It doesn’t take rocket science to embrace the notion that doling out a couple hundred bucks to repair a malfunctioning oven, rather than having to go out and spend a whole lot more to buy a new one. Still, sometimes there are more issues at hand than a simple “fix or replace” going on. And […]

I first published this buttermilk pancake recipe on March 1, 2011. We’d been in Germany for nearly 10 years and good pancakes were very hard to come by. We learned to make many things out of necessity while living there, especially when it came to food. And I’m glad we did. It gave us a […]

We’re all familiar with the oft-uttered refrain, “Home is where the heart is.” Structurally, a house provides us with physical shelter, but it’s a home that offers us shelter from the weather in our own lives – and all the storms we battle emotionally. Or as Ellie Rodriquez so eloquently put it, “The light is […]

Today I am going to share one of our family favorites with you. I discovered this recipe about a year ago, after seeing a pound of ground veal on BOGO at the grocery store. I had NO IDEA what I was going to do with it when I put it in the cart, but after […]

Traveling the great world around us is a wonderful way to experience new things. There is certainly a lot to learn and a lot to see. Now that the weather is warmer, traveling is likely in the plans for a lot of us. No matter where we travel to however, we should first and foremost […]