Naptime Everyday: Recipes for Everyday Cooking and Baking

If you need advice on just about anything, ask a mother. Seriously, mothers are often the best resource when it comes to answering all sorts of practical questions like how to get a grass stain out of jeans, how to bring down a fever, and, of course, how to get your child to eat vegetables. […]

It has been raining like, well, April, for the past two weeks. My daughter and I been spending most of our days gazing forlornly at the playground outside our building, watching it drip with water, little rivers cascading down the shiny metal slide and into the sand pit. However, despite the incessant pitter patter of […]

I am not a perfect cook, but at least my successful meals greatly outweigh the bad ones. As any parent knows, it is simply impossible to prepare perfect meals and baked goods every time you enter the kitchen. In my case I usually screw something up because I am deliriously tired, hence not concentrating on […]

I count preparing a good roast chicken as one of the top ten life skills every person should have. This requirement is right up there with knowing how to drive a stick shift car (I learned when I was 16) and being able to correctly hang in a picture in your own home. You had […]

I love reading about food almost as much as I love eating it. Give me a good Colwin, Trillin or Hesser essay, a cup of tea with a scone, and I am content to be left alone for hours. Before my daughter was born I was the woman who always had a book or food […]

This meal fits the emergency, it is stuff like this Chicken Tortellini Soup that is quick, nutritious, warm and bubbly, all the right elements for sick-bed comfort food. Sure, it is quite easy to heat up canned soup, but in this case you are taking one tiny extra step by combining the ingredients yourself.

I come from a family of cookie fanatics, so it is no surprise to me that, as my baby book notes,”cookie” was one of my first words. From as far back as I can remember there were always fresh baked cookies in our house. My mother took great pride in her exceptional baking skills and […]

About nine years ago I met a really great guy. He was smart, sweet, handsome and funny, and I couldn’t stop gushing about him to all my family and friends. Our initial courtship activities included the usual trips to museums, walks in the park, coffee houses on Sunday morning, and restaurant reservations. Lots of reservations. […]

In the past week the temperature in my neighborhood has averaged 22 degrees, without the wind chill. These days getting out of the house is a hideous affair involving wrestling a toddler into several layers of wool, zipping her into a fleece sleeping bag and enveloping the entire stroller in a plastic bubble, which has […]

I absolutely love these delicious chocolate orange espresso thins. They marry the delicious flavors of orange and chocolate, with a boost from the subtle dose of espresso. Elegant, yet easy, you’ll love these beautiful cookies!

This is a delicious and easy recipe for eggplant parmesan which is adapted from one of my favorite recipes by Jamie Oliver. It’s perfect for cosy meals in the winter and is very easy to make ahead when you’re pressed for time.