Recipe FAILS
Week 43: Nana’s Pumpkin Bread (Playdough)
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to head the lessons of failure.“ ~ Bill Gates “Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success” ~ Arianna Huffington “If you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing your world. You’re […]
Week 41: Being Italian-ish
Help, I’m in the deep end of the gene pool without a flotation device! When asked about my ancestral heritage, I’ve always proudly responded, “I’m Irish-Italian, with all of the traits to match”. But, in actuality, I have many reasons to question my Italian heritage. I was told there were very few pictures of me […]
Week 38 : Preppy Apple Cake
As a New England academic and Sacred Heart School alumni, Mom was a big fan of private schools; in fact, my sister Kristin graduated from a Sacred Heart school. My sister Kim (who is another long story for another time) went to a private school, but mostly because my mom was desperately trying to figure […]
Week 31: Not So Devilish Dip – Recipe FAIL
What’s the unhealthiest, processed, and otherwise most disgusting food that you either love to eat now or loved to eat during your childhood? I confess…this clean-eating, no sugar and no processed food allowed, healthy, middle-aged (ok, maybe a little more than middle-aged) mom has a long list of junk foods (see below) that I regularly consumed as […]
Week 5: Put the Lime in the Coconut Margarita Cream
According to Wikipedia disordered eating describes a variety of abnormal eating behaviors that, by themselves, do not warrant a diagnosis of an eating disorder. Disordered eating includes behaviors that are common features of eating disorders such as: chronic restraint eating. Compulsive eating. Binge eating, with associated loss of control. I’ve been reading a lot about […]