Celebration Generation: Food, Life, Kitties!

I have an ego the size of a small planet right now, so you’ll have to excuse any perceived narcissism in this post*. So, if you have to go gluten free, you KNOW how hard decent pizza is to come by. The premade store bought ones are more like a weird chewy cracker (that squeaks [...]

Whoa! I’ve really neglected the blog recently… sorry about that! Racing to get the main areas of the house organized and cleaned up. No small task, considering that the dining room was still being used as temporary storage for everything that belonged in the kitchen. As we have enough of the shelves done to move [...]

You’ve probably heard of some of the tricks that food stylists, photographers, and even some other food bloggers use to photograph the “perfect” setup. Shaving cream for whipped cream. Red Sharpies to make strawberries look better. Completely bizarre ways to treat food! We… don’t. Whether for my cookbooks or this blog entry, what you see [...]

Pizza is usually good in any form, especially when homemade from scratch. Even a basic pepperoni pizza can be a thing of beauty… but when you play with the basic elements, changing the sauce and adding interesting ingredients, pizza can be so much more! My husband and I *adore* freshly made pesto, and grow a [...]