Finding the motivation to cook a legitimate dinner on a weeknight still isn’t happening for me, so I solely rely on quick and easy finds to get by.  (BTW – I have no idea what I mean by a “legitimate dinner”.  I suppose I mean dinners that take forever to make…..which is most of them in my case.) This particular recipe is not only...

How does the song go?  ”Rain, rain, go away…”?  I totally disagree – to me, rainy days mean warm food, guilty pleasures, a good book, and a perfectly good reason to not get off the couch. I think risotto is the PERFECT rainy day food (both warm and a guilty pleasure!)- and this recipe is low cal too (for risotto), at about 278 calories per...

I am really proud of this particular recipe – it feels very grown up to me for whatever reason.  And by “grown up”, I do not mean difficult – I clearly do not do “difficult”.  :)  I’ll be honest in that I didn’t really know what Chicken Rollatini was (and I still really don’t) – maybe it is just rolling...

I imagine that my boyfriend and I aren’t the only ones who get a little giddy in a shopping mall food court, right?  I seriously used to indulge in Panda Express four times a week when I was in college – that is probably around the time I gained the obligatory Junior-fifteen (I was a late bloomer – didn’t realize I was supposed to pack it on...

So my quest to learn to cook started a little over two years ago when my boyfriend and I started dating.  The abbreviated version of how we became a couple is this: we met in graduate school and had become relatively good friends – fast forward to December 2009, when I was in Tuscany on a business trip and Bart may or may not have had too much to drink and decided...