"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." ~ Bertrand Russell…
"When you know who you are; when your mission is clear and you burn with the inner fire of unbreakable will; no cold can touch your heart; no deluge can dampen your purpose. You…
"We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize" ~ Thich Nhat Hanh…
"For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is .. …
"Why is lettuce the most loving vegetable?"…
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"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love" ~ Hubert H. Humphrey…
"You should try to relax about having people over. I have friends who are nervous hostesses, and it just contaminates the entire mood of the evening. They are always rushing from the room to…
"There’s no subtext with the wedge (none of that “I’m healthy!”) Its only goal is to please" ~ Bon Appetit…
It's inevitable. You're at a weekend birthday party ..…
Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…
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"Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it" ~ Andy Rooney…
"Whether you think you can, or you can't .. you're right" ~ Henry Ford…
Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…
"We're a nation of largely exhausted cooks today" ~ The New York Times…
"Have I told you lately that I love you?" ~ Van Morrison…
"It's hard to be angry or upset, and be grateful at the same time. If I'm ever of emotional or upset about something I think 'What am I grateful for?' I just…
I'm not going to tell you ..…
"I have a core belief. Life is always happening for us, not to us, and it's our job to find out where the benefit is. If we do, life is magnificent" …
When it's a beautiful summer's night; when the weary travelers have returned home from a month away…
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree” ~ Martin Luther…
"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired" ~ Friedrich Nietzche…
"This book is for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children's meals, the parent-chaffer-den-mother syndrome, or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of…
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"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way …
"Tell me again? Can that really be right? How many diapers does a baby use during the first year?"…
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people" ~ Orson Welles…
"Everyone should blog, even if it's not under your own name. Every single day. If you're in public making predictions and noticing things, your life gets better. …
Happy Friday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…
Groundhog's Day - He woke me just before dawn ..…
The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3" nail…
"Do you still happen to have the list of secrets ..…
Woody: "Sergeant, establish a recon post downstairs. Code Red! You know what to do" Sarge: "Yes, sir!"…
I've always thought I romanticized…
Happy Tuesday!…
Monday trivia! …
It seems lately I can't get enough of…
It was late by anyone's standards as we watched the last of our guests head off into the night…
Happy Tuesday!…
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Have you ever stood in the supplement aisle at your natural foods store and felt…
A nightly habit that's become a multi-year tradition…
These past summer months most evenings a little before dusk…
"I'll have what she's having"…
"In that moment I knew .. the way you know about a good melon" ~ When Harry Met Sally…
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At our house we seem to be rising later and later…
Happy 4th of July! What are you up to this weekend? …
"No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize" ~ Julia Child…
Some days as I sit down to write, I think to myself "I'm not sure .. …
"It's always the simple that produces the marvelous" ~ Amelia Barr…
Watch your thoughts, they become words…
I'd passed on the giant cinnamon roll and chocolate crinkle cookies. "Eh, I'm give or take"…
What are you up to this long weekend? We're ..…
"Home is the nicest word there is" ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder…
"As I look at your meals, in a lot of ways they're made for a man" …
Off-and-on for the past month, I've been slowly chipping away at…
When you'd like more information about a topic related to nutrition, where do you begin?…
Sometimes I look back through the recipes in this space and hope…
There are some things in life for which you happily take your time…
I know, I know, I shouldn't have had it done. It was late, I'd had waaaay too much to drink…
I've decided there are many good things to be said for…
“I am a dreamer. I always have been and probably always will be until God says enough is enough"…
Anyone who can put a homemade meal on the table every night, is my hero…
As green beans found their way into our CSA box this summer…
What's your .. Why?…
We have a pot of drip beef on the stove and bubbly chilling in the fridge. …
There are some invitations in life you instinctively know you need to accept…
Have you ever had one of those weeks?…
Am I the only one to ever wonder how…
If asked to define the Omnivorous, Vegetarian, and Vegan dietary systems .. could you?…
"A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing" ~ Hesiod…
There's an interesting dynamic I've noticed, as we enter week six of Venice Nutrition's 8-week run…
Mogagua…
Beautiful side dishes are often a tradition on holiday dinner tables…
Although it's never the star of the show…
Leave it to Kate to bring something as truly unique as these…
Jerusalem - For many reasons, this is the cookbook I keep coming back to…
In all of my 40+ years, I've never really been into steak…
An invitation to a weekend dinner party…
There must be something to that line of great minds think alike…
There's nothing that says comfort food more than mac & cheese…
As soon as a swap is announced, I can tell he's got an idea…
For the longest time I've wanted to start…
I bookmarked the recipe at least a couple of lifetimes ago…
