Happy Friday! Today I’m just gonna get right to it and share my food links for the week!

On Babble (the site is back up, yay!):

• 10 Totally Delicious and Creative Guacamole Recipes 
• 3 Kids, a Mom, and a Kitchen: Barbecue Chicken Salad

And food fun on Cosmo:

• 15 Ways to Make Tofu the Best Thing You’ve Ever Eaten
• 14 Unexpected Ways to Eat Cookie Dough
• 18 Grilled Vegetarian Meals That Taste Incredible

You know the drill, share your own stuff, too!

Happy Friday! I’m brimming over with things to share with you today!

First, I finally read Wonder by R.J. Palacio. This book should be required reading for ALL HUMANS. And once all the humans have read it, it should be required reading in every 4th grade class every year from here on out until the end of time. Plus, it’s really just so beautifully written and touching and uplifting and WONDERFUL. Please read it. Please.

I have a fun announcement today about some added functionality to This Week for Dinner. You may have noticed there’s a new button called “Recipe Box” on my navigation. If you roll over “Recipe Box” you’ll see that you can click on two options: “Recipe Box” and “Shopping List.” When you click either of those you will be automatically connected to ZipList, a company I am now partnering with! Some of you may already be using ZipList, in which case you know what’s up and how cool it is! All of the recipes on my site are now set up to be saved to your recipe boxes and shopping lists. If you don’t know what ZipList is, it’s basically a shopping list that makes life easier! You can save recipes to your ZipList recipe box, add ingredients from recipes to your shopping list, save shopping lists, and access all of this on the web or through a mobile app. Bottom line, it’s super handy and cool and perfect for meal planners. If you have questions, let me know!

As you know, I’m slowly working on furnishing and designing our living room. Well, I just bought a chair to add to the space and I am SO EXCITED about it. It’s the Wimsey Club Arm Chair from Dot & Bo. I kind of just want to show it off (isn’t it purrrrty?), but also I had such a fabulous shopping experience with Dot & Bo I felt like I should shout it out from the rooftops. So, I had my eye on this chair for a while, but was scared to pull the trigger. After two interior designers said that I should buy the chair THIS INSTANT, I finally went to do so but it was sold out. Well, when something is sold out on their site, there’s an “I want it” button, which brings you to a page which says something like “Let us know you want this chair via these various social media channels and we’ll see what we can do” so of course I immediately tweeted out my anguish over not getting this chair. Within hours I had an email from someone named Jessica, who was checking with their distributors to see if there were any more chairs available. When there were not, she was able to find out they would be getting it back in stock in about 2 months. THEN, as soon as it was available, I had an email from her letting me know. She was so nice and so helpful. Even after I bought the chair (and a lamp and some cute Swedish stuff), I received another email from another customer service person just checking in and letting me know she’d be tracking my order for me. AMAZING customer service, SUPER cute stuff. I am basically in love with Dot & Bo.

Last but not least, here are my fun Cosmo food posts for the week!

• 15 Majorly Delicious Mocha Recipes
• 15 Crazy Creative Ways to Make Chips
• 20 Quick, Delectable Desserts in Under 30 Minutes

I think I’ve shared enough, now it’s your turn!

Happy Friday! It’s actually sort of a sad Friday for me because it’s the last day of our trip. We’ve had a GREAT week and I can’t wait to tell you about it, but it will have to wait a few days. I’m still in Spring Break mode. 😉

Here are my “Babbles” for the week:

• 12 Sweet and Savory Ways to Use Matzo
• 15 Breads and Muffins Perfect for Easter Brunch
• 10 Delicious Drinks for Easter Brunch

And yumminess on Cosmo:

• 16 Absurdly Tasty Tiny Appetizers
• 15 Dreamy Buttercream Desserts
• 20 Scrumptious Sweet and Savory Quinoa Dishes

Show and Tell means the whole class gets to share. Show us what you got, links, fun news from your life, anything goes!

Happy Friday! Just a few quick links to fun food I shared on Babble and Cosmo this week!

On Babble:

• Delicious and Easy Potato Salad with a Secret Ingredient
• 8 Scrumptious Ways to Use Italian Dressing
• Downright Drinkable Homemade Buttermilk Syrup
• 15 Hot and Spicy Breakfasts to Wake You Up!
• 15 Homemade Syrups to Make Breakfast Even Better
• 3 Kids, a Mom, & a Kitchen: Easter Carrot Muffins with a Cream Cheese Center

And on Cosmo:

• 16 Divinely Decadent Salted Caramel Recipes
• 20 Tiny Desserts That Are Better Than the Originals
• 10 Surprisingly Delicious Ways to Use Ranch Tonight

You know the drill – share your stuff!

Happy Friday!

Before we get to food, can we talk about House of Cards for just one second? Nate and I FINALLY watched the Season 2 premiere this week. And this is what I have to say: WHAT?!?!?!? SERIOUSLY!?!?!? Totally did NOT see that coming!!!!!! Obviously I am not going to spell it out because President Obama asked for no spoilers, but for real, crazyTOWN. Nate and I need to get going on the rest of the season to see what Frank’s got in store for Washington, D.C. My friend Kathy posted a status on Facebook the other day that she was watching a little of The West Wing on Netflix to counteract House of Cards. Made me laugh because it’s so true. They’re basically the same show except one is the angel on your right shoulder and the other is the devil on your left. I’m just hoping reality reflects The West Wing!!

Okay, back to food!

Here are my “Babbles” for the week!

