Bananas are one of those fruits always lingering around my kitchen. They’re a reliable snack and make a nice addition to a bowl of cereal, yogurt, or peanut butter toast. But not soon after they start getting covered in brown spots, my affection for eating them quickly fades away. Over time, I’ve learned to love […]
Today has been a long time coming. The last time I updated this blog was back in 2008 (can you believe I started in 2006???), which in blogging time might as well be a century ago. At the time, I was just writing the weekly menu, recipes and foodie events around the town. I was […]
Hot damn, I love cauliflower. It’s a good thing that cauliflower is cheap because I go through it like crazy. If 2015 was the year of kale, 2018 is all about the old time favorite…cauliflower. Once old and forgotten, this giant flower has become cool again. Cauliflower doesn’t need much to be delicious on its […]
Happy birthday my dearest! I am not able to put into words how much I love you. You’ve had my whole heart from the moment I laid my eyes on you. You are the face that launched a thousand sleepless nights. You are a thinker, posing intricate questions, and remembering small details. I am so […]
Somewhere in the Rules of Motherhood there is a chapter titled Moms Don’t Get Sick. Now, we all know this is far from the truth, even the best of us sometimes can’t fight off all the germs. Being sick is never fun but being sick when you’re a mom is the worst hell imaginable. Not […]
Happy Thanksgiving week! As an expat, I have embraced Thanksgiving as one of my favorite American holidays! The focus is on gratitude, great food and wine, not to mention it is socially acceptable to go for seconds, and thirds and leftovers are all the reason for overcooking! To be honest, I still don’t get the […]
October is perfect in every way, but I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with it. I love that it starts to get colder outside and humid mornings become a thing of a past. What I don’t like is the holiday that everyone seems to love so much: Halloween. Go ahead, gasp in disbelief. […]
“You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” Dr. Seuss My dearest Kiki…Today you started the new chapter in your life – you started first grade. Today I hugged you fiercely, and somehow found the strength to let go and send you on your way. […]
Last three weeks have been pure magic. I am running on adrenaline, sugar highs, copious amounts of coffee and rosé. Both Kiki and I celebrated our birthdays and Mother’s Day over and over, and if it was up to us, we would both continue with celebrations. I guess an apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. One of […]
“On the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true. So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of golden starlight in your eyes of blue!” – the carpenters I can’t believe it has been six years since you came into my life. Another year has come and […]
I’ve discovered a secret to a stress free week…Meatless Mondays and Meal Planning! With that, meatless Mondays are here to stay! Choosing meat-free meals on Monday is a great way to look and feel better, it kind of goes along with that new week, new beginning theory. I am definitely not a vegetarian (after all, […]
This was such a lovely weekend. I’ve been craving a slow, lazy, relaxing weekend, and I finally had one. Sure, a getaway somewhere would have been great, but it’s amazing how much better I felt after just two days of unplugging and resting at home! I intentionally planned a weekend with lots of quality sleep, mini […]
Well, hello March! February definitely flew right by, without so much as a whisper! So cheers to sending February off and welcoming March with lots of motivation and sunshine. I also wanted to say hello before my blog grows cobwebs. I have so many blog topics running through my head, albeit time, priorities… but I miss […]
I hope this week is finding you happy, healthy, nourished and caffeinated. Me? A little over caffeinated but feeling pretty good about the week I’ve had and I attribute it to last weekend full of relaxation, good sleep, yummy foods, and an extraordinary Sunday prep. I promise, a blog post of Sunday prep is coming…it’s truly crucial […]
There is a saying “little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice” and ain’t that the truth. Kiki certainly is all sugar and spice, sweeter than honey, spicier than Carolina pepper. My dear, kind, sweet, gentle, sensitive, smart, caring, loving five year old in a moment of her anger and crankiness (yup […]
“On the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true. So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of golden starlight in your eyes of blue!” – the carpenters I can’t believe it has been six years since you came into my life. Another year has come and […]
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Happy 4th of July! Hope your day is filled with lots of fun, food, family and great memories…
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It was Sunday Funday in our house today. We spent a day doing all the fun stuff – cuddling, breakfast in bed, run on the beach, playing in sand, sidewalk chalkboard drawing, planting in the back yard, a little bit of mommy and me yoga time and enjoying our iced-lattes. I also made a weekly […]
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I had a really nice long weekend with Kiki. We played, made “mama kava”, baked, napped, read books, danced around the living room, built pillow/blanket forts, soaked in the sun and enjoyed the breeze fall weekend. Four days seemed like eternity of time together and then somehow it was Sunday and I was taking her […]
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I survived the most difficult weekend…ever, so far. The chef, or shall we call him by his name, Scott, went to PA with Kiki to visit his family for an early Thanksgiving. I am not going to lie, it was awful. It was hard. It was heartbreaking. I missed being with the family. I missed […]
baking, banana bread, bananas, family, Kiki, me, single momI blinked….and it was over. This is not one of those pretty posts – shiny filled with happiness, wrapped up in a bow, but rather a sad one. A hard one for me to write, a hard one for me to process, a hard one for me to accept but it is my story today. […]
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{image} It’s been a long week and all I want this weekend is to spend time with my little family. I don’t really have anything in particular planned or anything that must be done, but just to be together, doing whatever makes us happy! Q: What are your weekend plans?
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One of the best things about having family in town is eating our meals at the table – together! It’s a rarity these days, but for some reason Mili-Mali has cooperated and let us eat in peace. Three nights in a row as we were finishing up the meal she would be getting restless in […]
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The food trucks phenomenon has arrived to the SFL burbs and I finally feel as one of the cool kids! While doing the early morning feeding I read on Twitter that the Food Trucks will be in the Dodge dealership parking lot down the street from our house – how perfect, we have family in town […]
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