One of our favorite recipes to make as the temperature begins to drop is Ina Garten's Easy Tomato Soup & Grilled Cheese Croutons. With two working parents and two young kids, any recipe with the word "easy" in the title is a winner in our house. What I love most about the Barefoot Contessa is how direct she is. In many of her recipes (this one included) she urges you to use "good" ingredients, like "good olive oil." This may sound like obvious advice, but I feel like this

Earlier this evening, completely unprompted, Sam, excitedly chirped, “I have an idea for your next blog post!” It could have been inspired by the weather, or the Giants game on tonight, but I had no reason to object! Fall is trying really hard to make an appearance in these parts, and we are cheering for it. I am going to let Sam take it from here… “Last night’s post was about food. In a Higgins’ house, where there is food there are drinks… and on a rainy fall night, there is

As you will quickly learn in this space, I am not very inspired in the kitchen. I am, however, married to a fantastic cook, and will be his sous-chef (or wine drinker and pandora DJ) for life. We had family in town this weekend for a wedding and I urged Sam to keep it simple. He accepted the challenge and threw this old favorite together but made a few tweaks. He served it room temperature as a side to chicken cutlets and it was a huge hit and probably one of my favorite