Fall ushers in the season of casseroles: Comfort food baked in an oven to warm your body and feed your soul. I was lucky enough to be on the receiving end of my neighbor’s bountiful backyard garden: heirloom tomatoes, mini bell peppers, zucchinis galore. What to do with all these bright, beautiful harvest vegetables? Stuffed …
It’s National Coffee Day and we’re out of the house before 10:00 am on a Saturday for a full day of fun: a fall play date at Cantigny and then two back-to-back kiddo birthday parties. This mama needs coffee. But this mama also needs breakfast. In honor of the unequivocal arrival of fall (it’s not even …
I’ve been on a post-summer fitness reset for three weeks now. I purged my pantry, cleaned out my cabinets, refreshed my refrigerator, and got serious again with another session of FIT4MOM DuPage County Body Back. The program has so many benefits, which you’ve heard me talk about time and time again. But what’s really hitting …
I could eat peanut butter for every meal of every day. On toast, with apples, in smoothies. After dinner, I often eat it straight off of a spoon as my dessert. So here’s a smoothie bowl recipe inspired by my childhood favorite PB & J sandwich (back then, it was on Wonder Bread, of course. …
