Nothing like serving up breast milk and a bottle of white Burgundy at Happy Hour in the Meatpacking.

Check out my top picks for downtown bars that treat tots and moms with an ounce of kindness…

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Remember the Egg Diet from your early 20’s? (They were cheap, they filled you up and with the money you saved, you bought a new sundress for the weekend party?)

Well the Chicken Burger Diet is for your early 30’s and saving up to buy a house…

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Win a copy of Chef Andrew Carmellini’s gorgeous “Urban Italian” by clicking over to my New York Daily News column and posting a comment about your favorite Italian dish!

And check out my “Gastro Girls” review of his Tribeca restaurant, Locanda Verde.

“My Gastro Girls are a rotating cast of foodie girlfriends who love a good meal as much as I. (Okay, fine, using the world “girls” is a bit liberal… We’re all in our late 20’s/early 30’s with equally stressful jobs, husbands and babies who force us to wake up at 6am no matter how much Barbera we’ve enjoyed the night before… The “girls” prefer Chianti to Cosmos. They read cookbooks like novels. They skip FreshDirect to hunt down weird veggies in Chelsea Market for Friday Night’s pot luck… We like to think of our bi-monthly meetings as a book club for the food-obsessed.”

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“Southerners Brooke Parkhurst and Jamie Briscione have taken the cooking world by storm… So WOMAN’S DAY asked the couple to prepare a special Valentine’s Day menu for two… Put on your aprons and head to the kitchen with your honey to cook up a meal that is sure to warm both your hearts.”

Check out our easy, elegant four-course Valentine’s menu over at Woman’s Day. The smoked salmon pizza is the most elegant little bite–perfect for your man *or* your next Girls Night. Just trust us, we’re the “chef experts” (Ha! That’s what they called us–”chef experts.” Can’t believe it. Going to relish the moment.)

Lately, life has been about as full as our ‘fridge.

I’ve been working on throwing away the smelly stuff (out with the old, in with the vibrant and fresh), organizing bottles (and moments) and taking stock of the ingredients that we really need for this new life of ours.

Oh, and “Full Plate,” my New York Daily News column, has taken over ALL of my free, blogging time… (If you’re ever wondering what I’m up to, and you can’t find it here, click on the right hand-side New York Daily News box for my daily column.)

Anyway, now I find myself “one of three” instead of just one. The moments that used to be mine, I now have to share. I eat, sleep and work being mindful of Jamie and Parker instead of just thinking of myself. I ABSOLUTELY miss the “Me, me, me!” single days. But, I’d never go back (even if you gave me an unlimited house account at Dean & DeLuca.)

Here’s to finding a little time (when Parker naps? when Jamie’s in the shower?) for myself and this blog.

“So what if Summer Finn and Tom Hansen had spent 500 days together and then decided to get married, have a baby, take out a mortgage on a charming little home with a leaky faucet in Highland Park?”

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The cook upstairs. I smell EVERYTHING…

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