We are a baseball family. I have been devoted to the Chicago Cubs since the mid-seventies when I fell in love with the game and, ahem, Bill Buckner and Manny Trillo. I even got to meet Bill Buckner. Be still my beating heart. And had he stayed with the Cubs,…
Who doesn’t love the sweet and salty taste of a chocolate covered pretzel? Or salted caramel ice cream? Or salt on an apple? Wait, what? I recently Google-landed on a list of “12 Weird Fruits You Should be Salting.” The title was a bit misleading as most of their suggestions…
I’m stuck. Uninspired. I have pages worth of brainstormed blog ideas, but none of them are lighting a fire right now. I just haven’t been feeling it for the past few weeks. But I need to keep at this because I’ve set a goal: create a blog that has enough…
Last weekend my friend Sara mentioned she and her college-aged daughter were committing to Whole30 for the coming month. I’d seen the book Whole30 and knew it was a healthy eating diet, but was curious about the details. That got me wondering about other real food diets such as Paleo…
Are you familiar with the children’s picture book The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear, by Don Wood? The field mouse has her eye on a very large and very ripe strawberry. She manages to take it from the plant and haul it home, but…
Summer doesn’t start in our house until someone makes this oh-so-good and oh-so-healthy salsa!
I have a friend who used to make Oreo cereal for breakfast. She would put five or six Oreos in a mug, roughly break them up with a spoon and add milk. She wasn’t a kid when she did this, either. I have been forbidden to divulge this information to…
Sometimes I play a game called Three Ways Before No Way : prepare a vegetable three different ways before saying, “No way”. If, after trying a vegetable in three different recipes, I go back for seconds on any one of them, the vegetable wins. Carrots, eggplants, and most recently, Brussels…
I have a family history of butter eating. My maternal grandmother served us butter sandwiches. Knowing my Grandma Frisen and her sweet tooth, I’m pretty sure she sprinkled a little sugar on there, too! Butter mint candies were often in her well-stocked candy dish. My grandfather was also a butter…
