
My Fall Favorites
We’ve turned another page on the calendar!!! Can you believe it…it’s September and fall is in the air! Think: pumpkin spice lattes, little yellow school buses, roasted veggies like my ‘Tipsy’ Roasted Squash and hearty fall soups! Those are just some of the Fall Favorites we’re touching on #LiveonKOMO Newsradio this morning in...

‘Friday Night Lights’ ~ Game Night Fare
It’s tradition. Come fall, our Friday nights are spent under the lights, watching High School Football. We’ve been doing it for years, rooting for so many incredible players and just all-around, great kids, from all over the country. Nothin’ quite like prep football, under those ‘Friday night lights’ (Okay, maybe Saturdays…at Husky Stadium!) Only this...

Rustic Pane & Tomato Soup ~
Lovely Leftovers Image ~ Howard Petrella With a bounty of gorgeous, rustic, artisanal bread leftovers like this, what’s a girl to do? Make bread soup, of course! Growing up, little went to waste at our house. In this day and age, who has money to burn? And here’s what I love about this soup, not...

Hearty Super Bowl Chili
Winning Chili Having some friends over to watch the big game? Make something like this baby, on Super Bowl Sunday… and you will be a champion at home! Here’s what makes this chili so fantastic: Succulent Beef Tenderloin, salty pancetta, Jalapeno chillies, dark beer, rich toasted spices & a ‘secret’ ingredient Valrhona chocolate! Shhh….don’t...

La Famiglia Bistro Style ~ Tomato Bisque & Grilled Cheese Bites
La Storia ~ On a cold winter night, my boys (husband and son), love to come home to homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese. (Funny, growing up, we called it ‘toasted cheese.’ But our son’s friends didn’t know what I was talking about, so I acquiesced.) This simple, but lovely tomato bisque with ‘Beecher’s’ grilled cheese...