It's Thursday, which means its time for the weekly Farmer's Market.  Here's a recipe that takes advantage of the fresh produce sold there. Salads are not only healthy and flavorful, but they also compliment any lunch or dinner meal. The vegetables contain vitamins and eating them helps prevent many diseases. You should include a salad with at least one meal every day. The summer months are the best time of year to get the freshest produce at local farms or in your neighborhood supermarket. Here's a great salad that can be made quickly any day.    Easy Summer Salad  Ingredients  1/2 of a head …

The Short Hills Mall was all abuzz Friday.  At 11 a.m. the line started forming. By 4 p.m. it stretched from Williams Sonoma to Sak’s Fifth Avenue and security was tight. Two friends with babies in strollers, said they'd been there since 1 p.m.  Three hours into it they were still smiling and happily waiting.  Everyone was excited. Why was everyone there? To see Academy Award Winning actress, Gwyneth Paltrow.  Williams Sonoma hosted Paltrow, who came to sign copies of her new cookbook "My Father’s Daughter. " Surprised? Lately Paltrow has been showcasing her other talents besides acting.  She…

When I opened the email asking if I wanted to take a Passover cooking class at the JCC, I was just opening up all the windows on the first floor after turning my kids’ frozen pizza into a burnt offering.  My editor at Livingston Patch is wonderful, brilliant and apparently has a wicked sense of humor since I’ve written before that I am a culinary catastrophe. Make that a renowned culinary catastrophe. People do not come to my house for the food. But sure, I was willing, as long as 1) Patch was footing the bill 2)  I could get childcare  3)  the JCC had stomach pumps on site.  Patch was kind …