You guys…I’m helping Jamie Oliver. Okay, not DIRECTLY. Jamie himself may not even know I’m alive. But I’m helping the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which is probably the closest brush I’ll ever have with J.O. himself. I was invited to
Today, the First Lady, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and celebrity chef Rachael Ray teamed up to announce the new regulations for healthy school food. They talked about all the hot-button issues so many of us are intimately — and perhaps
I’m not a super-techie person. (I know, I know – shocking given the pristine condition of my blog and my stunning photography. Groan.) I don’t even own a smartphone. Scratch that – I don’t even own a CAMERAPHONE. My 10-year-old
This week, I’ve seen a number of bloggers and websites talking about a new cookbook in which the author basically does exactly the opposite of what you’d think a cookbook author would do: she tells people to forget about recipes.
L. has a quirky habit — okay, he has lots of quirky habits, but I’m only planning to address one in particular tonight. We’ll leave the fact that he bites his toenails for another day. He is the master of
Here I sit at my computer on the first evening of the month of December, and I’ve neglected to post a meal plan yet! The time, it has been getting away from me lately. I’m not even sure my proverbial candle
This afternoon, while I was at work, my boss mentioned something about needing a snack; about an hour and a half later, I passed by his office to see him finally munching. “I see you got a snack at last,”
L. and P. are in a Maurice Sendak phase right now. They’re generally found, these days, jumping around the house with “claws” bared as they enact the Wild Things’ rumpus; trying to stand on their heads like the contrary Pierre;
Hey readers…that lunch-packing post I wrote for “another blog” (very mysterious, right?) is up! Bettina of The Lunch Tray graciously invited me to write a post about packing lunches for her site, so I came up with what she’s amusingly
Last night I introduced the idea of the add-on system for varying your kids’ lunches, without going crazy cooking tons of extra items, AND without pushing them so far outside the comfort zone of “familiar” lunch foods that they’d start