~Making the Leap from Louboutin to Le Creuset
One of the things I’m so thankful for is my Dancin’ on Air/Dance Party USA Alumni family. We have been getting together over the years to celebrate various birthdays, marraiges or just because. With the resurgance of popularity of the show due to the recent Dancin’ on Air marathons and the vids popping up online recently, the alumni decided to put our best dancin’ foot forward and “party with a purpose”.
Life has taken quite the turn – moreso than usual. Of course I have the daily 9to9, but have been wrapped up with Wigg’s new medical developments (they found a growth they need to biopsy – fun fun! He’s going to be a surgery regular at his vet hospital at this rate) and cooking for me hasn’t been as much of a priority as it has been cooking for him. The dog goes through about 5 pounds of chicken a {Read More}
Let me tell you about Moe, one of my mother’s BFFs from college. My mom went to college when I was in junior high and I remember many a day visiting the campus, watching the big screen tv while my mom was in class (which was forever tuned to MTV during the days of Madonna, Loverboy, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, etc.), wandering through the school bookstore and having “lunch with the girls” which almost always included her friend Maureen aka Moe. {Read More}
I discovered a host of memories in my mailbox today – handwritten recipes from my Nana and Bampa’s kitchen. My aunt had come across them recently and was so sweet to send them to me. In an instant, a flood of memories came rushing back – their kitchen, the credenza in the dining room that always held a stack of bananas that needed ripening and my Bampa’s infamous chocolate pie, my small high chair/step stool that sat smack dab in {Read More}
Pancakes and I don’t really get along, primarily due to an incident at St. Helwigs in the first grade. We had pancakes every. single. Wednesday and, ever since then if I even saw pancakes, I’d run in the other direction. Thankfully my parents only had me there at the school for a year but you can only imagine how horrid they must have been to form such an aversion to all things pancake. I would try pancakes occasionally after but still {Read More}
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