Quinoa with Garlic, Spinach and Dried Cherries
 
		
					I had a very busy weekend which meant I wasn’t around to cook for my kids. I had a pleasant reminder of
 
		
					I had a very busy weekend which meant I wasn’t around to cook for my kids. I had a pleasant reminder of
 
		
					Long before I became a blogger or a mother, I was a newspaper reporter. When the earthquake in Haiti devastated the country,
 
		
					I just talked to Lorraine and Samantha is on a plane and coming to the U.S.!!! She’ll arrive in Miami first where
 
		
					I wanted to update the LA Moms Blog post from Friday about friends who are trying to get the girl they are
 
		
					I have always loved food, both eating it and making it. But it wasn’t until I read Eric Schlosser’s book “Fast Food
 
		
					This blog appears to have current information about the status of the rescue. http://thatschurch.com/ If you’d like to follow the situation on
 
		
					This is the LA Moms Blogs about Lorraine’s struggle to get her daughter out of Haiti. http://www.lamomsblog.com/2010/01/one-mothers-struggle-to-get-adopted-daughter-out-of-haiti.html#more CNN ran this story about
 
		
					The news footage from Haiti is almost unbelievable. Buildings in rubble, bodies and limbs scattered in the streets, children wailing. The Red
 
		
					As I said in my previous post, 2010 is looking a lot like 2009. Just like last year, I made a poor
 
		
					I don’t make resolutions. The second I do I just want to break them. It’s like the time I joined Weight Watchers
 
		
					Last night I was feeling ambitious and bloated from the holidays so I made a light dinner for the family. I roasted