Quick and Easy Roasted Brussels Sprouts Recipe
on Nov 16, 2009 in vegetables quick and easy roasted brussels sprouts recipe tasty brussels sprouts thanksgiving side dish recipe It’s no secret that I absolutely love Brussels sprouts. When grown and cooked right, they are slightly sweet and a little nutty. Divine. In case you are wondering what I mean by grown right, Brussels sprouts should stay on the stalk until two f...

Turkey, Fontina and Pancetta Pita Sandwich Recipe
on Nov 10, 2009 in Easy Recipes sandwich easy dinner recipe fontina pancetta pita sandwich recipe turkey cutlet recipe On busy workdays, I am a huge fan of quick and easy dinners. A sandwich like this totally fits the bill. Sure, you have to cook the turkey and pancetta, but it only takes minutes and then you are seated and eating. It doesn’t get much better in...

Four Years, and Easy Roasted Acorn Squash Mash Recipe
on Nov 9, 2009 in vegetables vegetarian acorn squash recipe easy side dish recipe mashed squash roasted squash Today is a special day. It’s Sarah’s Cucina Bella’s birthday! It was four years ago today that I sat down at my computer, opened a Blogger account and started writing Cucina Bella. Back then, I didn’t think much about how long...

Apple Picking in November
on Nov 8, 2009 in pick your own apple picking bethel blue jay orchards Connecticut late season The sky turned a brilliant blue today … better than anything Crayola could imagine. And the temperatures were downright warm — along the lines of what we expect from early October, but certainly not November. It was just one of those glor...

Cranberry Salsa
on Nov 6, 2009 in Healthy Cooking appetizers holiday sauce cranberry chutney cranberry relish cranberry salsa Recipe salsa recipe thanksgiving side dishes Got chips? It was mid-summer when I started dreaming up this cranberry concoction. While my family and I were contemplating whether the elevated temperatures really warranted turning on the air conditioner, I was also starting to fantasize about how...

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds Recipe
on Nov 3, 2009 in Feeding Kids Healthy Cooking appetizers roasted pumpkin seeds recipe Until last week, I had never carved a pumpkin myself. There was this one time in high school where I insisted on having a carved pumpkin … but aside from a tiny knife jab or two, I didn’t do the actual carving. But on Halloween, I carved...

Holiday Project Idea: Drop In & Decorate
on Nov 2, 2009 in Great Gifts News Break On the web holiday organization charitable causes drop in & decorate holiday service projects Sometimes, it feels like I blink and a whole month has spun by. That’s what October felt like. It was a whirlwind of trips to New Hampshire and the Cape, along with birthdays, work projects and Halloween. I fear that I might blink again soon an...

Spooky Cheese Ghosts
on Oct 30, 2009 in Feeding Kids holiday cheese ghosts creepy treats halloween snacks “Mommy, what’s this?” Will asked me when he sat down to dinner and saw two spooky ghosts on his plate. I could see him thinking hard as he studied the white apparitions.  “Are they ghosts?” Yes, indeed, they were ghosts...

Happy Halloween!
on Oct 30, 2009 in Uncategorized Last year, I was the mom who didn’t. I didn’t make it to school events on time. I didn’t remember when gym day was. I didn’t send in trinkets for holidays (a lot of parents do in our school). It was a big round of didn’t...

Eating on the Cape
on Oct 28, 2009 in Feeding Kids Vacation eating out cape cod cooke's seafood cottage street bakery lobster claw restaurant orleans the sunnyside So, where did we eat this weekend on the Cape? The Cape. It feels so unnatural to me to say Cape Cod. It’s so formal, like something that someone who hadn’t ever been there would say. But I’ve been there many times. As a child, my f...