If you follow me on Twitter, then you know from my TwitPic that Sunday I was making Old School Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya from the new cookbook Real Cajun by Donald Link. It was fabulous, by the way. Worth every second of standing by the skillet while I deglazed and deglazed and deglazed.
I think cool, rainy, lazy Sundays call for slow-cooked and fussy meals. Warm, sunny days, of course, demand something grilled. And once Pepper Place farmers market opens here, we’ll have locally grown fresh vegetables all weekend long. (Last year I did a Summer Soup Series with a new …read more

Dinner With Dad by Cameron Stracher is his memoir of being a high powered lawyer who had jobs in New York, and, Kansas, and, lived in Connecticut.
His crazy schedule and commute led him to realize that he never saw his family, and, he committed to be home by six o’clock at least five days a week to sit down to a real family dinner, and, he’d even help cook that dinner himself.
Though he would find out that it was all harder than it sounded, he was committed to being there for his family, and, relishing what matters most.
He …read more