My mom is a great cook. She cooks every day from scratch, just like her mother used to do. It's a natural thing for her. I remember her often saying that she doesn't mind cooking. It's the dreaded "what to cook for dinner tonight?" question that drove her crazy. Having to face it … [Read more...]
How to cook {healthy meals} fast: efficiency in the kitchen
So much to do, so little time. Whether you work outside your home or otherwise, after a busy day having dinner on the table fast is always a pain in the neck an issue. You see a recipe for a 20-minute meal, and attempt it yourself only to find out it took you twice as long. Or … [Read more...]
Keeping focus: going forward
Making New Year's resolutions has become a running joke, a cliche. When you google "New Years Resolutions" one of the first results is "resolutions are meant to be broken". The word "resolutions" has a stigma attached to it. Not to be hung up on the choice of a better word … [Read more...]
Get organized for Back to School: Daily school readiness routine.
Can you believe we have less than a month before the school starts? This is usually the time when "back to school" anxiety starts affecting both kids and parents: so much to do, so many questions ("Will I get a nice teacher or a mean teacher this year?"-- we hear that a lot … [Read more...]
Summer time management (is not an oxymoron)
I have been trying to figure out my blogging schedule so that it did not interfere with my off-line life. I am not sure how to best fit in with everything else that's going on here on a daily basis. I miss regular blogging, but at the same time resent the fact that my time … [Read more...]
Tips from my kitchen: no-recipe cooking
In my every day cooking I rarely follow a specific recipe. That is how women in my family have always cooked. Growing up I was involved in the kitchen a lot: first as a dishwasher (who could have known that you are supposed to wash both sides of the plate ?!), and then as an … [Read more...]