Food & Recipes

  • Christmas Cooking

    Our Christmas Day was spent at my parents house chopping, grating, cooking and preparing a wonderful meal to enjoy together. This post is a documentary of all our prepping and spending the time together- even if we had to stir the risotto constantly(we took turns)- we were all together and that’s what mattered.  Not…

  • Recipe: Roast Beef Salad

    This is a quick no cook dinner recipe courtesy of Real Simple Magazine– one of my favorite mags out there!  This is perfect for summer- lots of fresh veggies and you don’t have to cook a thing.  Perfection in my book:)  Plus anything with goat cheese is a-ok in my book.  When we were…

  • Recipe: Pesto Sauce

    This is one of those recipes that isn’t really a recipe.  You know the kind with add a little of this or that, what ever you have on hand.  I know some people reading are thinking, “oh lord I can’t make recipes like that, they always turnout bad.”   I used to be one of…

  • Scott’s Pizza Tour- NYC

    Either this past Christmas or the one before we got my sister and Mike tickets to go on Scott’s NYC Pizza Tour.  It was one of the best gifts to give because Chris and I got to go along too:)  haha.  So now that we are “foodies” in my family we give gifts like…

  • Recipe: Creme de Menthe Pistachio Cake

    This is my all time favorite cake to have for my birthday!  I think my mom has made it for the past 28 years for me.  It is so moist and good and I just can’t get enough.  I decided to make some cupcakes over Easter weekend and they were so good!  I haven’t…