A Sunday in Autumn: Recipe

Blogging every day is tough business. Today, Sunday, while I’m on a beautiful college campus in the Midwest, I am leaving you with one of my favorite fall/winter Sunday night recipes.

It’s easy and who doesn’t like pasta? Kind of like making a risotto and even though it looks like it won’t turn out, I promise it will.

My kids have always liked it too. To them it tastes like cheesy penne but it’s so much more satisfying. Sometimes I serve it with chicken/beef and a salad but if it’s just hubby and me, it’s just pasta and greens (you know those waistlines ;-).

Let me know what you think.

Write On Edge: Writing Goals

Write On Edge would like to know what our writing ambitions and goals are in 300 words or less. Mine is really very basic but a goal none the less: What I'm really, really good at is throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks. I'm Italian so there's lots of that. I may be patting myself on the back in this area. I generally have lots of ideas that translate into decent writing. Therein lies the problem. I never feel that it's enough. That my final product is good enough, clever enough, touching enough.... What to do about that? Do I keep writing as I am or do I change it up? My writing goal is to begin changing it up. Break out of my comfort zone and instead of writing mostly non-fiction, use what I know about life, God knows I lived long enough to know a lot, and turn it into engaging fiction. I need to break out of my square box and begin testing my wings of creativity. I know for a fact I can make up all kinds of things and I can verbally tell a funny tale. Just ask my friends and my kids who think I'm crazy. That's what I'm going to try and that will be my goal... Get the crazy (good crazy) out there on paper instead of letting it only reside in my brain or in the stories I tell people through my spoken words. I need to throw a different shape of pasta against the wall. One that's better than decent!