I ate Irish Soda Bread for the first time a few years ago. It was this delicious, dense, biscuit-like bread that I slathered with butter and enjoyed with a good cup of coffee. A friend made Irish Soda Bread for a bake sale fundraiser, and…
Soups are my favorite way to make it through winter. I love when they’re packed with vegetables, warm and filling. They literally feel like they’re refueling my body and soul one spoonful at a time. I’ve been on a huge soup kick lately – even…
Carrots are one of my favorite vegetables. Whether they’re roasted carrots caramelized to perfection, soft and full of flavor after being cooked in a slow simmering soup or raw with a perfect crunch, they’re a vegetable that’s always delicious. When I first started gardening carrots…
When I was 25, I worked in corporate America at one of the leading fast food chains in the world. It was a grueling world, where my optimism, can-do attitude, lack of a MBA and youth were always working against me. The Senior Vice President –…
I could make a meal of appetizers. When I’m out at a restaurant, I like to order a bunch of appetizers verses a full meal. I love to taste different types of cuisine and experience different types of food. Appetizers allow me to do just that.…
We literally live right off of a street that’s named for its abundance of fruit farms. We have fresh blueberries, pears, peaches and probably enough apples to supply half the country growing up and down the street. You can also find them if you go right…
Butter is one of those condiments that’s necessary to me. It’s something that instantly can brings out flavor in food, you can bake with it, you can add it to meat, you can make it a sauce and perhaps best of all, just slather it on…
Like Christmas décor, pumpkin is a flavor seems to pop up earlier and earlier each year. And also like Christmas, some people love that and some people loathe it. Please place me directly in the love category. I LOVE pumpkin. I swear I could eat it…
As a child, my mom, brother and I would go to my grandma’s for Halloween. My dad always worked late as a car salesman and we lived in an apartment complex so there wasn’t really a place for us to trick-or-treat. My grandma’s house was –…
I’m not sure why it took me so much time to make my own homemade pumpkin puree. It’s insanely easy and so much fresher than what you might find in the can. There’s nothing wrong with the can as long as it says all-natural pumpkin puree,…
