New Video Blog!

Hi my friends! Just wanted to let you know that I've started posting short video blogs here on the website and on YouTube, so I hope they will be helpful to you. My intention is just to give a quick recipe idea or a bit of encouragement to you each week. I hope you...

Fresh!

Fresh!

It's summer...time for fresh, light lunches and snacks! Here is a yummy salad recipe I like to have made-up and waiting in the fridge for a side dish, snack or ready-made lunch. Today, I added fresh cilantro, radishes and chive flowers for a delicious garnish, and...

Oven-Fried Chicken

Oven-Fried Chicken

Just have to pass on a new recipe and dinner idea.   (Sorry no picture as of yet, I am camera deficient at the moment!) I came across this little gem in an old neighborhood-type cookbook printed in 1976 and I think it's a keeper. The dinner idea is this chicken...

Cooking is Love Made Visible

Some of the greatest words that can come from a mother's lips are, "Come and eat!" Really, is there anything in family life that counts like food does in the whole equation of love and nurturing? That's why it is SO worth our effort to adjust our lifestyles to support...

Tune In!

I'm excited to let you know that there are two new programs starting up at Lioness...and you can hear all about them Monday morning at 8:15 am on 650 AM or 95.1 FM with Larry J and me on the morning Table Talk show. If you are ready to learn fun ideas for cooking a...

Meal Planning~ Step 3

If you have read the last two posts and have done the homework, way to go! I am so impressed! Or, maybe you haven't decided to get down to business yet, and that's ok.  However, when you do decide to put all of this life-changing information into application,...

Meal Planning 101~Step 2

Hi there!  Ready for a little more progress on your meal planning? As soon as you finish your Meal Planning Step 1, then move on to this post.  Please don't skip ahead!  It will not serve you to get ahead of yourself, and may actually shoot you in the...

Meal Planning 101

There is a new axiom in our day about cooking.  It is, that it is far easier to "pin" a good meal than it is to actually cook one! Don't you wish that the recipes on your Pinterest board would just appear, cooked and beautiful, on your kitchen table with the click of...

Sweetest Smelling Spray

Here is a little room spray you've got to try!  It's so easy that it'll take you two minutes to make once you have the ingredients! All you do is fill a little spray bottle with fresh water, then add 2 drops of each, lavender and ylang ylang essential oils  Double...

Some Like it Hot

Some Like it Hot

Do you like hot cereal?  It is a comfort food to me. Probably because I used to wake up to the smell of hot cereal and buttered toast {my mom in the kitchen} when I was young. So now, I experiment with all kinds of combinations of grains.  Lately it's been soaked...