The Young Mommy Life

I guess I’ll never really know for sure what I’m doing with this whole motherhood thing. My latest conumdrum? Figuring out what the h&#! to feed these kids. My daughter, who’s two, has survived this past year on basically four foods: bananas, yogurt, Cheerios and oranges. And orange juice. Lots and lots of orange juice. [...]

My poor baby boy is teething right now and so far, so good. He’s not too cranky or fussy as long as you hold him. Put him down and there will be hell to pay. I saw the recipe for these teething biscuits in Wondertime magazine and thought I’d try to make them in order to [...]

Next time you’re out at your favorite restaurant, pick up one of its to-go menus. Go home and try to recreate your favorite dish for half the price and none of the waiting. Thanks to the ever descriptive menu writers, you will have the basic game plan at your fingertips. Tinker with the ingredients a bit, reducing [...]

If you’ve been blessed with good knives and quick hands, you can avoid the whole “crying your eyes out while chopping onions” routine. Me, I kind of enjoy the pain, but only because I’m crazy like that. But since I enjoy onions in almost everything I cook, I had to figure out a better way [...]

I love to cook. If I made enough money to hire a chef, I probably wouldn’t. I like cooking and it relaxes me. I love the chop, chop, chopping of onions and even though I may cry, it makes me feel like I accomplished something when dinner is cooked and smells so good. One complaint [...]