Today is my husband’s birthday. Being two days after Christmas, he grew up a little bit in the land of the birthday lost. After the festivities of the holidays, and then the waiting for the next big one, his day would sometimes get lost in the shuffle. I have tried …
Every year during the holidays I am either hosting or I am going to a family member’s house. Inevitably, we have a conversation about what I can contribute for the dinner. I always get stuck with salad. Obviously because of my food and nutrition background, most people assume I will …
I’ve been reading about a lot of these fake internet news stories lately and they remind me of that game I used to play as a kid – Telephone. In the game, we all sat around in a circle and the first person would start off by making a statement …
Anyone else feeling the impact of the dark days this year? Maybe I am just getting older, but it has been particularly hard for me to adjust to it getting pitch black by 4:30 pm. In these gloomy days of winter, I judiciously rely on three very important things to …
Just the name Chicken Provencal has the wistful name of a foreign dish, and because of the it must be good but complicated. I can tell you first hand that rarely am I drawn to complicated foods. If I see a recipe with lists of unnecessary ingredients and redundant directions, …