This is a delicious, filling, and totally nutritious salad that is perfect for a hearty meal! I mean just look at all the wonderful colors and tasty ingredients! This salad was inspired from a lunch that I shared with my daughter at Life Alive in Cambridge. MA. This was one of the amazing places that my …
An Italian Dinner Menu from Smart & Final #ChooseSmart
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ChooseSmart #CollectiveBias Pasta and cheese – what get’s better than that? Well, ever since I found this recipe for Penne with Five Cheeses I have been have been touting it as a Grown-Up Mac-n-Cheese. I make if for …
Niçoise Rice Salad Recipe
I just got home from a quick ladies’ getaway to beautiful Lake Tahoe. This was a spur of the moment trip. A friend had a booked timeshare unit that she was no longer able to use, a friend recently lost the love of her life – her soulmate, a few of us were available to get …
Grilled Chicken and Beet Salad
This grilled chicken and beet salad is an easy, healthy, and delicious meal to put together anytime you want to share a little extra love. To add a little love – just simply add some heart-shaped beets to the salad. I love beets! This has not always been true. As a child I hated beets! …
Portobello with Pesto and Quinoa
Even though I am not a vegetarian I looove a good portobello burger. It is something that I will often order when I see it on a restaurant’s menu. While I have enjoyed many a good portobellos in restaurants, I have never attempted to make one at home. That is until the other day. Most …
Caprese Salad
I was so excited to come home from work and find this package! We recieved our second shipment from our adopted olive tree through Nudo. This olive oil is delicious! My husband and I received this as a wedding gift, and you can read all about this wonderful company in an earlier post called, Owning a …
Italian Antipasto Salad
This salad has been a family favorite for years. Eight years in fact. I know this because my daughter Nicole was in sixth grade when she and I were watching Everyday Italian on the Food Network. She loved the looks of this salad and wanted to try making it. So off to the store the …
Three Egg-Cellent Ways to Use Your Hardboiled Eggs!
The Easter holiday has come and gone. If you are like me, you now have a bunch of hard-boiled eggs on hand. Yes, you can just peel, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and gobble them up. But here are two of my favorite go-to recipes and one new one that I just found from the …
Chicken & White Bean Salad
I came across this recipe the other day, and I knew my family would love it! As with most recipes, I took my own slant on it – basically I made a few substitutions and deletions due to what was in my refrigerator. I would love to make this salad exactly as the recipe …
Planning a 2014 Academy Awards Party
I love the Academy Awards! The actors, the dresses, the red carpet – the whole event is over the top glamour. Ever since I was a young girl, I’d sit and watch and dream. I was ten years old when Tatum O’Neal won her Oscar for her performance as Addie Loggins in Paper Moon. Watching …