I love summer time!! I love to be outside as much as I can. I love my garden and I also enjoy my Saturday mornings at the local farmer’s market. Our garden always has a wonderful bounty of summer squash, variety of tomatoes, variety of peppers, variety of herbs, eggplant and lemon cucumbers. I go […]
Picnic
Who doesn’t enjoy a wonderful picnic. We love to dine outside and so when we have a day to take a hike, go to the ocean, go on an adventure or if we have guests visiting and we go wine tasting, we like to pack a picnic and enjoy the beauty around us. Obviously, if […]
Baby Food: Homemade
When I had my both my kids I wanted to make their food and not have to buy the jars of the premade stuff. To be honest, I did half and half, as it was hard to plan meals for my husband and I as well as what to serve my first born. Once our […]
Meatball Basics
Meatballs are delicious and my kids are huge fans. We like to get creative using different ground meats besides the usual suspects, ground turkey, ground chicken and ground pork. Most meatballs don’t just call for ground beef. It usually is a combination of ground beef with ground pork sausage and sometimes ground veal. We make […]
Slow Cooker “Crock Pot” Cooking Basics
I was someone who was totally against crock pot’s, but then my aunt gave me an All-Clad Slow Cooker and once I started using it, I like it. I still prefer to cook and braise food over the stove for hours in my Le Creuset Dutch Oven’s. The insert comes out of the slow cooker […]
Butchers-Buying Meat
Where I live, I have access to excellent organic meats. I live near two butcher shops and two grocery stores where I have really made an effort to get to know the butchers. I cook all the time and especially for dinner parties or holidays I need special cuts of meat. Plus, when I have […]
