So… things are pretty cray right now in the Land of New Home-ness. Not Home-LESS-ness. We do have a home. That’s not confusing at all. The outside may look all cool, calm and collected right now, but the inside looks like… well, it looks like a lot of boxes. We’ve got some work to do. [...]
So. The next time I decide I’m going to tackle The Perfect Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread the WEEK we’re moving (ergo, our apartment looks like the morning after a tornado/hurricane/thundersnow storm/war battle of the century), please tell me not to do it. Please tell me that’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard. Please tell me [...]
This is what summer’s about. It’s about ice-cold drinks and hot dogs, sprinklers and sparklers, sunburns and sunsets. It’s about friends and family, road trips and staycations, catching fireflies and throwing baseballs. It’s about joy and playfulness and praying you put on enough sunscreen so you don’t look like a lobster like you did that [...]
Before this relationship goes any further, there’s something you should know about me: I’m not a fan of the chocolate-raspberry combo. Something about the mixture of tart raspberries with any type of chocolate — milk, dark, ESPECIALLY white (which, blech, isn’t even REAL chocolate… who thought this was a good idea? A plague on thy [...]
Hello, friends! I’m spending the better part of this week cleaning out our future house (so excited! gah!), so the meals are going to be quick, easy and (cough) not all homemade. But tonight’s recipe was, in fact, made from scratch by my mama — and it was oh so delicious. It was the perfect [...]
I’ve been listening to the same playlist for the last oh, I don’t know, forever. I’ve got the songs down pat by now. I could sing them in my sleep. I could sing them in my sleep while doing the moonwalk to their rhythms (ending each song with double dream hands, natch). You’d think I’d [...]
There are few foods the husband has consumed in his past that he still talks about to this day: A lobster souffle he made himself when he was younger (just let me know when you’d like to make that for me, too, dear), gazpacho, his sister’s creme de menthe cake, his grandma’s Swedish meatballs, steak [...]