• Remembering Susan Niebur

    Today fellow Washington D.C. blogger Susan Niebur took her last breath after a long, painful, arduous battle with inflammatory breast cancer. Honor her and take a few minutes to learn about the type of breast cancer, which over 100,000 women are currently struggling with. Susan wrote this. The last time…

  • Slow Cooker Beef Pot Roast

    It’s Super Bowl Sunday and good, organized home chefs across the country have been preparing their “Big Game” meal all week, carefully planning out the menu and making sure to include some sort of football theme. (Snicker.) But then there are others, like me, who have done nothing. No planning.…

  • Brunch at Isabella’s in Downtown Frederick

    We all get into ruts, not that it’s bad all the time, but it still prevents us from being daring and innovative sometimes. And by “us” I mean “me.” Anytime for the past year that I’ve been able to sneak away for brunch on the weekend, I’ve found myself at Cafe “Business…

  • Chocolate Orange Cheesecake

    This chocolate orange cheesecake is creamy, fragrant and super easy to make! Cheesecake. Some people I know claim to hate it. Yes, really they do. I often wonder if cheesecake-haters have just yet to try a really good cheesecake. Or, maybe they’ve only tried New York-style cheesecake, and they don’t…

  • Stuffed Chicken Parm

    Stuffed chicken parm is an ooey-gooey twist on an Italian classic. If your family’s anything like mine, then gooey, melty cheese stuffed into the middle of any other food is considered awesome. Meatloaf or burgers, bread, mushrooms—the list could go on and on. I don’t disagree. I happen to love…