Naptime Everyday: Recipes for Everyday Cooking and Baking

What’s Going on Today: Manic Monday, pre-school spring social auction meeting, gym, groceries, weekend laundry! Naptime Goals: Make dumplings, assemble soup in slow-cooker and brainstorm for school fundraiser ideas. Tonight’s Menu: Sausage & Spinach Soup with Cornmeal Dumplings, cheese toast. More Great Slow-Cooker Recipes from Project Sam: Spicy Sausage Slow-Cooker Lasagna, Slow-Cooker Short Ribs Pronvencale. […]

What’s Going on Today: Cold, cold, cold. Edit book manuscript, keep the kiddo entertained indoors. Naptime Goals: Assemble Eggplant Involtini, laundry, house cleaning, emails Tonight’s Menu: Eggplant Involtini (Deconstructed), Salad More Great Meatless Entrees: Artichoke-Lemon Pesto with Pasta, Artichoke Lasagna, Eggplant Parmesan, Caprese Pasta Salad, Spanish Garlic Soup, Tomato Soup Florentine, Sweet Potato & Lentil […]

What’s Going on Today: Catching up after the weekend in Boston! Back to work on the book. Naptime Goals: Unload groceries, set up the slow-cooker, ignore it until dinner time! Tonight’s Menu: Slow-Cooker Short Ribs Pronvencale, Egg Noodles and Salad. Parenting Lesson of the Day: A little time away is good for everyone. Last weekend […]

What’s Going on Today: Shoveling, sledding, laundry, more shoveling. Naptime Goals: Peel garlic cloves, cut up the chicken, write Babble columns. Tonight’s Menu: Mistral’s Chicken, creamy polenta, arugula salad. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Pulling them in the sled can be quite a workout! There is something about snowstorms that sends me running for my […]

What’s Going on Today: Gearing up to get back in the swing of things with school, work and life! Naptime Goals: Finish putting away Christmas decorations, make slow-cooker lasagna, test some book recipes. Tonight’s Menu: Spicy Sausage Lasagna, Arugula salad Parenting Lesson of the Day: Children need their routines, too. My friend Sam is the […]

What’s Going on Today: Close to meeting book deadline #1, attempting Christmas card photos, laundry! Naptime Goals: Make Uncle Will’s Mexican Lasagna, writing, fifth and sixth laundry load of the day (cold weather = more clothes to wash) Tonight’s Menu: Mexican Lasagna, Spanish Rice, Green Salad. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Out goes Halloween, in […]

What’s Going on Today: Prepping for Halloween night, having a bbq with the neighbors! Naptime Goals: Make Apple Spice Bundt Cake with Maple Glaze, buy beer. Tonight’s Menu: Brats, Dip, Cake, Beer. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Halloween is now an endurance holiday, it lasts almost as long as Christmas! Halloween has proved to be […]

What’s Going on Today: Clear, cold day in Cooperstown during a visit to my parent’s. Naptime Goals: Bake potatoes and prepare filling. Re-stuff potato skins and save to bake for dinner. Tonight’s Menu: Turkey (Mom), Green Beans (Mom), Twice-Baked Potatoes (Me). Parenting Lesson of the Day: Nothing replaces a good day with Mere-mere and Bampa! […]

What’s Going on Today: Cool fall day, enjoy leaf collecting and carving our first jack-o-lantern. Tonight’s Menu: Pork Tenderloin, Crispy Squashed Potatoes, Green Salad. Naptime Goals: Prep the tenderloin and potatoes. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Take a cautious approach to pumpkin carving with toddlers, it looks a tad scary to them! With the cooler […]

What’s Going on Today: Tropical storm gusting through town, indoors playing after school. Naptime Goals: Put chicken thighs in to marinate, prepare measuring cups for Honey Spiced Madeleines. Tonight’s Menu: Soyaki Chicken Thighs, jasmine rice, madeleines. Parenting Lesson of the Day: Madeleine/Madeline, it really comes down to living in an old house in Paris covered […]

What’s Going on Today: Second activity of the weekend, apple picking at nearby farm. Daughter loves the tractor! Naptime Goals: Slice apples for Cinnamon-Sugar Apple Chips, make Maple Syrup Baked Acorn Squash. Tonight’s Menu: Same as this one! Parenting Lesson of the Day: “Chips” are always a hit! Apple picking is a huge fall activity […]

What’s Going on Today: Apple picking at nearby farm, school fundraiser, all-round fall fun. Naptime Goals: Prepare Maple Syrup Baked Acorn Squash and snack from all the apples we picked! Laundry on the side. Tonight’s Menu: Chicken Thighs, Acorn Squash, Spinach Salad. Parenting Lesson of the Day: They can always pick more apples than you […]