Looks tasty, doesn’t it?  It’s crisp around the edges with the perfect balance of saltiness and creaminess in the center.  It’s nourishing.  It’s delicious.  It fills you up.  It only takes five minutes to make from start to finish. But you know what else dings my chimes about this dish? It costs $3.42 for four [...]

I have started and stopped writing this post fifteen different times.  I’ve written as much as five paragraphs and then deleted the whole thing.  I am, you might say, distractable and distracted.  My children keep bursting in through the doors yelling crazy things at me. (Because apparently my children have given up speaking in favor of [...]

I was intrigued by a couple of pretty frittatas baked in bundt pans that I saw in the blogosphere over the last couple weeks (here and here, for example…)  I love frittatas, and yes, they are a seriously fast food to throw together.  But here’s where my usual problem comes into play.  Inevitably, as I’m at [...]

 
I have a problem.  Every single year a couple of days before Easter I tell myself I won’t go crazy on the egg-dying.  And every year I go nuts.  I remember sitting at our big old trestle table when I was a kid and decorating for hours.  My Mom is not a do-the-holidays-halfway type person.  [...]

Today I won a battle in my semi-perpetual war to make myself prepare homemade breakfasts for my kids.  And I had a major ‘duh’ moment.  I made eggs.  DUH!  The original convenience food.  Why do I not break these out for breakfast more often?
Break eggs for breakfast.  I crack me up.  Oh someone stop me.  [...]