I was so excited last night to know I had enough Panchetta Chicken left over for lunch today. Since we were training all day, I knew I would work up an appetite. You can imagine how my excitement quickly faded when I realized my lunch remained on my kitchen counter while I spoke about performance […]

Pasto Serale/Evening Meal A colleague of mine spoke of her plans to make her man dinner, which sounded tasty! So, I went with it. Based on her general description of the meal – minus measurements, this is what I heard – she mentioned rubbing chicken with a brown sugar/cayenne mixture, then wrapping the chicken pieces […]

Buon San Valentino!/Happy Valentine’s Day! I posted Dressing Up for the Occasion when I was Birmingham. The tuxedo dressed strawberries were a first for me. So, on the drive home I stewed on thoughts of how I would recreate these Valentine delectables. Luckily, Costco is on down the street from my house and I was […]

Più elegante!/ Best-dressed! I am here in Birmingham, AL for the Southeast Conference on Differentiated Instruction for Middle School and High School educators, and so far everything is going well. The sessions are interesting – hit and miss like most conferences are – but I have picked up some great strategies to forward to our […]