On principle, I rarely suggest cookbooks as gifts for women.  I also don’t want a vaccuum cleaner for Valentine’s Day or a new ironing board for my birthday, thanks.  Apparently, I have a little feminist rebellion in me after all. And yet, one of the best wedding presents I received was a cookbook I got [...]

Over on my personal blog today, I’m hosting an online housewarming party for a friend of mine who just moved to Florida.  Like any internet savvy woman, she’s made an Amazon Wish List for herself so that we all have loads of ideas of things to buy for her new house. If only ever party [...]

I’ve been on a primarily low carb diet for about 4 years now.  I mean, if you don’t count the months here and there where I decide to completely sabotage myself and eat anything and everything I can get my hands on. The thing about eating low carb for that long is that it gets [...]

Some kitchen gadgets make life easier in the kitchen. Some kitchen gadgets look cool. And some kitchen gadgets are overpriced pieces of crap that are way too much work to use than the original tool they were meant to replace. I do a lot of chopping and dicing and cutting into little pieces in my [...]

My friend Deanna has the most glorious kitchen. And while her cabinetry is beautiful and her granite counters are to die for, what really makes me swoon are all her kitchen gadgets. Cooking in her kitchen is like being on a cooking show. I’m convinced the reason everything she makes turns out better than when [...]