For years I have wanted to make the Gumbo Shop‘s Turkey and Hot Sausage Gumbo. One of the first steps is to make turkey stock using the stripped turkey carcass, which makes the day after Thanksgiving a great time to make this gumbo! It calls for 1.5 lbs of the leftover turkey meat, too, which [...]

For my daughter’s Halloween potluck, I wanted to bring a treat that would be healthy, tasty, toddler friendly, and thematically appropriate. So I trolled the Internet looking for ideas. Almost everything I found was sugary and full of empty calories. Then I found an article by Kimberly Bilger MPH, RD, LD, Pediatric Dietitian at Marni Paul [...]

There are a lot of nights when I just don’t feel up to cooking. But we have to eat. That’s when my wonderful husband steps in and cooks us a delicious meal with a beautiful presentation. Today was such a day. I knew we needed something for dinner tonight so when I stopped at Keil’s [...]

Eating healthy, working, and running a household are all time consuming things. Sometimes it can be hard to make all of them happen the way that they need to. It’s easy to give into convenience and pick up a fast food meal on the way home or cook from a box you picked up at [...]

With fall upon us officially this weekend, and with the thunderstorms we just had, I felt myself in the mood for some fall/winter fare. A solid standby in the comfort food category is tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches. I usually have a bunch of canned tomato soup on hand, but we ate it all [...]

This was even better than it looks. I always wonder what to do with left-over corned beef. Usually we just end up eating it reheated with leftover cabbage. This time, I wanted to try something new. The recipe for this was found in the Epicurious app on my phone. It is from Gourmet magazine in [...]