You know the story – you’re invited to someone’s house for a big dinner (say, Thanksgiving!) and when you ask what you can bring, they tell you “oh, don’t worry…just bring yourselves!” If you’re like me, you’re not totally comfortable with this. I mean, they are putting out all the effort to feed and entertain […]
Food and Recipes
Grown-Up Food – An Exercise
Randy and I are a part of a fun dinner club (of course we are…) that has gotten together every six weeks or so for the past several years. It is a super casual Sunday night thing where the food is fancy, but the clothes and serving dishes are not. This month we hosted and […]
Sweet & Spicy Asian Noodles Perfect For Any Dinner
I had a horrible realization this weekend. I am in the nesting stage of pregnancy, but I don’t like to clean, nor to organize. When it gets down to it, I (ironically) am not a huge fan of home projects. But I love me some food! I wonder if my version of nesting is to […]
Homemade Peanut Butter Cups
Happy Halloween, y’all! It’s the Great Candy Day, so that means that even though it’s breakfast time as this “goes to print”, you can still be legally snacking on your favorite sugary treat. What’s your favorite? My favorite candy for breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack is the peanut butter cup. I mean, how can you […]
A Bushel of New Ideas for Apples
Tis the season for apple picking! My Facebook feed is bogged down with beautiful pictures of adorable families picking apples and pumpkins at local farms. So cute! So perfect for photo ops, but what do you do with a bushel of apples once you get home? I ended up with about four dozen usable apples […]