Monthly Archives: December 2010

Homemade Cheese Ravioli

Working on your resolutions for 2011? In addition to DRINK MORE WATER, you should add MAKE PASTA FROM SCRATCH to your list. It’s definitely a life changer. You will never take fresh homemade pasta for granted again. If you find yourself really digging the experience, you might take it a step further and make a [...]

Spinach Celery Cucumber Juice

That’s right. Juice is back on my radar.  I’m eating & drinking everything GREEN. Just look at my last post and you’ll see why.

The Italian Feast

A week before Christmas Eve, I was making ravioli with my mom for our Italian Feast. It took over 4 hours of work.  They were patiently waiting in my freezer for this special occasion! They were worth the effort! I’ll post the recipe this week…

Merry Christmas!!

Hope you have a fantastic holiday! Lots of love & sweets, Tracy, Casey & Cooper! xoxox

Panettone French Toast

This past Sunday morning, I made breakfast for our friends before taking our kids to see Santa.  Our house was warm and cozy, toddlers were chasing each other around, giggling under the lights of our Christmas tree. It was raining outside; the oven was on and butter was melting away on my skillet. While the [...]

My Interview with Lucinda Scala Quinn

A week ago, I was sitting in our basement in my bathrobe talking to Lucinda Scala Quinn, the Executive Food Editor of Martha Stewart Omnimedia about Bauducco Panettone. My hair was soaking wet and my cell phone was dangerously propped up on a stool while I was trying super hard not to wake up Casey [...]

Flaky Buttery Biscuits

Let’s play the WHAT IF game. What if I went back in time and slipped this recipe into my mother’s yellow recipe binder when I was a kid? How would that change the course of my life? Would that mean I wouldn’t be writing this today? Would I have 9 children and live on a [...]

NUTS about NUTS! (Roundup)

After doing my Cookie Party Roundup, I realized that there are people out there who get OVER LOADED with cookies on the holidays. Sometimes I feel bad adding to one’s cookie loot because there have been times where I’ve definitely been over-cookied. Since there’s a little time left, and some of you might be scrambling [...]

# 4. Take a class to improve my knife skills.

On my 31 comes before 32 list, I set out to take a knife skills class. A few weeks ago, I was puttering around the internet looking for classes and found an Essential Knife Skills class at my local Sur La Table! After all the Thanksgiving preparations & the vacation away with family (don’t get [...]

Peppermint Bark Bandit!

Some bunny is getting into my Peppermint Bark stash!  Can you really blame him?!?  He’s only had the teeniest nibble of one and he WON’T forget it!  “Minty Candy? Pweease Mama?” is what I’ve been hearing over and over again. In the past week,  I’ve made two batches of Peppermint Bark for my friends & [...]