Welcome

Let me tell you a bit about myself. I am a full-time mom and part-time optometrist. My optometrist husband and our two little girls live in central New Jersey with our two cats. We live the typical suburban life.

Is it just me, or do other moms feel that they need at least two more hours in their day? It is absolutely crazy how I run around all day, from the moment the kids get up until they go to bed. It's already 10:20 P.M., I have to get up at 6:30 on Saturday (yuck..i will never get used to that, even after 12 years in my profession). I REALLY should go to bed right now. But instead I am discovering a new way to fuel my internet addiction.

My goal here is to have a place to write down all those little pesky bits of information that I yearn to pass on to SOMEONE. If I discover something new that works in the kitchen, or with the kids, I can't wait to share it with someone. And sometimes I just need to vent a little. This is not the type of info one would immediately get on the phone and yap to their friends, but it's stuff that would be useful at some point to somebody. So if you want to read this, great! I hope you glean something from it. Otherwise, this blog may just serve as a place for me to archive stuff and vent a little. That's fine with me.

Recipe Ramble of the Day:

It's Passover, and one dish I will make for the family (and my mom made when i was a kid) was something called "Hamburgers, Potatoes and Onions". It basically involves cooking down some onions, throwing in some hamburger patties, browning the patties and then covering and cooking until the hamburgers are done. after that, you remove the burgers, cook the onions some more and toss in some boiled cut up potatoes. Pretty good comfort food, except that the hamburgers resemble hockey pucks when done, in taste and texture. Gordon Ramsay would throw them against the wall in a second (gotta watch Hell's Kitchen to appreciate).

Today I did something a little different. I've read in a few magazines about adding bread soaked in a little milk to a meat mixture to make it moist. so I took the ground beef, added a couple of spoonfuls of matzoh meal and a little bit of milk (ok, not kosher, but i'm not). You could probably use a little broth instead. Then I formed burgers and cooked as usual. The burgers were SO much better!!