simple recipes + simple ingredients
Try as I may to keep our little kitchen stocked with fresh meals and snacks, there are times when things get a little busy. As a result, we have mornings like yesterday where I wake up and find the trail of breakfast my husband ate before leaving for work. Yesterday morning’s breakfast consisted of a well-balanced, nutritional combination of Milano…
You do not want to make this cake. I repeat: you do NOT want to make this cake. It is not rich or moist or made with luscious chocolate with subtle hints of coffee… …it is not topped with a creamy or decadent mocha buttercream frosting… …or filled with an extra layer of light and airy frosting. It is not…
I am a self-proclaimed Harry Potter nerd. When the final books were being released, I’d pre-order my copy and spend the entire weekend in bed reading the book cover-to-cover. I would run around the house after our family chihuahua and toss him a sock and cry, “Dobby is freeeee!” And I have plans to spend my 30th birthday at Harry…
There’s a popular quote which states: “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” I have my own variation of this quote which states: “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about organizing all the closets in your house and spending time with your puppy and making salmon…
This is going down as one of the most difficult things to photograph and look presentable. Partly because I keep nibbling from the pan as I photograph and partly because…well, let’s face it, meatloaf is not the most riveting thing to shoot. But goodness, this is a wonderful recipe! We ate our meatloaf with sauteed lemon garlic green beans and…
I am lucky to have a husband who is a runner. Tyler is currently training for his fourth (say what?!) marathon in December and he’s getting to the point in his training where he has one really long run a week. Why does this make me lucky? Because this means once a week we carbo-load. I don’t run. I don’t…
Frito Pie is one of those classic childhood meals that never fails to bring back fond memories. (It’s right up there with Dunkaroos, Bubblegum tape, and Surge. Hey, whatever happened to 3-D Doritos?!) As a kid, there was something about being able to create my own delicious dinner and spoon the warm chili over the baked corn chips and then…
