October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month so I’d like to bring a little attention to it. There is a scary statistic that 1 in 8 women will experience breast cancer during her lifetime. My mom had lumps removed from her breasts when I was just a kid, probably 10 or 11, which is the same…
I had two wildly varying customer service experiences this week – one with Land’s End and one with the Esalen Institute. Land’s End was superb and incredibly helpful. Esalen Institute not so much and I don’t care if I ever do business with them, no matter how great a retreat place they have down the…
This week we tried the last two dinners from our stash. Schlepping kids to and from soccer practice and football practice makes it hard to fix dinner and eat together but we used the dream dinners this week to divide and conquer. Act 5 – Aztec Steaks with Black Bean Rice The steaks get rubbed…
Act 1 – Steak Caprese We made our first Dream Dinner meal a few nights ago. It was simple to make – basically broil steak and add a side vegetable or two, which was garlic mashed potatoes and edamame beans that night. I placed the steak on a broiler pan covered in foil and…