LAY OFF ME I’M STARVING…. “Diet Starts Monday”.     I find myself quoting Chris Farley with SNL “Gap Girls” almost every Friday of every single weekend, since I can remember. And you know what happens on Monday? All I think about is the “diet” that I told myself I would begin while drinking some […]

Aside from my habitual baking I try to cook my main meals a little on the “healthier” side. Healthy as in home cooked with whole ingredients. My grandpa always said when you enter the grocery store, only shop the perimeters. This forces you away from most packaged and processed options. If i didn’t follow his rules […]

I grew up on the east coast, and like most of us Jersey folks half of our life time was spent at a diner off 17. Weekday munchies, weekend after hours hangout, Saturday hangover lunch, Sunday brunch then repeat all over again. However instead of ordering the usual Taylor ham-egg-cheese or disco fries I would […]

There is something about a home baked carbohydrate that fills any little hole in my heart with great momentary warmth and makes me feel completely at ease. This is one of the reasons why I love to bake. And cook. But mostly bake. I love every method to the madness it entails and the mess that it […]

Until recently fresh figs to me were the forbidden fruit. I could go to a restaurant and see them on the menu and instantly want all of it. And i always wanted more. But for some reason I never thought that I could actually purchase the fruit myself and use it for my own personal […]