[picasa username=”lsq713″ albumname=”BlueberryCutiePies”] My brother Peter’s family spends a lot of time together around activities that lead to delicious eating. Last week they went blueberry picking on Cape Cod and made this blueberry pie. My first question was about the crust–which recipe did they use because the crust came out so nice. They went to… View Article

The first ten shows of MHTV are wrapped. It’s been, crazy, comfy, cozy, challenging, delicious, embarrassing, entertaining enveloping and enlightening, funny and humbling, illuminating and invigorating, mad fun, mad hard, mad cool, mad cap nourishing and naughty quieting, quixotic, quinnifying rambling, rambunctious, reaffirming solidifying taxing, tiring, tremendous, verifying, vexing, voluminating wonderful yummy zany………. and I… View Article

The best breakfast serving idea ever comes from Greg Lofts where two hard boiled eggs come presented in a recycled carton. Salt and pepper have their own little nooks and there are even a couple extra spots for the discarded peels too.

[picasa username=”lsq713″ albumname=”ConfidentCookSteakDevelopment”] The September issue of Martha Stewart Living is the “home issue”–which is an appropriate place to debut our new cooking column, The Confident Cook because–the ideas come directly from home and the real life meals that spring from daily family cooking. Here is the springboard/inspiration for the focus of our first column,… View Article

I know I know–I shouldn’t look a gift cook in the mouth, but–I’m just saying….

As everyone MUST know by now–at MSLO we had the greatest event here at our offices last week where we hosted hundreds of bloggers, in town for the annual BlogHer convention, for Martha’s Blogger’s Night Out. They came to get a taste of all the bloggin’ we have going on here. What everyone who was… View Article

This weekend my cousin Jed Scala and his significant other Paula Wardynski hosted a weekend family reunion for the Scala, Bachner and Alberti branches of the Ferlo/Scala clan at their beautiful home in the Berkshire’s in Massachussets. When we were little, there were many of these hosted by the old timer Italians who brought endless… View Article

How happy I was to come home to dinner tonight–shopped for and cooked by hubs. Served and cleaned up for by first born son. SOmetimes–SOMEtimes things work out how you hoped and prayed they might. All that training, and I do mean good home training pays off now and then. THanks boyzzz. All recipes from… View Article

[picasa username=”lsq713″ albumname=”SteakDinner810″] I took one whole week off of blog/facebook/twitter etc. No special reason–just a little vacation from the techno-frontlines because I want these activities to stay fun–not burdensome. And, this is the first time all year that–with sons all out of town, hubs and I ate out four whole nights which is very… View Article