Category: Holidays
Keep Your Resolutions: Ten Ways to Change (Any) Behavior
New Year’s resolutions often fail, and it’s not because people lack willpower. You may be stuck in the same old pattern because you’re overwhelmed by detailed (and conflicting) information about how to lose
Everybody Eats: Resolutions
The start of a new year is a time for reflection, and often enough we think of ways to improve the coming year. Right now I’m think about ways to be more frugal and improve my overall health (the picture doesn’t show it, but this chef likes to eat). With that in mind, these affordable, [...]
2011 Portland Family Gift Guide
Holiday shopping doesn’t have to mean canned mall music, chain store tschotskes and impersonal gift cards. Portland is full of unique specialty stores staffed by people who know what’s new, what’s hot and what’s locally produced. From collectible books to salt cooking blocks, encaustic paintings to graphic novels, jousting to journals, and how to cart [...]
Video Game Gift Guide:
Avoid Buyer’s Remorse There’s really no way around it: if you have kids (or a spouse) in the house, you’ve got someone asking for video games this holiday season. You may even be thinking about games yourself—adult women represent a greater portion of the gaming population than boys 17 or younger (37 percent vs. 13 [...]
Everybody Eats with Chef Patrick
My Favorite Christmas treat: Peppermint Bark Yield 2# or 32-1oz Portions 1 ¾ pound White Chocolate ½ cup Heavy Cream ¼ pound Peppermint Candy Canes ½ cup Chopped Walnuts 1 tsp Vanilla Extract 1 tsp Peppermint Extract Break white chocolate up into ½ inch size pieces. Add hot heavy cream to chocolate along with the [...]
Waiting for the Turkey
Every year, all across America, home cooks are trapped in kitchens on the fourth Thursday of November, laboring long hours to prepare a traditional turkey dinner. I did some research (mainly probing my own family and friends ) on what has to be included in Thanksgiving Dinner. For the most part the results were as [...]
21 Ways to Make October Spook-tacular!
October is a great time to get the family together and have some Halloween fun. Here are some tried and true ideas that make Halloween memorable for everyone. 1. Read a spooky story. Get in the spirit of Halloween with one of the many Halloween-themed books. Your little one is sure to love the colorful [...]
Happy HallowGREEN!
Between costumes, candy holders, treat wrappers and plastic decorations, Halloween can quickly become a landfill’s worst nightmare. Multiply that by the number of kids you have, and it can become quite a bit of wasted junk on your conscience. Fortunately, just about anything you do can be done in a more ecologically responsible way, and [...]
