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Are you tired of all the heart-shaped food shares yet? We hope not because these Blushing Heart Sheet Pan-Roasted Potatoes were a fun spin on a classic family recipe and make a beautiful compliment to all your cold weather comfort food classics – Sunday roasts, chicken dishes, meatless proteins, seasoned fish fillets, or savoury + sauteed veggies – for a subtle nod to the Month
Happy Month of LOVE, all! We’re going on our 5th week of e-learning at home. The kids are managing as best they can, but some days we’ve just needed to be online school rule breakers and fun recipe makers instead. Last week we tried out these Chocolate-Dipped Heart Cookies – 3 ways [because we’re indecisive yet fun like that ;)]: 1) with crushed strawberry-yogurt candies;
If there was one dish that comes to mind that I made weekly when I was working 9-5, commuting, doing the after-work daycare pickup & dinner shuffle with little ones crawling up my leg as I smashed a dinner together this is the one – a One-Pan Chicken Parm-atore recipe. It’s not quite a parmigiana dish, nor the classic chicken cacciatore Italians make, but a
Love is the best ingredient… DadChef and I celebrated 15 years of marriage (26 years of couplehood) last week and had some fun in la Cucina making all the lovey dovey foods together. I usually wait until February – the “official” Month of Love – to post these sorts of recipes, but times just feel so heavy right now with all that’s going on in
One day at a time…the Mom-tra of all I keep reminding myself of after the first week of 2021 showed us we won’t be out of the woods for some time. We’re still trying to get steady over here, fams. DadChef returns to work this week & I’m trying to wrap my head around how I’ll manage e-learning for four kids, running our family business
Happy 2021, all! We’ve been creeping instead of leaping into the new year. Still a little unsteady but a lotta hopeful. We got notice before Winter Break that the kids will be on virtual school come this week, so we’re thinking of some simple recipes that may help with dinner indecisiveness for you guys. I’m still not a meal planner, but have some ideas
CANDY CANE CRINKLE ICE CREAM CAKE Our last food share to the blog before we take a break from la Cucina chronicles – something simple + sweet because don’t we all need a bit of that right now ❤ I made this nut-free Candy Cane Crinkle Ice Cream Cake with the kiddos this week & it was a big hit. So, if you didn’t order
Every year around this very time we do a big decluttering & purge. Out with the things that no longer spark joy before bringing any more “stuff” into the house. I used to do this in January, but something about wanting to welcome a New Year lighter now ignites my my urge to purge earlier. And don’t we all just need to feel a little
Well friends, we made some holidaying progress this weekend – I finished our Christmas shopping in one swift 1.5 hours swoop (all online & in my PJs – JOMO!) & DadChef laid down the tarp for & did a first flood on our outdoor rink! Now back to what we love most about this season – making all the festive foods & hopefully getting it
Appy December, guys! As heavy as this year has been, it certainly has gone by in a flash. I will not peak your holiday stress more by giving you the countdown, but seriously, I’m feeling a little unprepared. I still have 99% of my Christmas shopping to do, so while it may look like I have my holiday ducks in a row with some of
