Dinner Diva: Stock up on vegetable broth!
When you start making your own stock, you’re going to have a hard time buying it from the store ever again.
Dinner Diva: Sizzling tips for searing meat
Cooking meat well is something that takes practice. There’s a knack to getting that perfect golden color on a chicken breast and to making those dark grill marks appear on a steak. While a nice color on a piece of meat looks nice, more importantly, that color basically translates to flavor.
Dinner Diva: How to best use your refrigerator
Chances are, you have a refrigerator in your home. But, if you’re like many people, you don’t put a lot of thought into the what-goes-where process when you get your groceries home from the market.
Dinner Diva: Teach your children to make good food decisions
As parents, we sometimes forget that part of our job is to give kids the “why” behind the “no.”
Dinner Diva: Shopping with your children
Do you grab your purse and duck out the door the minute you know your kids are looked after so you can shop for groceries alone?
Dinner Diva: Teaching basic table manners to children
You know how I feel about making dinner an event in your home. I’m a firm believer in getting everyone around the table together for dinner to reconnect with each other, discuss the day’s events and to nourish our bodies with good home-cooked food. A few weeks ago I talked about the importance of learning [...]
Dinner Diva: Make your own pizza for dinner
If you’ve adopted a healthy new lifestyle for you and your family, you might be starting to miss some of your favorite meals to sit down to. Meals like pizza, for instance.
Dinner Diva: Stock your fridge and pantry for Paleo
When you start looking at Paleo and regular old gluten-free recipes, you may notice that you could stand to do a better job of stocking your cupboards so that you’re not always either running to the market or passing over recipes due to lack of key ingredients.












Dinner Diva: It’s a crab boil! Dinner has never been easier
It’s soft shell crab season in many parts of the US right now and if you haven’t taken advantage of that yet, I strongly recommend doing so!
Posted May 3, 2013