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...

So…a few things to mention.  1) I apologize for going off the grid for the past couple of weeks, 2) I feel like I had a pretty good reason…I got engaged!, and 3) I really hope you love this recipe.  Bart and I went over to our friends’ house, Brett and Alessandra’s, a few weeks ago for dinner and Alessandra made this amazing salad – it...

I think I gain a pound or two just looking at this recipe….but it is totally worth it.  In fact, I am going to go out on a limb and say that the extra hour on the treadmill that you may or may not need after eating one of these amazing little confections is a small price to pay. Since making the cookie dough from scratch isn’t really going to help much...

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...