Happy Friday, and first day of June! JUNE? June! This is when I start to panic that the summer is going to fly by before I get a chance to really savor and enjoy it. Isn’t that sick? That said,...
I’m just going to come right out with it. I have a recipe you need to try. Like, abandon your plans for the evening and go out to get the ingredients for this mouthwatering summer lasagna right...
After a truly epic homemade pupusa recipe fail today (I’m officially leaving that one to the experts!) I decided to scrap a dinner post in favor of sharing a fantastic tip for adding tons of vo...
My inner goddess has been giving me her best frowny face all day in response to this weekend’s shenanigans. Between indulging in a 6-layer ice cream sandwich dessert (layer ice cream sandwiches...
Happy Memorial Day – hope you’ve had a nice long weekend! These past few days have felt extra looooong, for whatever reason, but hey – I am not complaining. My Mom and I kicked the ...
Howdy friends, and happy Friday (finally, sheesh!) I was suffering from day later syndrome all this week – thinking Wednesday was Thursday, and so on and so forth and, like, such as – whi...
I can’t believe it’s been an entire week since I was in adult Disneyland northern California’s wine country, sipping wine, and having lunch under the sun with the fine folks of Flip...
Ben and I were up circa 3am this morning to get to the KCCI studios, unpack, and get situated in time to kick off my Fresh & Flavorful Memorial Day Menu segments starting at 5:10am! Usually I coo...
***Looking for the Fresh Memorial Day Menu recipes you saw on KCCI this morning? Click here for the recipes!*** It appears I have a wee problem on my hands. No, wait, that didn’t come out right...
And to think there was a time when I thought I’d never be able to eat another ham & cheese sandwich ever again for as long as I lived! It was 2003, and I was working as a summer camp counse...
Modern travel never ceases to amaze me. Friday afternoon I was thoroughly enjoying a private wine tasting session with David Georges under a long, ivy-covered arbor in the middle of a vineyard in nor...
Over the river lakes, and through the woods plains, To Grandmother’s house Flipflop Wines’ Headquarters we go! Greetings from Livermore, CA, home of Flipflop Wines, where I arrived yester...
I don’t know about you, but Wednesday nights were one of the busiest nights of the week at my house when I was growing up. Between church youth group, dance, and DJ’ing (yeeeah, my older ...
One of my favorite parts of the day occurs very early – we’re talking sub 6am here – when my Mom and meet to go on a walk around the neighborhood each morning. She drives over from ...
Last year I made a wretchedly shameful confession on this blog. I am totally guilty of going to the Farmers’ Market on Saturday mornings, not buying a thing, then going to the grocery store the...
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mamas! Bud vases are the new rage! says my Mama, regarding the little gift she designed for my sister-in-law in honor of the holiday, filled with flowers snipped f...
***This giveaway is now closed. Thank you for entering!*** Oh, hi – happy Friday! Our gorgeous week is supposed to turn into an even more beautiful weekend, so I’m hoping to resurrect Ben...
After two epic failures in the kitchen this week (Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken that turned into shoe leather, and a Mango Lassi that tasted like air) I was semi scrambling to find something to share with ...
I was out for a run on the trail the other day when I came up behind an older gentleman wearing a shiny blue baseball jacket and ball cap, strolling, as many men his age do, with both hands clasped t...
If you’re anything like me, you’re always searching for a way to spice up plain ‘ol chicken breasts for dinner. Well look no further my friends, as I’ve got a doozie of a reci...
We’re crossing all kinds of things off the domestic bucket list around here. First, planting a vegetable garden (see below for instructions) and now, making risotto! PS: please tell me I’...
We drilled… We dug… We finally conquered my raised vegetable garden today! More on that in a sec… First, hi! How was your weekend? This was the first weekend around here that really...
Say it with me now – T.G.I.F! Last night my parents and I attended one of the local Farmer’s Markets that just opened up for the season. Look who we ran into while we were there – Q...
Once upon a time I had a college roommate who believed she could will herself skinny, simply by the power of positive thinking.* Ah, dare to dream! She insisted she never gained weight from the horri...
Fire up the grill for a hand-held, soup-inspired, fantastic grilled supper: Stuffed French Onion Soup Sliders! Think savory French Onion Soup – beefy broth, sweet caramelized onions, melted che...
A couple weeks ago I stopped by my parent’s house and found my Mom sitting at the kitchen table flipping through an old binder of the quick and easy recipes she made when my brothers and I were...
Howdy all – hope you had a nice weekend! It ended up being dreary and drizzly around here, so Ben and I laid low, spent some time with friends and family, ate at Jethro’s Jambalaya twice,...
***Looking for the recipe you saw on KCCI this morning? Click for Thai Chicken Lettuce Cups with Mango Salsa!*** Happy Friday, everyone! Well I survived another segment on KCCI. Katie Ward (who’...
***Looking for the recipe you saw on KCCI this morning? Click for Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps with Mango Salsa!*** Raise your hand if you don’t feel like making dinner tonight! Oh, ok. Wow. That...
The weather is playing all kinds of tricks on the Midwest, and quite frankly, my taste buds don’t know what to do about it. After several weeks of rain and cold, when all I wanted to do was cur...
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