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Peapod Meal Kits to the Rescue

Dec 7 Posted by nancyjrab 2 Comments

When holiday cooking gets you down, Meal Kits from Peapod home grocery delivery and Barilla can help.  I received a gift card to facilitate shopping for this post. I once saw a headline in the Onion:  Mom Does VRBO in the Caribbean:  Does Same Sh@# with an Ocean View! That’s a little bit Continue Reading

Krusteaz: Easy #FlatbreadMix GIVEAWAY

Oct 12 Posted by nancyjrab Leave a Comment

I am not much of  a baker.  Sure, I make Banana Bread for the #bakeithappen breast cancer campaign, but really, The Worlds Best Brisket is more my style. Baking is so...well, precise.  And I'm more of a slap it all together kind of girl. So I was happy to get an email from the folks a Krusteaz Continue Reading

Crafting for Jews with Hershey’s

Apr 3 Posted by nancyjrab 2 Comments

On Purim, Jews celebrate Persians trying (but not succeeding) to kill us, on Channukah, we commemorate how the Greeks tried (and failed) to kill us, and on Passover, we celebrate escaping being killed by the Egyptians. All this, Shalom Auslander points out in his novel, Foreskin's Lament. And all Continue Reading

The Perfect Bacon Bowl

Mar 4 Posted by nancyjrab 1 Comment

Like the bad Jew that I am, I LOVE bacon.  I can't help it.  It has all the things I crave: fat, salt, crunch. Yum. So I was super excited to be invited to the Perfect Bacon Bowl Breakfast at the super fun Ellen's StarDust Diner only a few train stops away. (full disclosure: while there, I ate a Continue Reading

Banana Bread for Breast Cancer: #BakeItHappen

Oct 23 Posted by nancyjrab 2 Comments

Last week, I got an email from a company that  I'm sure was well intentioned.  But boy, was it ill-conceived.  For every pair of pink headphones sold during the month of October, it said, they would donate a portion of the proceeds to Breast Cancer research. Here was the pitch: "We here at (company) Continue Reading

Samsung House, My House

Jul 8 Posted by nancyjrab 1 Comment

A few weeks back, my fridge died.  It was old. It was battered.  It was time. My oven, too, had been acting up. So after much deliberation and research, I bought  a new fridge and range.  Both, as it turns out, from Samsung. One day later -- really - the very next day - I was invited to Samsung Continue Reading

Sbarro’s New 270 Calorie Skinny Slice

Mar 5 Posted by nancyjrab Leave a Comment

True confession:  Sbarro has always seemed to me to be kinda...well, kinda NOT the kind of place I'd like to eat.  Here in NY, the Sbarros are mostly in super-high-traffic areas, like Times Square and Penn Station.  Not places I hang out, and certainly not places I'd go to eat.  Plus, this is NYC.  Continue Reading

Blogging Angels Banana Bread

Nov 5 Posted by nancyjrab 4 Comments

At a recent Blogging Angels podcast, we talked to Jennifer Perillo, she of In Jennie's Kitchen fame.  And sadly, made even more well-known, by the sudden death of her husband (and, in a weird coincidence my longtime co-worker/editor at Lifetime) Michael. The night before Jennifer arrived for the Continue Reading

Me, Bobby Flay and Marcella Valladolid eat and get drunk

Sep 29 Posted by nancyjrab 2 Comments

Well, that's not entirely true.  I mean, I did meet Bobby Flay and Marcella Valladolid -- both of them real honest-to-goodness Food Network Stars - but I'm pretty certain that the preternaturally fit and handsome Bobby Flay didn't eat ANY of the food he had us try at the Hellmann's/Share Our Continue Reading

My Dog Has Gone Punk Rock on Me

Apr 20 Posted by nancyjrab Leave a Comment

So I made this really really good meatball dish for dinner. Not that labor intensive (despite the long ingredient list). Needless to say - the hubby forgot to tell me he had a business dinner, my son took one look at it and said he didn't like it, and my daughter and I were left with two dozen Continue Reading

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