A Nickel's Worth of News

I teach special education.  As a teacher, Mondays are tough.  As a special education teacher, Mondays are typically tougher.  My father and ...

I usually try to make my blog a very happy place.  Running, cooking, and blogging bring such joy to my life.  I guess that might be why I...

    Does the play on words make you want to start singing "Gettin' Jiggy With It" or what?  For some reason, I couldn't ke...

  As a child growing up in Iowa, I looked forward to the summer sweet corn season all year long.  We would eat corn on the cob until we were...

  I think risotto tops my list with mashed potatoes in the world of starches.   I heart a good risotto! The creamy goodness makes me hungry...

  I've been meaning to post the recipe for this salad for quite sometime; however, I haven't had it on the menu for a while.  I stum...

While planning my menu for this week, I had one goal in mind...keeping the oven off all week.  With temps soring into the upper 90s to 100 d...