Whenever I make up a recipe, I write it on a loose piece of card stock with a Pilot G-2 0.38 fine point gel pen. I can’t do it any other way. No other pens or writing utensils or any other kind of paper. I’m weird like that. The problem… read more

One of my goals when I started therapy was to “stop junking”. I tend to get stuck on my phone around 9pm, after my girls have gone to bed for the night. I really only want to check on things, but it almost always turns into what I call “junking”…. read more

My heart, my prayers, my tears, and my love go out to those affected by the tragedy that happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. At the end of this past summer, I took my girls to a local park for one last frolic in the Seattle sunshine…. read more

My husband asked me last night, “Do you really like these cookies… or do you just like them because they have lentils in them and they’re weird?”. I made sure to set him straight.  “I love these cookies, so much so, that I could easily eat 12 of them in one sitting.”… read more

Since my senior year in high school, Thanksgiving at my mom’s house meant Thanksgiving with her shady boyfriend.  Although my mom liked to pretend he was my step-dad, I wanted nothing to do with him and his Coors Light addiction.  I did not attend one Thanksgiving Day dinner at my… read more

I grew up in the Pennsylvania Dutch region where butternut squash grow to the size of swan necks.  I use butternut squash in place of pumpkin in any recipe that calls for pumpkin, unless its a savory dish.  Butternut squash tastes superior to me than the popular sugar pie pumpkin… read more

When my husband went to the store recently, I told him to pick out a weird squash for me.  I wanted to cook with a new one and I wanted to be surprised!  My husband came home, announcing that he picked out a “gold hubbard.”  Something about the name of this squash makes it… read more