Food and Cooking

Mealtime has always been a challenge in our family, but some things have gotten easier over the years. As our kids have grown they've become less picky (with the exception of our four-year-old, who is still in the phase...

I can boast an assortment of talents that I’ve found useful as a mother: getting strange stains out of clothing, cutting sandwiches in the “right” shape, picking every tomato out of a meal, remembering to give my daughter a...

As a parent of a picky eater, meal time can be one of the most challenging events of the day. Sometimes the dinner table feels like a professional sport that I am seemingly unprepared for. When I began my...

I don't know how this year is going for you, but it hasn't been too great over here. There's been plenty of illnesses and some of the general blahs that come after the holidays. Luckily for me, I grew...

I am almost 36 years old, which means I should know by now that when I swear I will not do something, it almost certainly means I will indeed do that very thing! Up until my mid 20s, I...

Three years ago, I made the first New Year's resolution I’ve ever kept. Essentially, I challenged myself to create something new every day. These didn’t need to be tangible items. Sometimes it was art. Often it was in the...

I cook a whole chicken any time we need chicken for a meal. (We raise and butcher our own chickens and we have a growing family, so I prefer to cook a whole chicken.) I can usually get two...

It’s that time of the year. The twinkle and promises of the holiday season are fading away, leaving us with broken resolutions and frozen noses. There’s a reason January is both hot tea month and national soup month–after the...

Nothing says winter like soup. I love the way that a simmering pot of soup can fill the whole house with yummy smells and warm your insides down to your toes when you sit down to eat.  However, with...

You’ve probably seen them while searching on Pinterest, Google, or reading this blog. Those amazingly thought-out and detailed “bento" style cold lunches that moms across America are sending to school with their kids. They seem to be what’s on...