It’s Our Birthday: All Month Long

We are celebrating our 1-year birthday of being in the blogosphere on December 16th. To commemorate the occasion on Fridays we are highlighting our favorite blogs, Torture Reports and other postings that happened this year. We will share our top five every Friday. If we miss one that you particularly enjoyed, feel free to share…

Nothing Says Thanksgiving like… Lasagna?

In the last few years, since I started eating a plant-based diet I am the maker of my own food on Thanksgiving. It’s a nice way to experiment and come up with new things each year. Since I was already making food for our Thanksgiving meal, John asked if I would make “lasagna” for him….

Happy Thanksgiving! Share Your Photos

Through the month of November we have started each week sharing with you some of our favorite elements of Thanksgiving. As we all get ready to dig in to the good eats on Thursday we are sharing some holiday photo favorites. We’d love for you to share yours as well either here on our site…

Psst: The Christmas Eve Drawing is Rigged!

All of my memories of Thanksgiving growing up, center around my grandparents’ farmhouse. This was where all of our holidays were celebrated, and since I moved before circumstances changed this tradition, this is where my memory of Thanksgiving will reside forever. I love that. What I remember most is lots of family, which is probably…

Best Memories of Thanksgiving: 5-mile run, flower girls and food!

(G) Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays. I am guessing it’s because there isn’t any actual shopping that needs to get done but more importantly I LOVE to EAT! That said, I am sure there are some equally enjoyable Thanksgivings to share but one of my faves happened almost 14 years ago…

Pray before your “grub”

A few years ago it was decided that my husband, Johnny Armani, would be the best person to say grace at Thanksgiving. John, however, delivered more than my mom anticipated. First, he offered up a brief prayer and then he added a little something extra for our niece Ava. He shared the following prayer: Rub-a-dub-dub,…