Annual Meeting!

My company held our annual investor meeting at the Boca Resort for the first time this year and it was such an incredible experience! We were there for two days and enjoyed ourselves thoroughly!

From 501 East:

From Lucca, the Italian restaurant:

St. Patrick's Day!

Thanks to Pinterest, I found some cute craft ideas for Giuliana's class in school. I used a gold food coloring spray to spray Oreos to look like gold coins, and then printed out a trinity coloring page, poem and big green crayon to add to the goody bags for the kids.

G's teachers are so innovative! They prepared a bunch of different green foods and drinks and had the kids try it! They kept a sheet and wrote down what each kid liked and didn't like!

Salmon, salmon, everywhere!

Salmon is my favorite kind of seafood to cook. I buy fillets and bake them up with a quick Asian marinade of rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, sesame seeds, garlic powder and black pepper (no salt - the soy sauce takes care of that!). My daughter and husband love them, and then if there is any baked salmon left over, I flake it up in a bowl and add breadcrumbs, egg, greek yogurt, and a bit more seasoning, and fry them up as salmon cakes! I usually sautee some spinach or other green to serve alongside, so as to not be such a heavy meal.

I used my spiralizer to make zucchini noodles!

Summer 2020:

Ricotta Cookies!

I love baking cookies, and these ricotta cookies are one of my favorite recipes. Thanks to the whipped ricotta cheese, the cookies are not overly sweet and pillowy soft! I had some extra butterfly containers so I put these colorful spring-themed cookies inside to take to Giuliana's teachers.

Quiche (Again?!)

One day I need to count how many quiche posts I have on this blog. I just love making quiche! My favorite is mini quiche baked up in a cupcake pan, but on occasion my mom will request a full size quiche for a specific party or get together. They're both just as easy to make, and I love how you can customize the flavors based on the contents of your fridge, or even your leftovers!

In this case, I had some pie crust and leftover sausage and spinach to add.

Summer 2020:

An Italian Evening!

One of my mom's best friends is this lovely Italian lady. She is a wonderful hostess, and always sets a gorgeous table when she invites us over for dinner. This particular night was no exception - we had warm foccacia freshly-baked, pizza, mortadella, and of course, plenty of vino! A selection of pastries from our local Italian bakery, Doris, was the perfectly sweet ending to the evening.

Monster Cookies!

One of my good mama friends threw her son a fantastic monster-themed first birthday party and I volunteered to bake monster cookies! These colorful gooey butter cookies were a big hit and adding the sugar googly eyes was the best part!