Before we get into the yumminess you see above, indulge me a proud mama moment. My friend Julia (who some of you may know as the “Bariatric Foodie Pledge List Minion”) took this picture. When she did this picture I gave her a few pointers, as I give many of my friends, on taking a good food photo. It was …

  …and a lesson about self-care. Since I realize I don’t put date stamps on my blog posts, for future reference this is being posted on December 5, 2013, the day after my 37th birthday. I know many of you wonder what to do on your birthday. In a former life there was cake and ice cream and overly indulgent …

  I know, ok? I know. I posted this recipe on Facebook like a week ago and folks have been patiently waiting for me to post the recipe. As it usually happens, by the time I get around to figuring out a share-able recipe, very few people care anymore! But for accountability’s sake, here we go. This recipe was a …

  So…if you had absolutely no life, an abundant amount of time on your hands and no responsibilities and happened to have the interest in perusing the history of this blog…you would see that ground meat and I have a precarious relationship. Which is funny because I have lots of recipes on this blog using ground meat (like my “Magic Meatballs“). …

Indulge me a short manifesto. Every year (late-August, to be exact) the same thing happens. I innocently log onto my Facebook feed and see that my friends have started to “pumpkin all the things!” And frankly, it’s all a bit ridiculous to me. Like the other day I saw a pumpkin spice flavored chicken sausage. Like…really? I’m not going to …

his is the last of the Laughing Cow recipes and for this one we didn’t put the cheese in it but on it! Like I said before, the original plan was to have an exotic pork smashed meatball topped with the cheese but alas the recipe went terribly wrong somewhere. It was dry and crumbly and just didn’t taste very good (PLEASE …

This recipe is dedicated to all those people who think that eating tasty, healthy food has to be laborious. Margaret is here to tell you that’s not true! She was our fabulous host for the Laughing Cow cheese party and a great friend of mine! This is the picture of her chicken roulade, but I’m sorry, I’m gonna send you …

  I’d love to tell you I thought of this recipe all on my own. That it was some figment of my imagination bourne of my vast culinary experience that I just knew would hit the palate the right way. But I’d be lying. In truth this recipe is an amalgamation of a bunch of things I’ve seen: on Food Network, …

Like I’ve said many times on this blog, I draw inspiration from many places. The neat thing is that my brain retains stuff a LONG time. The inspiration for this recipe was an episode of Diner’s, Drive-Ins and Dives, which I tend to watch while on the elliptical machine (not to be confused with 30-Minute Meals, which I watch on …

Dear Foodies who hate mushrooms: While I do not apologize for this dish, I understand. You feel about mushrooms the way I feel about… … (trying to think of something I don’t like…) … oh, terragon! I hate terragon. So yes, I can empathize! But rest assured the other Laughing Cow recipes I developed are mushroom free and delicious. Check …