats, flax seeds and brewer’s yeast, they were a natural way for my body to keep up with the needs of a hungry baby. When I went to make a second batch, […]


Summer Supper: Poblano and Onion Hot Dogs

We got our first taste of summer weather this weekend.  Sunny skies and temps comfortably in the 80s.  Ahhhhh!  Love it! To kick off what we hope to be a long summer season, we enjoyed some classic summer fare: hot dogs.  I don’t usually eat hot dogs – they’ve always seemed a bit sketchy, and […]


Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake

Chris celebrated his birthday last weekend.  In our house, birthdays are a big deal for the kids.  I love how, at their ages, little things make them so happy.  They don’t need fancy gifts or exotic vacations.  They are simply happy to have an excuse to make cake and eat it! This year, Vivian helped […]


Blueberry D-mp Cake

We had such a nice weekend.  On Friday night Chris took Evie to her school’s Father-Daughter dance.  She was SO excited about it all week.  Every day she asked, “How many more days until the Father Daughter dance??”  I let her pick out a dress (blue with gold polka-dots), and she let me do her […]


Spinach and Citrus Green Drink

Ever since Chris gifted me with a fancy blender for my birthday earlier this year, I have been having lots of fun trying out new recipes.  I use the countertop machine almost every day, making quick sorbets, pureeing soups and whirling up smoothies.  A couple months ago I posted a recipe for Maureen’s Green Drink, […]


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