St. Patrick’s Day Feast

Raised in an Italian home, I can honestly say I never knew what Corn Beef and Cabbage was. We didn’t even have any Irish friends and therefore the chance of even tasting an Irish dish was remotely impossible. Later on in years, when March 17th…

The Party Is A Dip

  I think America must be on a “dip” overload, after cruising the dairy and deli isles yesterday at the supermarket. There were dips of every kind: ranch, bean, cheese, avocado, sour creams, hummus, tomato, and vegetable, Mexican, Mediterranean, Somalian, Asian, Thai and every other…

My Mother’s Christmas Cookies

With Christmas just around the corner, I’m already stressing and counting the days, minutes, and seconds in my head trying to figure out how to get all the things done that I think I must get done. When I was a kid, I didn’t recall…

Cooking with Dana…

Cooking with Dana…

The Christmas holidays are always so much fun for me, mainly because my entire family comes to my house. This includes my three adult children, their spouses, and the eleven children they have between them. I must include my only great granddaughter, Gia, age 20…