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Tony went to the store the other day to pick up a couple things and picked us up a couple bagels.  The last bagels I bought were from Mariano’s and they tasted like ass.  Tony’s favorite?  The Asiago cheese bagel.  Mine, of course is the Everything bagel.  Many years ago I worked at a law firm in Chicago that daily provided bagels, milk, orange juice,...

So I got more information about my trip to New York next week.  Um, turns out I’ll be staying in Secaucus, NJ.  Monday I shop for my food.  I originally made my recipe two servings, but now I have to rewrite it to serve six.  I don’t think I necessarily need to triple every ingredient, but I’ll figure that out.  And it’s not a timed...

Over the weekend I bought a pint of raspberries for .99 cents – score!  Except. . . not so much.  When I got to work to put my breakfast parfait together, I popped one in my mouth and they were so sour.  I don’t mind sour, but with plain Chobani AND sour raspberries, I ended up adding a couple squirts of sugar free pancake syrup...

This was probably the least productive weekend I’ve had in a long time.  Most weekends I have a mental laundry list of all the things I want to do, make, cook, bake.  But I woke up with a cough both Saturday and Sunday.  While Tony slept Saturday morning, I drank hot tea with lemon and quietly chopped up veggies to make a roasted butternut squash...

It’s rare for me to be sick.  I get bronchitis maybe every five years or so for a few days, but other than that, I hardly ever get sick.  A couple days ago I could feel a tightness in my chest.  Last night my head was feeling stuffed up and I went to bed at 11:00 on a Friday night – we almost always stay...

Yep, the football season has begun.  This is Tony’s favorite time of year hands down.  While he hates the fall and winter season, it is the season of football so that helps him get through the winter months.  So on Mondays, Thursdays and all day Sundays, I pretty much could dance around the house naked and Tony wouldn’t notice.  But he loves the game so...

If my blog were a child, it would be starting first grade this year!  Think of all the things a child does from infancy until first grade.  That’s what I think about my blog when I look back on it.  I had no idea what I was doing back in September of 2008.  And I still don’t know a lot, but all I know is...

If my Dad were still alive, he’d be 76 years old in October of this year.  But my Dad lost his battle with cancer 16 years ago today.  My Mom and I were talking about it over the weekend when she was here.  We said that not only do we still miss him, but he’s missed.  My Dad had a way of making you feel...

I love three day weekends.  Something about that extra day where I feel I don’t have to be productive every minute of the weekend, because I have one more day to get stuff done.  This weekend was a perfect balance of rest, relaxation and productivity. I think I told you our gas grill died.  RIP – you served us well these last 10+ years!  But...

By now, if you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you know that my recipe was one of the top voted recipes in the Away From Home Cooking contest, so now I’ll face three other dishes for the cook-off in New York with Sunny Anderson!   I had to fill out paperwork, disclosures that I am not a professional chef (ha!) and I had to send...