• The Best Sautéed Mushrooms Ever (shout out to Jeffrey’s Hamburgers!)
• How to Pick the Perfect Chef’s Knife
• 15 Non-Lemonade Lemonade Recipes to Gear Up for Spring!
• Hot Potato! 9 Spicy Potato Recipes
• 3 Kids, a Mom & a Kitchen: Homemade Granola Bars (I had the girls try making granola bars all by themselves!)

And yumminess on Cosmo!

• 20 Impossibly Identical Copycat Restaurant Recipes
• 15 Foods You Won’t Believe You Can Make in the Microwave
• 15 Foods You Need to Cover in Buffalo Sauce

Show and tell means everyone in the class gets to share, so be sure to share your stuff, whatever it is!

My cousin is visiting with her family and we celebrated their daughter Emma’s birthday on our back porch last night. I can’t tell you how grateful I am for that porch. We’ve only been in our home for 9 months and already have so many wonderful memories on that patio. I’m feeling very grateful this morning.

Here are this weeks “Babbles”:

• 11 Poached Fruit Recipes to Please Any Sweet Tooth
• 3 Kids, a Mom and a Kitchen: Tips for Making Homemade Amish Pretzels with Kids

And a few fun things on Cosmo:

• 12 Ways to Make The Best Ravioli Of Your Life
• 20 Crazy Delicious Chips and Dips Combos

Show and tell is for the whole class, so share whatever you like! Happy Friday!

How is it already FRIDAY?!

The other day Cate handed me my phone and said, “Look at this video Anna just made, Mom.” To set the stage, our girls loooooove Jimmy Fallon’s lip sync battles. It all began with John Krasinski, then Joseph Gordon Levitt and Stephen Merchant seriously rocked it, and Paul Rudd was the latest lip syncer to hit the scene. Well, Anna is obsessed with Frozen (surprise!) and she did her own lip sync to “Let It Go.” This was all completely on her own. I love how she has to whisper the whole thing and you can tell she’s really feeling it at 3:26. P.S. Don’t mention it to her in person, she gets really bashful. My sweet introverted performer who doesn’t know what to do with herself!

This week’s Babbles!

• 8 Fun St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast Ideas to Serve the Kids
• Our family’s green feast plans for St. Patrick’s Day!

And fun food on Cosmo!

• 20 Delicious Donut Recipes (they all look a-maaaaaay-zing)
• How To Make Risotto + 12 Great Risotto Recipes
• 18 Ways to Eat a Wrap for Every Meal

As always, share whatever you like with us! That’s what show and tell is all about!

It’s Friday again! I seriously don’t know where the time goes. When I picked Anna up at school this morning, she looked up at the St. Patrick’s Day banner hanging outside the office and said, “Oh, the days go too quickly.” Even my 6-year-old can feel time flying!

I need a little something happy today (feeling sad for some friends…see below in my Babble section), so here’s a video the girls and I watched this week. All three of us were laughing uncontrollably. I love that my kids love Jimmy Fallon as much as we do.

Here is what I’ve been up to this week…

Yumminess on Cosmo:

• 10 Fabulous Make-Me-A-Second Mojitos
• 20 Drool-Worthy Coconut Treats
• 15 Best-Ever Savory Coconut Recipes

And on Babble (much love to my co-workers at Disney who were laid off yesterday…I have been constantly thinking about you since the news and will miss working with you all very much!):

• 20 Delicious and Creative Ways to Enjoy Oreos
• How to Make Natural Green Food Coloring
• All Natural Green Buttercream Frosting
• All-Natural Green Mashed Potatoes for St. Patrick’s Day

Have a wonderful weekend and, as always, please share anything you would like in the comments!

Happy Friday! It is rainy and windy and awesome here in San Diego today – we are reveling in the rain!

A few things to share with you today. First, remember my miracle friend Lucy? Today is International Rare Disease Day and my friend Kristen from Rage Against the Minivan wrote a blog post, sharing several people’s stories, including Lucy’s. I am honestly teary eyed looking over the post, feeling grateful and inspired. And I am so grateful to Kristen for helping to get Lucy’s story heard and spread the word about SMA.

On to less important stuff…

I wrote a guest post for KitchenAid’s blog Kitchenthusaist about simple and elegant winter entertaining. Check it out!

On Babble, I talked about time travel foods, beef stroganoff and a night with my kids (a little color behind the recipe I shared here earlier this week!).

Here are my Cosmo posts for the week!

• 20 Totally Un-Boring Ways to Cook Chicken Breats
• 15 Way to Make the Best Fried Rice Ever
• 15 Super Delicious Salmon Dishes

Have a wonderful weekend and here’s to more rain in California!

Happy Friday! Hope everyone is having a good day and getting TOTALLY AMPED UP for the Downton Abbey finale this Sunday!!!! (I might be. It’s hard to tell, right?) Also, True Detective. The end of last week’s episode slayed us. Basically Sunday night is my favorite right now.

Here are the links to my writings in places elsewhere on the web this week, including the second installment of 3 Kids, a Mom and a Kitchen. This time we made banana bread bites that were gone by the end of the afternoon!

Babble!

• 3 Kids, a Mom and a Kitchen: Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Bites
• Sriracha Spinach Scramble
• How to Make Perfect Scrambled Eggs + Awesome Scramble Recipes

Cosmo!

• 15 Fabulous Granola and Granola Bar Recipes
• 15 Irresistible Fruity Cocktails and Drinks
• 11 Must-Try Steak Recipes

As always, please share whatever you want with us! I love reading your links and random sharings!