Four for Dinner

I love summer!! On Thursday night, when Grandma and WG joined us for dinner, I combined grilled steak with fresh, home made pesto. I’d never done that before. Why?! It was delicious. Forget sweet barbeque and steak sauces, which I rarely use. This is a combination that I will definitely make again. S also put [...]

Last week, my friend MKG asked me if I had a meatball recipe. Her request had great timing because it gave me an idea. Meatballs and spaghetti would be the perfect dinner for a crowd. So, I asked her if she would mind waiting a week for the recipe and she said, “No problem.” It [...]

There are some grocery items that are so standard, and ubiquitous, they are not something that one would consider making at home. Unless, you are a little bit strange, like me. I would like to make many of those standard items. In fact, many go with tonight’s dinner: ketchup, bread and butter pickles, potato chips, [...]

Am I a foodie? Am I not a foodie? Sometimes I am one or the other. Last night, I was both. L looked at the menu for the week and declared that “Meatloaf and Mashed Potatoes were made to go together”. Where did I ever get this genius idea? Incredible. As the parent of a [...]

Homemade Bolognese Sauce takes a long time to make, so it is good to make it in a big batch and throw some in the freezer. I did that a couple of months ago and it made short work of dinner on Wednesday night, even though it is technically “slow food”. I don’t even remember [...]

Weekend guests are always a welcome change of pace, especially when they make everyone in the house so happy. This weekend was particularly great because our guests surprised L for her birthday and she was utterly and completely astonished when she saw them. Our Saturday birthday dinner was for nine people. I made it as [...]

Grandma and her hubby, W (not Dubya!), were supposed to come to dinner on Friday, but L was sick with a fever and we didn’t want to infect anyone. Frankly, while L got the bug at school, I think she was more susceptible because she had hardly slept all week. Between the pain of the [...]

I bought way too much brisket for our annual Rosh Hashanah dinner this year. I asked the butcher to save two grass fed briskets for me, at the time, because we had a larger than usual crowd. I figured that we would always use it. But, it turned out to be MUCH more than I [...]