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  • Another Beet Recipe: Beet Gnocchi

    Another Beet Recipe: Beet Gnocchi

    I got another UKG. It’s a gnocchi board. I say it’s a UKG because my grandma always just used her finger for homemade gnocchi, but I wanted ridges. Could you use a fork to make the ridges? Sure, but why wouldn’t you want a little gnocchi board? Plus you can flip the board over and…

  • My New Favorite Kitchen Gadget: Pineapple Corer and Slicer

    My New Favorite Kitchen Gadget: Pineapple Corer and Slicer

    We have a small red hutch in our kitchen that houses what Matt likes to call UKGs, or Unnecessary Kitchen Gadgets. Some gadgets he just doesn’t understand, like what a baster is. Or why we need a happy face pizza cutter when we already have a regular one (because the kids like it, and sometimes…

  • Beets for Breakfast, Beets for Lunch

    Most people who know me know I love beets. I know, that’s a really weird thing to know about a person, but I feel with a love that is more than love for beets. I’ve been known to persistently push the purple wonders on people, and I may have even chased my former boss into…

  • Halloween Week

    Happy Halloween everyone! This is a favorite holiday of mine. I love Halloween week, especially! I’m trying not to watch scary things while I’m so pregnant (I don’t want my heart racing too much), so we’ve been watching more fun Halloween movies. Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus,  and all the fun Halloween TV show specials.…

  • MmMmMm Stuffed Bread

    So I’ve had this post written for a while and never posted. I guess I’ve been busy (with slight baby brain). My niece Jenna’s Birthday was several weeks ago when I originally wrote this. She’s twelve. TWELVE! Her last year as a tween, and she’s still as sweet as ever. She loves typical tween things (1…

  • April Fool’s Day/Chicken Day for Mom!

    In case you didn’t know, one of my many jobs is an English Professor, so I love the fact that April Fool’s Day could be traced back to one of Chaucer’s most popular Canterbury Tales, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, about a fox who plays a trick on a rooster.  You can check out the real…

  • Home Is Where My Pumpkin Is

    It’s finally December, and that means fall is officially over (in my book anyway). I started to pack up all my pumpkins, leaves, scarecrows, and various autumnal decor to replace them with pine trees, holly berries and all my winter decorations. But before I finished I had to use my pumpkin soup bowl. When I…

  • “Gorgapalooza”

    My grandparents came from the same small Italian town, Gorga. I’ve been there once, and it is a beautiful, quaint place. I would love to post photos of when I went to Gorga, but I went 10 years ago (before digital cameras and before my parents’ house fire). I have to work on restoring the…