Any salad that gives me an excuse to crack open a bottle of bubbly has this mommy at "hello." That, and the fact that you can get most all of these ingredients at your local farmers market pretty much rocks. This salad goes with anything you can throw on the grill so get in touch with your inner firecracker and toast to the dog days of summer as you whip this up for the family BBQ.

Remember those pre-packaged traffic-cone orange cheese beanut butter crackers? The ones that you knew on some level CAN'T be good for you but you ate 'em anyway cause the salt/sweet factor was just too good? I have found a healthy solution that tastes great and come from ingredients ( and colors!) that exist in nature.

 

Cheese Peanut Butter

Frankly, I am bored. I am bored out of my mind of preparing, looking at, and serving the same foods in the same ways to my kids. I don't know about you, but they moment I introduce ANY new type of food configuration to my 3 year old, whether it features any 1 of the 4 foods that she will actually eat or not, if it LOOKS different, then it goes neatly into the slobbering jaws of
the two ye

Ah, to relive preparenting days — all those glorious gourmet meals, which have now been replaced by boxed mac ’n’ cheese. Newsflash: I have decided that in my house eating well and parenthood don’t have to be mutually exclusive. I love superb, healthy food and want my kids to, too. I gotta mix it up a bit…I am going to start by reinventing family food (like BLT pizza

It was EASY bein cheesy…

So you and your friends have decided to break out of your coffee-and-catch-up routine and have a proper gathering….Cloth napkins…un-interrupted streams of conciousness….wine… Like, er, actually sitting down to eat. F-U-N! But I feel that in the vortex of time-sensitive kids meals I have forgotten how to do something quick and f

Ah, cooking with the kids. Pouring love into a delicious meal that nurtures and sustains your family. Planting the seeds of a lifetime of happy memories. Right. Spend one harried weeknight trying to make it happen and your soft-focus fantasy will fall faster than they can say “Mommy, cheese soufflé? Yuck.” However, I find that if INCLUDE my 3 year-old Barefroot-Contessa-Wannabe