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I am sure I am like a lot of people, if a gun were put to their head and they had to choose one cuisine to eat for the rest of their life, Mexican food would be at the top of the list.  I love everything about it.  The salsa’s, the braised meats, CILANTRO.  I know some people think it tastes like the bottom of...

Knowing that I was going to have a big point lunch, I made yet another fruit sauce parfait.  This time I used a bag of mixed berries Hannah bought at Aldi I think – it has strawberries, blackberries and raspberries – I used 1/2 a cup of that with 1/2 cup frozen blueberries, 1/2 cup water mixed with 1 teaspoon corn starch and 1 teaspoon...

The weather was perfect for going downtown yesterday.  It was already in the low 60s by the time I stepped on the train to go to Chicago at 7:45 in the morning.  I was meeting Carrie and her husband Rob at The Little Goat on Randolph Street.  If anyone lives in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area – her blog has tons and tons of recommendations on...

Hey guys!  What a quick weekend that was to Virginia.  I want to thank my daughter Hannah for Friday’s post.  Um, very spot on that I am much like a tornado in the kitchen.  I’ve never been one of those cooks that cleans as you go – used to drive Tony nuts, which is probably why I didn’t want him in the kitchen with me...

  Happy Monday everyone!  Since Biz is travelling – she asked me to do a blog post today.  It was a gorgeous weekend here in Chicago – 70’s and sunny! I even set my alarm on Saturday to exercise! Crazy! I was so glad I did. I live only a few blocks from our local high school track – walked fast for 1 hour 🙂...

  There’s only one upside to having my mom gone, and that’s the state of the kitchen not being in disaster mode 80% of the time. I love her to death, and she knows that, but the way she works in the kitchen is completely chaotic. Hellish? Maybe. All I know is that I cringe while she’s in the midst of her cooking process, even...

I’ve had such technical difficulties the last few days.  At the suggestion of Randi (hi Randi!) and other Facebook friends, I ended up running a Malware scan on my desktop, since that’s where I do 90% of my work.  I guess I am old school, but I like my desktop!  It ran for an hour and 15 minutes and found 369 “virus” type things.  Gah! ...

This simple Greek marinade will kick up boring chicken - zero points on the WW freestyle plan!

Morning!  I was having computer problems this morning, hence my later than usual post.  I need to switch out my desktop computer, but still need to weed through all the pictures I have and move them to a flash drive, and well, that’s still on my list of things to do. Another great week here in the land of self-employment.  I’ve been doing really great...

I had yet another wonderful experience being not only a judge for the high school culinary state championships at Kendall College on Monday, I was also lucky enough to be a taste judge too! Last time I was a “production” judge, which meant I went around the room looking to see how the teams worked together, if they had their timeline posted, recipes posted, knife...