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JUMP TO RECIPE PAGE Being healthy gets boring. Good for you if every kale salad with salmon, or whole wheat toast with nut butter is just...

JUMP TO RECIPE PAGE It’s no secret by now that I like to sneak booze into my recipes. Well, not ‘sneak’. More like splash booze, soak...

JUMP TO RECIPE A galette is a wonderous thing: load the center with potatoes and herbs for a winter staple, mound it with sugared berries...

JUMP TO ACTIVITY PAGE One thing about having a precious baby and being lucky enough to stay at home with her all the time, is coming up...

JUMP TO RECIPE PAGE This year we didn’t plant any zucchini or yellow squash in our garden and I’m starting to regret it. Our raised...

Tater tots are man’s best no-waste invention. They were conceived as a way to utilize the leftover slivers and scraps of potatoes being...

I love entertaining. We host game night, family dinner, or friends from out of town for the weekend all the time. Whenever someone...

As indicated in my blog post about hosting tea parties, I am a huge tea buff. Specifically, this time, in chai tea lattes. If I’m headed...

I couldn’t tell you when I first ate a Scotch egg, but I can tell you where I’ve had it most often. The annual Irish-Scottish Festival...

In downtown Denver, there is a historic hotel and spa called The Brown Palace. On the offered tour, you can learn of its rich...

I tend to get into the same trends as my husband. Being together for 12 years since our teens, we’ve kind of grown up and into ourselves...

Childhood memories can shape a person, I truly believe that. There’s nothing like that intense nostalgia that hits you when you walk past...

I don't like cake. Really, it's the icing that's the problem: too sweet, buttercream tastes like butter, cream cheese is okay but...

Sometimes we don't learn from our mistakes the first time we make them. Or the second time... One of the delights I chose to freeze for...

I cannot believe my sweet baby girl is six months old already! You hear all the time that they grow so fast, but you never quite realize...

NOT that I would ever force my beloved baby to have the same hobbies as me BUT I'll be pretty surprised if she doesn't like cooking. I...

There's something so beautiful about freshly risen dough, the science and care it takes to coax a few ingredients into fluffy slices and...

The day has come! We were so excited to introduce solid food to Sistine this past Saturday. It was definitely not what we expected in...

Thank you for your patience! I do plan on blowing up this website with lovely and interesting blog posts about food n fam but I'm still...

I have spent the past couple of months taking constant photos, editing the photos, recipe developing, re-developing, talk-to-text...