My boy-town home is awesome. I adore raising five young men. I love being the wife of a man who is a guy's guy. I have a retinue of admirers at the ready all the time. Most of the time, I should say. Okay, I have lots of fans whenever I'm not making someone do a chore they'd rather not do. It's all dude stuff all the time here and that is fine by me. That being said, I sure love being a girl, and sometimes the palpable testosterone in the air gets a bit much even for someone who finds it impossibly romantic and hilarious to be 5/7 of the way to providing a modern reality version of the seven brothers portion of 'Seven Brides for Seven View Post
Homemade Buttermilk Ranch Dressing Mix
When I shared my Homemade Cool Ranch Doritos recipe two weeks ago, I suggested using homemade dry ranch dressing mix in the seasoning. I then received several kind but confused emails from readers asking just where on FWF they could find this recipe. Um, oops? I hadn't published it yet. Today, I make it right by giving you Homemade Buttermilk Ranch Dressing Mix. Our family has an annual bunny bread tradition for Easter Sunday. The day before Easter, I bake a bread shaped like a bunny. When we get back from church, I cut the belly of the bunny out, put a bowl in filled with Ranch dip, and surround the bunny bread with 'bunny food': carrot View Post
Roasted Banana and Caramel Milkshake
What you are looking at is the current resident of the top of the list of things my sixteen year old wants for me to make for him when Lent is over. That boy has so much willpower it puts his daddy and I to shame. He gave up sweets for Easter. While I've been good about providing healthy sweet snacks (loads of fresh fruit, smoothies, and whatnot) and trying to work on sweets recipes while he's at work or at friends' houses to try to avoid tempting him, there is still the occasional moment when he's home and I'm working on something that is most definitely on his no-fly list right now. This is the boy around whom no bags of chocolate chips View Post
Maple Garlic Pepper Rub
A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of judging a Cooking with Maple Syrup contest at the Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, NY. The winning entry was a maple glazed chicken recipe that I’ll share at a future date. Today, though is all about one of the ingredients in the recipe. The recipe for the chicken called for a maple garlic black pepper rub that was bought from a farm stand. Try as I might, I couldn’t get my hands on this rub and it wasn’t available for mail order, so that left me with the option I often like to take anyway: Make It Myself. It was pretty easy, the name of the rub specified all of the ingredients View Post
Greek Salad Gyro Plate {restaurant diy}
A while back, I talked about my deep and abiding love for the Greek Salad Gyro Plate I had when I went out to lunch with my mom and sisters. You HAD to know that this was coming, right? That meal was pure perfection to my brain. It was a salad, and we ALL know how I feel about those. (See here and here for examples, if it slips your mind.) But it wasn't just a salad... it was a plate of salad bigger than my head and it was topped with fresh tomatoes, thick cucumber slices, kalamata olives, crumbled feta cheese, and a gigantic pile of crisp gyro meat and a little ramekin of Greek Dressing on the side. I was over the moon. And even though I View Post
Greek Salad Dressing
You should know that I am incapable of resisting a salad. This is almost entirely due to my dear, sweet mother's BIG GREEN SALAD habit. I know a lot of women blanch at the thought of becoming their mother, but this is not a concern for me. My mom is a saint. She's a nurse who cares for developmentally disabled adults and helps them find jobs. She's the most generous person I've ever met, bar none. She's hilarious. She makes great homemade pizza and lumpia and hot chocolate. She has a wicked sense of humour. She climbs trees with her grand kids. She's a phenomenal pianist. She's a writer. Oh, and she's pretty easy on the eyes, too. Well, View Post
Fish Chowder made with Cod and Dill
You know why I never order chowder when I go out to eat? It's because chowder is a food that I want to hunker over with my face just inches from the bowl sniffing it and generally behaving like a happy animal. Chowder is comfort food writ large for me and comfort food is meant to be eaten at home in your coziest clothes with a book standing by ready to read the second you're done whipping up the dinner dishes. Admittedly that's an idealized version of chowder consumption. Most of the time, I have to settle for the ability to hover my face over the bowl at my own table with a limited amount of lingering before running out the door to take View Post
Onion, Dill, Sour Cream Bread Bowls {mini boule loaves}
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more wonderful homemade bread recipes! It's not too big a stretch to say my existence is build on bread and soup. Bread is sustenance, to be sure; it's the staff of life. It's also one of the foods that provides unending inspiration to me. I got so caught up yesterday with some bread I was working on that I lost track of time and ended up running my youngest to his tap lessons with my hair pulled back into a messy wad with an orange hair tie, no make-up on, mud-covered brown boots, wearing cuffed jeans and a parka. It didn't matter, though, because the bread turned out great. I might look like a hot mess, View Post
Panko Crusted Sriracha Cod {baked}
Here fishy, fishy, fishy, fishy... Lenten Friday fish dishes don't have to be bland or boring: Panko Crusted Sriracha Cod to the rescue! We are a family full of fish-any-which-way lovers with one notable and vocal standout: the baby. To be fair, the little guy loves tuna, sardines, and anchovies, so I guess he qualifies as a fish lover, but when it comes to actual filets of fish, he only loves the sort that comes with a crunchy coating. Not a problem, says this mom. A lot of folks shy away from making breaded fish at home because they think it has to be a messy affair that requires deep-frying. Not so! Our favourite home breading View Post
Cucumber Scallion Salad {5 Minute Recipe}
With the notable exception of vegans, is there anyone out there who couldn't possibly use a few more vegetables in their diet? I know my family could. This is most especially true of my potatoes-peas-and-the-occasional-carrot third child and my two youngest, the charter members of the anti-veg contingent. The two eldest eat everything that isn't nailed down. They're not an issue. Cucumbers are a pretty easy sale around here. One of the three veg phobes actually LIKES them. Two will tolerate them. I call that a win across the board. Because it doesn't take any herculean efforts to get people to try them, they're on regular rotation at our View Post
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