Is the smoothie friend or foe? I actually remember the very first time: I was at my friend Rosemary’s house. It was a magical combination of skipping school and messing up her mom’s kitchen (knowing full well good old Rosy would catch you know what long after I was in the safety of my own…
Category: Vacation
Red, White & Blueberry Smoothie
At the Beach? Backyard? Sucking up AC & watching replays of last night’s game? Here’s an easy, satisfying, healthy Red, White & Blue Treat: Puree frozen or fresh blackberries & blueberries Add blackberry ice cream or blueberry (frozen) yogurt Pour that in the bottom third of a fun glass Puree frozen or fresh raspberries &…
Red White & Blueberry Sorbet
What could be more refrshing on a scorcher like today than a berry sorbet? Puree fresh or frozen berries with greek yogurt or vanilla ice cream Serve with fresh berries & whipped Put your feet up & T.G.I.F. !!! CLICK HERE to purchase More fun, easy ideas & hilarious stories!
Mother’s Day Croissant Magnifique
If you’ve never made a croissant before, never is the time to start. Besides, if you really love your mother, you’ll buy one from a good French bakery, Whole Foods or France. And while I’m violently opposed to the croissant-donut, or as those ‘in the know’ call it, the cronut, I did once taste a croissant whose…
All You Can Eat
All you can eat food troughs. My son didn’t understand why I was referring to them as troughs nor how everyone I mention them to knew just what I was talking about. To be honest, they didn’t bother me in the least until I was watching a documentary on food and a French Chef indicated…
Belgian Waffles
There’s something about a cheap hotel breakfast that is just right. A five star breakfast on the other hand, throws me in a tizzy. Yes I just said tizzy. Do I go the cold route or the hot one? 30 grain toast, cranberry muffins, French toast or all three? If you have the fruit and…
Airline Overbooking
Say I invited you for dinner and upon arrival informed you, you didn’t have a seat. Imagine if you paid for that seat in advance, and I had lead you to believe, by official email with confirmation number and everything, that I would be delighted to see you at exactly 9:50 am. And yet when…
Boresville USA
I know my kids think it’s boresville USA, that I’m boresville USA, but if we are going away for a week or more, I’m just not interested in eating out three meals a day… Oh who am I kidding? Of course I want nothing more than to laze about in watering holes and such and…
Vacation Calories
Surprise, they do count! Sometimes. I don’t know, I was under the impression that since the equipment and lift tickets we’re eating up so much of our hard earned dough, I could gobble up whatever I wanted at the snack bar free of caloric repercussions. My bad. My really bad. Filling out your ski pants while…