Welcome!
EATSTogether is brought to you by a family who loves to cook and eat together: my family. Here you will find my blog articles on everything food. Also, enjoy many of our family’s favorite recipes and learn our strategies for sharing as many meals as possible with family and friends. I hope you will share your tips and experiences, too. I’m aways eager to know what you like, what you want to see more of and how and with whom you eat together – feel free to email me or comment throughout the site.

Featured Recipe
More Recipes From Our Kitchen…
Jim’s Texas Chili
The tradition of chili on Halloween started with my parents when my sister and I were growing up. It is the perfect meal before or after (or both!) trick-or-treating on a cold October night. Made in the afternoon, the chili stays on the stove and can be reheated...
read moreNeopolitan Pizza Crust
This pizza crust is crunchy with just a little chew and wonderfully versatile! It is a family affair when we make extra crusts and freeze them for easy weeknight meals. Kids love the dough toss step and this has even been a popular birthday party activity! From a...
read moreCoconut Macaroons
These melt-in-your-mouth meringues are a super easy to make and always a big hit for coconut lovers! (If you're like Grandma Izzie, who wouldn't touch the stuff, these are not for you. As the story goes, she and her brother, Great Uncle George, swiped a whole pound of...
read moreTable Talk
EATS Reads 10 Delicious Book Picks
Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, all these books are fantastic reads! ts. Chocolat by Joanne Harris The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Fried Green Tomatoes and the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flag Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel The Hundred Foot Journey by...
read moreLessons in the Garden
The trees are budding and the sprouts are in the windowsill, soon it will be time to plant our garden. Below is a brief history of my "gardening" life. Do you grow things to eat in the summer? What do you grow and why? I'd love to learn from your experiences! I grew...
read moreThe Great St. Paddy’s Day Inferno
St. Patrick’s Day at the McGuire’s —it was going to be grand! Five couples plus ourselves would gather in the dining room of our newly built home to enjoy some traditional Irish fare. It was our first real dinner party in the home that we had spent the previous year...
read more