There are certain meals that I eat when Paul is not home for dinner: Garlic & Herb Pasta; Naked Noodles; Corn & Black Bean Fajita Grilled Cheese, and this, my new favorite: Mango Cashew Chicken Salad. This salad has been on weekly rotation in my house for the last six...

I have said it before and I’ll say it again.  While I love vegetables, and pasta, and taking photographs of such things, the thing that I have come to love most about blogging is the friends I have made during the past three-and-a-half (whoa!) years! Friends like Erin: Is...

All I keep thinking to myself is “wouldn’t this salad taste really good if I were eating it from the deck of our pontoon boat?”  Because, it would, right?  No, we don’t have a pontoon boat but we came very close to signing on the dotted line this weekend....

I think summer is officially here because I am feeling the humidity!  I’m pretty sure I should just stop doing my hair.  I must admit though that we had a great spring.  And summer did arrive a little more slowly than usual so I can’t complain.  It’s all about tank tops...

I am fully aware that my enchilada obsession is nearly out-of-control right now.  I just can’t stop making homemade sauce.  And I can’t stop thinking of ways to use it, other than the obvious. And it is summer, after all, which translates to grilling season, which actually translates to...

So, we are going hiking this summer.  It’s not just a hiking trip; not just a camping trip.  It’s a backpacking-hiking-camping trip with NINTH GRADERS.  Nearly 20 of them! I probably should be absolutely terrified but I’m absolutely stoked for this trip!  We will leave home on a Saturday...