2013 – What an interesting year it has been, full of change and transition. The mantra has often been “with great change comes great opportunity”. Focus on facing changes with an eye to creative resolutions. Keep it positive. Change is good. Our winter months, early on in 2013, were filled with the upcoming transition of sending our oldest child off to ... Read More »
As the holiday week nears, we prepare in our home to celebrate Christmas en masse, as only can be accomplished when the Cichello clan gathers. Seven kids in ten years, all now with life partners, thirteen grandchildren, four dogs, and a bun in the oven. We are massive numbers, and now that so many of the grandchildren are grown adults, we ... Read More »
I had the good fortune to attend TWO amazing funerals in the past three weeks. Yes, I just said “good fortune” and “amazing”, both in regards to funerals. They were so very different, but so very similar. In both cases, I was late to the dance. I only knew these two men for the past 20 years, while mourning family ... Read More »
So much talk of Grandma (click here) led to a major hankering for her eggplant parmigiana. In my now wheat-defying life (click here), eggplant parmigiana has been absent since December of 2013. Waaaaay too long! I did find a local restaurant that offers gluten free options for many traditional Italian dishes. The problem is, you need to plan well in ... Read More »
We had a fantastic Sunday night. Dennis wanted to make dinner. When he wants to cook, I have to force myself out of head chef mode, and accept instead the title of sous chef. Or just cheerleader sometimes. (Cue glass of wine.) Dennis was working on some appetizer recipes for Thanksgiving on Sunday. We tasted a Buffalo Chicken Dip, sinfully, ... Read More »
Silly, but awesome. A recent trip to Staples for the all too often blood-letting purchase of printer ink led me to this beauty: It now sits on my desk and makes me smile. Claire, martinis at work? Doesn’t that significantly alter the learning environment? Someone brilliant over at Scotch brand knows how to make me smile! Oh, and it’s Friday! ... Read More »
I am dying to play with this new Plugin that our super webmaster has added to the Sauced blog! You should now be able to print our recipes without having to print all of our annoying scintillating commentary at the same time. In our plethora-of-fall-veggies CSA-farm-share-life (click here for details), I ended up looking for a new way to prepare ... Read More »
In desperate need of a winter sport! Help! Here comes winter, and I need to be excited. I’m not excited. I want summer. I want sun. I want long days and warm evenings. It used to be the case that with every predicted snowstorm, we would jump up and down with joy! Yippee! Skiing! We had season passes. We were ... Read More »
Have we run out of things to say on Sauced? There was a theme-change-gone-wrong, but in its place we have a bright new format. There was a one-month silence, followed by less than numerous posts. How are you to interpret the sum total? Are we just plum outta thoughts? If that is the impression I have given, then you are ... Read More »
Note to self: Never start thinking you are too cool. After declaring my utter joy at driving Monster Jeep, the swing up and into the driver’s seat, the rumble to life, and the ever so distinctive entrance into traffic, I started to notice that shifting was becoming increasingly difficult. “Turn the car off, and it will slide right into gear,” ... Read More »
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