I have felt like I have been in a cooking slump. I get spoiled sometimes when I don’t make dinner for more than two days. One of those days was eating the perfectly presented and prepared wedding lunch this past Saturday.

My solution-get out my Everyday Food magazines-I have over a year’s worth (plus the paperback cookbook) and chose a few new recipes to try each time I go to the store so I can pick up what I need. You know it worked! I chose two pasta dishes, one of which I made tonight-Pasta with roasted asparagus and feta cheese sauce. It was easy to make and I really like the roasted asparagus! The top is sprinkled with fresh chives out of Sean’s garden.

It was really good and I feel inspired now. I know the guys will eat pasta in almost any form.

And just for fun-here’s one of the three Black & White cookies we bought in NYC. They are so good! They are more cake-like and the icing is firm.

So off this food talk and on to congrats to my friend Barbara and her husband Niek on her recent announcement that they are expecting twins in December. That will make 5 kiddos for them!

Be sure to check out my Vod:Pod videos as there are some ‘recuts’ of well known movie ‘trailers’, making them either funny or scary, but not what the original movie was at all! I’ve been sitting here chuckling the last hour or so.