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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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This weekend was just all over the map…neither Kiki nor I nor the Sous-Chef felt our 100%, so Sunday was spent nursing a fever, lost voice, lots of coughing and an exhaustion. Hopefully we are all on our way to a better health with only a week away from Christmas, as our holiday to-do list […]
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Hey there! Yeah I know it’s been awhile, but I am not going to start this blog with some excuse as to why I have not blogged, what I have been up to, I’ll simply just dive back into it, cool?? No excuses! Life keeps on happening! I’m a meal planner, in case you didn’t know…Usually […]
Menu, menu plan, weekly menu
Have you ever wondered what would your ultimate “ME” weekend be like…well I just had one of those. Since March, this was my first weekend home with no mommy obligations [read: it was Kiki’s weekend with her dad] and I had no work travel. I think I forgot what those weekends are like. It all […]
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What a week it has been, what a month actually….I’ve been riding real high lately, and someone told me “Be careful, you may fall hard”…but guess what – I don’t mind falling. As cliche as it may sound, by falling, I know I am living. I set out to live my best year yet and […]
Cooking Light, me, meal planning, Meatless Monday, Menu, weekly menu
Every weekend, I pour through Pinterest, my favorite food blogs, cookbooks and online recipe searches for meal planning ideas. Lately, though I have made one, I haven’t been the best about following the weekly menu plan. Things come up that prevent me from having the time to make a certain meal on a busy night or […]
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Life happened and blogging took sideways, but don’t fret, we still meal planned, cooked, baked and ate. No one went hungry, that’s for sure. Back to our Sunday routine, Kiki and I shared our lattes this morning, and while she was deciding on what bow Minnie and Daisy should wear today, I prepared our menu […]
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I was so out of my element on Sunday since Kiki was with her dad…I missed her laying in bed with me, drinking our “kava” (coffee), and doing our meal planning, I missed her chatter, I missed her laughter, I missed her ordering me around, I missed her. But life goes on…So I put together […]
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Last week’s menu…it never happened. As a matter of fact, I barely got out of bed. That little “break” I took for feeling under the weather, well, I was in bed for days, and my diet consisted or green tea, cough medicine, hot water, lemon and honey, and banana bread that lasted me for the […]
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