Hey Amy!

I am loving the peaches this season.  They are juicy and sweeter than I remember them but that could be because I am eating them from a different region of our great country.  I am realizing the season is winding down (is winding down my bummer theme of the week or what?) and I will [...]

I am melting.  It has been so warm outside for so many days, I don’t seem to recall any other way to live but with this sweat on my brow and flowing down my back.  I moved this last week and I could not have picked for worse weather!  We are slowly settling in, box [...]

I am excited for the BBQ season.  There is not much you can’t make on a grill and I enjoying trying new dishes.  I made this last summer for a last minute gathering.  It is super sweet and a perfect ending to an outdoor meal.  Kids love it because they can use their fingers to [...]

I found another recipe that I remember being a delicious addition to my backyard BBQ shenanigans.  Oh, how I miss a yard and a BBQ.  Please make this recipe in my honor this weekend.  Raise the kabob in a salute to those of us who have given up yards to live in the city.  Sigh. [...]

My twitter friend @themangreggie has been grilling a lot of fruits lately including pears, peaches and nectarines.  Grilling is a wonderful way to bring fruits into the backyard cookout.  He asked if I had any other suggestions.  Boy do I!  One of my favorite fruits, the pineapple, is best served hot off the grill. Ingredients: [...]

It is so hot in New York.  It’s that awful stifling hot that takes your breath away.  I am wrong.  It’s not hot, it’s warm.  As my 12th grade English teacher, Mrs. Bucy, would say “Are you sexually excited Amy?  Because when one is hot, they are sexually excited.  If it’s your temperature you are [...]

Last weekend I spent time in PA with my family celebrating my brother’s 40th (ahem) birthday.  My sister-in-law, Trish, made this fabulous cake and I asked her if she would share on Friday’s Friends.  Trish is a great sister (in-law), mother and wife.  She gives me a run for my money each time we step [...]