I’m sure you’ve noticed from my blog posts that I’m not a huge fish eater. Perhaps it’s because I never really ate any fish while growing up except at parties which most likely had shrimp, calamari or clams as appetizers. We never really sat down to a fish dinner as   Read More ...

I know potato salad is typically a summer side dish but I just want to keep reminiscing about warmer days. Summer is by far my favorite season. Every winter I ask myself, “Jamie, why do you still live in New England?”. I just want to keep making salads like this and pretend   Read More ...

You can scold me. I am late for my French Friday’s with Dorie post. I know today is not Friday. Friday was my birthday so I’m allowed a pass. I was pre-occupied with fun birthday festivities! I went to a French restaurant for lunch, does that count? The recipe for   Read More ...

Do you need an easy weeknight dinner idea for this week? This recipe comes from Curtis Stone and one of his cookbooks that I own called Relaxed Cooking with Curtis Stone. He is a very handsome Australian chef whose accent I L-O-V-E. (sorry Shaun!) He had a show on TLC   Read More ...

Need a fresh new take on spaghetti with meat sauce? Try this recipe with a Spanish twist! It’s a great way to incorporate new and different flavors into an otherwise mundane weeknight dinner. It’s very healthy for you as well – I found it on the Cooking Light website. I   Read More ...

April 2nd was the first day in 2011 that we grilled our dinner outside. It was a brisk 50 degree day that just begged for a few steaks on the grill. My mouth started watering just thinking about how good our dinner was – let me tell you all about   Read More ...

Happy Valentine’s Day! Yesterday we celebrated St. Valentine – the saint of lovers and yesterday I made chicken piccata for dinner. It was my gift to Shaun and honestly it was all I could do after the amazing steak dinner he bought me at Mooo in Boston Sunday night. I gave him   Read More ...

This will be one of my first blog posts that I actually used one of the 90+ cookbooks that I own. Yes I have a “collecting” problem but we don’t have to talk about that right now. I bought this one recently too (the title caught my eye) – I   Read More ...