One of the few meals that I remember from my childhood that did not belong to my mom or dad was pot roast. A family friend made an amazing pot roast and I always ate it over match stick egg noodles. Growing up, it was one of the few meals which focused on red meat…… Continue reading Pot Roast Used to Scare Me…
Turkey Meatloaf One thing I love about turkey meatloaf is that I can make it almost any time, I almost always have some or all of the ingredients for it on hand. A couple of weeks ago when I was trying to think of healthy meals that I could start making to get life back…… Continue reading Turkey Meatloaf
It feels like it has been an age and a half since my last blog post! I have been thinking about the blog for a while now, and wanting to write a post – but after so long it was hard to know where to start. I figured one way to start would be to…… Continue reading Chicken Noodle Soup
We are at the end of summer here in New England. Technically the first day of autumn was this week – but today it is in the upper eighties, so it very much still feels like summer – as it often does in September. One of my favorite things to do in September is visit…… Continue reading Summer Vegetable Ratatouille
It is a rare occasion that I will set my alarm clock late on a Friday night – but this Saturday morning I had something to get up for. BAGELS. I was back in the Providence area and I was more than excited to check out the newest bagel place in Providence – Rebelle Artisan…… Continue reading Rebelle Artisan Bagels – a review
One of my favorite meals to eat is chicken enchiladas. Whenever I decide to make them it feels like I’m taking on a big project – but at the end I feel like it really isn’t all that bad. Bonus – the end result is amazing, and you have food for a few meals -…… Continue reading Chicken Enchiladas
On the 4th of July I decided that we needed some sort of dessert and I wanted to use only what we had in the house.I looked in the fridge and saw that we had farm berries and butter. I quickly looked in the cabinet to make sure we had brown sugar, flour and oats.…… Continue reading Easy Summer Dessert – Berry Crisp
Summer is officially here, and so far it has been a very nice one. Before summer arrived, SC and I were really excited to get a new gas grill. We thought we would be more likely to use it during the week and figured we would still go back to our trusty (and amazing) charcoal…… Continue reading Summer Weekend
It isn’t summer yet – and the weather has been rainy, cool and gray for the most part. The exception was the three days last week when we had temperatures ABOVE 90 degrees. Nothing like a heat wave in May. Even though the weather has been gray this week (rain clouds were in the forecast…… Continue reading Summer Eats
The last couple of weeks I had been doing such a great job getting back into my running. I ran five miles on Sunday, on Thursday the same week I went to my first running group in my neighborhood and ran 3 miles. In between I did a couple of miles a few times as…… Continue reading You win some, you lose some
Sugar and Spice 