I've been looking for Broccoli Rabe in the local stores for a while without much luck.  Broccoli Rabe is also known as Rapini.  I often

I can count on John to cook dinner two times each year ...

If you're paying any attention to this blog, you can tell by now that we've got a small wine reserve.  We use an app called CellarTracker to record our 'cellar' wines.  We buy 'value' wines, that is bottles costing less than $20 and a few now and then that cost

My kids will tell you if you ask them that our refrigerator is as full as it ever was even when we had all four of them living at home.  While I try to plan, shop and buy for a week or two at a time, I accumulate a build up of this and that, especially in the refrigerator.  

Paoletti Vineyards was probably the most interesting winery we toured on our trip to Napa in 2009.  We usually don't choose Merlot, but really liked this one and brought some home.  Tonight we remembered how much!

I've had such great success with Cuisine at Home magazine and cookbooks that I can hardly resist picking up one of their new cookbooks.  Recently, I found their latest 'One-Dish Dinners' at Sam's and picked it up.  That

During visits to my daughter, I’d been noticing how much they use their little toaster oven.  I haven’t had one for many years now.  She and her husband make great use of it and she convinced me I needed one, too.  The two main reasons are that it takes less energy to cook small amounts of food and it is safer than opening the big oven door when the toddlers are in the kitchen.&n

On most Saturday nights dining at home , we select a nice bottle of wine and make a meal that pairs well with it.  For tonight, we decided to use the last of our pork chops from the Old Time Meat and Deli shop's spring sale remaining in our freezer.  We had two pork loin chops to use.  So, we are instead reversing t