Vegetarian Recipes
Week 45: Tasty Stuffed Squash With a Side of Overwhelm
What do you do when a “16 waking hours day” is no match for your to-do list? Do you meditate? Do yoga? Take a walk? Take deep cleansing breathes? Down a couple glasses of wine? Eat ice cream? Sit and cry? Or some form of all of the above? This week, all of the above “solutions” […]
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 42: Mongolian Lentil Stew Leaves Me Speechless
52 Saturdays left me feeling baffled this week. First, the recipe that I selected last week, while it said it was easy, seemed kind of disgusting and there was no way I was going to try to make a healthier version of it, so I switched recipes midway through the process. That recipe (which has […]
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 40: Mangia, Mangia!
This project has definitely shone a spotlight on the fact that I’m much more like my mother than I care to admit. It’s not that I believe that my mother was a horrible person, rather it’s just that I’ve spent a great deal of energy trying to create a life that was different than hers. […]
Week 37: There Is Always Chocolate
My mother, Suzanne Devine, had a razor-sharp tongue. When she was impassioned or provoked to anger, she could hit below the belt like nothing I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, this week I took after my mother in that respect, and said mean things to someone I care about. I’m mortified! Hopefully, someday the victim of my […]
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 28: Peppers and the Past
For most people, Grandma (or in my case, Nana) is synonymous with warmth, tenderness, well-worn aprons, fresh-baked cookies, snuggles, silly games, and front-row cheering during school concerts. While I have every intention of making sure that image is true for my grandchildren, this was not the case with me and my mom’s mother, my Nana. […]
Week 26: Waldorf Salad, Hold the Mayo and the Melodrama
I’m halfway through my 52-week commitment (insert happy dance here)! To be quite honest it seems as though I’ve run out of things to say… Or maybe it’s that I’ve run out of things that I think folks want to hear. In the editing process, Rick’s feedback has been that I should go deeper into […]
Week 25: Truth, Dare and Grapefruit Salad
What would you do if I dared you to… Skinny dip? Eat something disgusting? Streak through your neighborhood? Kiss or hug a stranger? Jump in freezing cold water? Sing a song on a city sidewalk? Wear something ridiculous to work, church, or a social function? I know exactly what I’d do… because I’ve done all […]