As a kid, I was partial to chewy cookies. I remember the warm oatmeal raisin ones my parents used to […]

As years pass, responsibilities increase, and time becomes an often elusive commodity, I wonder how many couples realize that love […]

I love October. The moment when summer hands the baton to fall. The crisp leaves that crunch under foot with […]

Everything, and nothing. That is what’s swirling through my mind at this precise moment. Most days my mind is filled […]

I attempted to read A Year of Magical Thinking this summer, but knowing I am living a similar reality—trying to […]

Day two of the Homemade with Love photo shoot is where Penny De Los Santos captured the cover shoot for […]

  The photo shoot for Homemade with Love felt a little like a Cinderella moment for me. To have such […]

Day two of the Homemade with Love photo shoot is where Penny De Los Santos captured the cover shot for […]

Meet Simon Andrews, food stylist extraordinaire. Putting a cookbook together takes a village. I certainly knew this beforehand, but as […]

Day four—final day of the Homemade with Love cookbook shoot. It was a surreal experience having so many talented folks […]

I’ve been intrigued by Lillet ever since Heidi posted this recipe. I’ve yet to try those buttermilk milkshakes, but did […]

I’ve learned a lot about myself this summer. Some lessons were really just reminders of the “me” that fell into […]

This is my seventeenth summer going to Cape Cod. Michael first took me just a few months after we started […]

When Isabella was in pre-K she sang This Little Light of Mine at her winter recital. She would practice the […]

Our first gaze… our first date… our first kiss, which we thought would be… the beginning of forever. But life, […]

My head feels like Dorothy’s house as it’s swirling into the eye of the tornado. This is what New York […]

Paris and I have become fast friends. I say that with a bit of a heavy heart knowing I will […]

A big part of being in a healthy relationship is learning to say two things: 1) I’m sorry and 2) […]

I’m listening to the clock tick as I gaze out the kitchen window. I remember the day I found it […]

I’m staring at the screen not knowing what I want to write, yet here I am letting the words free […]

carrot fennel soup, coming to a cookbook near you in 2013. I should not be here right now. I don’t […]

The weather in NYC has been abysmal the last few weeks. Not good for someone who often jokes she operates […]

The sucker punch came when I turned the blue card over. The blue card is for the kids’ school and […]

The New York Times was sitting outside my front door. I could’ve gotten lost in the Book Review or drawn […]