Dream Dinners are a Snap to Assemble

Dream Dinners… just the words by themselves sound so nice, like someone else is making me dinner. Close, but not quite. Dream Dinners is a place where you assemble dinners for freezing and cooking later. There are other places similar to this particular company (it’s in 29 states) and there are many other  franchises throughout…

Making or Buying Pizza Dough?

We tried the ready made pizza dough from Trader Joe’s this week. It was entertaining to say the least. We followed the instructions to let the dough breathe for 20 minutes on a lightly floured surface. Then we  rolled it out by hand and added our sauce and toppings. We made two different kinds of…

Do You Have Wicked Thoughts?

I just finished reading Wicked The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire. I know, I’m behind the times, or this shows just how out of control my reading pile really is. I thought Wicked was a meandering but entertaining backstory for the beloved Wizard of Oz. It took me 4 or…

Morality for Beautiful Girls

I’ve hit my reading pile hard so far this summer — My mom gives me a pile of books every so often and I finally made it through a couple of them. I finished these in a week after not having read anything but magazines for months. The book I finished this weekend is Morality for…