I’ve been asking a lot of the same rhetorical question lately: “What is WRONG with me?” Why did I think it would be a good idea to take a position on the production team for Listen To Your Mother Providence,

Happy Spring! Or maybe not. Spring in the Northeast is and always has been a fickle beast, but I’m not sure I remember too many other Marches that went out with as much “lion” still roaring as this one. Just

Okay, I admit it. Things have been really boring around here lately. If you’re a reader of mine, you’re probably not reading anymore, because there’s been nothing TO read. Yes. I’m hibernating. I’ve been taking a blogging break. It wasn’t

So, uh, it’s not quite the last day of the month yet, but there’s this thing called “Juno” apparently headed this way? And we might get crushed under the weight of one billion pounds of snow? OK, it probably won’t

I usually have some insights or observations to offer in preface to my meal plans. Even if it’s just a little reflection on the season, an anticipatory commentary on ingredients that are about to become available, or a half-hearted lament

As my 8-year-old son L. would say, “I cannot…not…NOT…believe” that it is November already. There is something so special about this time of year. I know that sounds trite and a bit like I’m stating the obvious, but really –

Sunday dinner is sort of a thing in our house. It’s not a tablecloth-and-wedding-china kind of thing, though years ago when J. and I were first married, I did make an effort to bring out the nicer stuff once a
No, really, the heat is on. Or it could have been, but I restrained myself from touching the dial. It is COLD today in Rhode Island. Funny how this happens almost every year, and yet I’m never really quite prepared
Seriously. You guys. It’s September. (Well, ALMOST.) And I never even posted the meal plan for August! I had one. You know I had one. I can’t function without a meal plan. But, well, AUGUST. It was a month of
It’s here! It’s finally here! My beloved summer Farmer’s Market opens in just a little over a week, and I’m positively giddy about it (in case you couldn’t tell). Oh, I know it’s not going to have much to begin