by Flora Caputo | Apr 23, 2016 | Recipes, Uncategorized
This is a shout out to all the dads out there. This is your PSA blog post, Mother’s Day is May 8th!I repeat, Mother’s Day is May 8th. Go on. Write it down. Get a highlighter. Imprint it in your brain. Got it? Good!So now, what to do, right?If you have no...
by Flora Caputo | Apr 22, 2016 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Sometimes we want a fresh baked bread for a salad or soup for dinner, but fresh baked bread seems like a daunting task. Herbed fresh baked bread doesn’t always need to be a laborious task, thanks to premade refrigerated bread dough. With a little love and 30...
by Flora Caputo | Apr 15, 2016 | Recipes, Uncategorized
All one skillet meals are a Godsend for busy weeknights, and we have had our fair share of busy days lately as the school year is beginning to ramp up towards the end. End of year fundraisers, school tests, girl scout final badge work, it all seems to be in a race to...
by Flora Caputo | Apr 9, 2016 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Weekends can either be slow and lazy, or crazy busy with running around from games to shopping and errands. Either way, it’s nice to let the oven do a lot of the “dinner work” in making a cheaper cut of meat slow braised in the dutch oven (or slow...
by Flora Caputo | Apr 6, 2016 | Recipes, Uncategorized
The slow cooker is a great way to braise a cheap cut of meat all day, so you can have a great taco night by the time you get home. This pork rojo is a delicious shredded meat for tacos for a busy weeknight. This will taste really spicy as it cooks, but it will mellow...
by Flora Caputo | Apr 3, 2016 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Some of you may know that my blog, over the years, has evolved as my family an I have. When we discovered my daughter had ADHD 3 years ago, we discovered that gluten exacerbated her symptoms-as well as hurt her stomach…a lot. So we try and keep her gluten intake...