Articles By: Tracy Bermeo
It’s Nursery School Registration Time
While it may seem early, it’s time to register for nursery school for the fall. And if you have a child who turned two recently, this is good news. This year, the MyVeronaNJ.com team has made it even easier for prospective families to find the right school for their child. We’ve created a Nursery School Guide, [...]
Crock It! Corn Bread Casserole
If you have ever had a Mozzarepa at a New York City street fair, you are going to want to try this recipe. Not sure what a Mozzarepa is? If you’re a fan of corn and cheese, which I am, then this wonderful “street food” is for you. Picture a large corn bread pancake with [...]
Crock It! Chicken And Tortellini Soup
Once the weather gets cold, I’m a soup girl, but there are two challenges that come with one of my favorite types of meals. My first challenge is creating a variety of soups– I get bored. I easily have five or six cookbooks for just soups and a plethora of other cookbooks that have soup [...]
Crock It! Spice-Rubbed Slow Cooked Chicken
At the end of this past summer, I was fortunate enough to receive a food gift: frying peppers from my brother-in-law’s garden. I don’t know how he does it, but all of his vegetables grow well and are delicious. I figured I had two choices with the peppers, saute them with onions and serve with sausage, or have [...]
Winter Break: Citi Pond At Bryant Park
Our first trip to Citi Pond at Bryant Park was two years ago. We stumbled on it while in Manhattan when my mother-in-law was visiting. I was immediately taken with the idea of skating outdoors in a place not nearly as crowded and over populated as Rockefeller Center. Having grown up in Montclair, I used to [...]
Cookies Of Verona: Christmas Spritz Cookies
Baking with kids at Christmas time can be fun, daunting, adorable, and messy. I love baking with my kids, but let’s face it, if I’m not prepared for the mess and I am not feeling patient, it can be disasterous. One thing that makes it a little easier is having a kid friendly recipe. In [...]
Christmas Countdown
How do you count down to Christmas? In our house, it’s no surprise that Legos are involved. Even with a plethora of Lego bricks, wheels, random pieces, and unnameable Lego Hero Factory body parts strewn through my house, I’m still just as much a sucker for a good Lego building project as my 8-year-old son. [...]
Win A Membership To The Montclair Y
I have spent many years (probably too many to legitimately count) enjoying my holiday shopping. That is partially because I like to shop in the “one for you, one for me” style. Sometimes that involves shoes, sometimes a scarf, and sometimes chocolate. Well, the chocolate part actually starts around Halloween (ok, three weeks prior) and [...]
Holiday Lights At Turtle Back Zoo
Just after Thanksgiving, Turtle Back Zoo kicked off its fifth annual holiday lights show. The last time we attended this event, it was three years ago, and it was much colder! Traipsing around the zoo in the dark was fun for both kids and adults. This year we had an added surprise, and it was [...]
Crock It! Emergency Pork Chops
I shouldn’t have been surprised when Thanksgiving arrived on the third Thursday of November; it always does. Every year. Same time. What I had trouble with was efficient dinner planning that also involved avoiding poultry. Enter: my Crock Pot. With increasingly busy afternoons and less time to plan ahead for dinner, I have a feeling [...]