Boo!

I told you I loved Halloween!

And what would a Halloween celebration be without Blood Red ...

Rich, dark, devilish. Like a big Reese’s peanut butter cup. The recipe for these cupcakes sounded ...

I was in my early 20’s.  I had been invited to Dean Martin’s daughter’s Halloween party.  Yes, at ...

Each holiday comes with it’s own brand of unpleasantness and disappointment.  New Year’s Eve ...

I stopped at two grocery stores today and both were completely out of Libby’s brand canned pumpkin. ...

Now that we're headin into Fall, it's now time for full-fledged autumn salads.You know, the kind ...

When Brian and I took the boys to Italy, we wanted to eat lunch at a place near the Vatican that a ...

It's September. Summer's over.

I'm probably the only person in San Diego who isn't sad that ...

Years ago I lived on Aquidneck Island (home to Newport, Rhode Island) and every June we’d head over ...

I did it for you, dear reader. I did it all for you. I did something I vowed I would never do. Not ...

If you buy shell on shrimp or fresh shrimp with heads and shell you can make shrimp broth. It’s a ...

Of course I’m as broke as the next girl, but as I was waiting for my car to get serviced, I decided ...

I finally got the urge to bake bread for the first time yesterday. I decided to make a traditional ...

Apparently we aren't the only one's obsessed with ice cream this month. While meadering around ...

My mother stayed with us during her recent visit from back east.  She emerged early each day from ...

I couldn’t let St. Patrick’s Day come and go without making something to celebrate this “green” ...

There were a lot of "farm to table" cookbooks this year, but this is the only one I am keeping. It ...

Growing up with an Italian grandmother, desserts usually meant full-bodied, booze-spiked, often ...

When my lovely daughter, Hillary was a Malibu pre-teen, I gave her what I thought was a total ...