Facebook friends. Mostly they make me feel unproductive, unsexy, and unsmart. They are always DOING things, looking CUTE, and posting links to interesting articles or pulling out pithy quotes that I’m unsure if they made up themselves or lifted from Eleanor Roosevelt. But, being a pretty unaffected-by-others person, I love me some Facebook. While these […]
Baked Lemon Parmesan Risotto
Today’s recipe is brought to you by the letters L, A, Z, and Y. This is risotto for people who don’t want to babysit their dinner, who want to set it and forget it and pull it out after an hour in the oven with only ONE stir mid-way! This is risotto for lazy people. […]
Saturday Sweets: HOMEMADE MARSHMALLOWS (NO EGGS)
I’ve posted homemade marshmallows before. For someone who had only ever tasted (and not liked) store bought marshmallows, they were a revelation in what a marshmallow is supposed to be. I can’t go back to store bought ones, and homemade ones are such an easy and fun science experiment that they are well worth the […]
Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Dip
I’ve been seeing cookie dough dip variations everywhere lately, on Pinterest, other blogs, and even when hanging out with my big sister. If you’re like most people I love, finding a way to legitimately eat massive quantities of cookie dough as an appetizer sounds like a great idea. And you’d be right. My sister makes […]
First on the First: Dark Chocolate Soufflés
Confession: it’s First on the First time, when we try something new and scary in the kitchen, or something we’ve been putting off, or something we’ve just never done homemade, but this month’s challenge isn’t a first for me. Souffles are definitely the stuff of legend in my mind, but I’ve made these about half […]
Turkey & Sausage Jambalaya
When someone asks me at work if it’s ok for them to paint while pregnant, I feel like they think they are looking at an 8- month-pregnant party girl with a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other. Really, are you asking me, in my obviously pregnant state, if it’s ok for […]
Basic Homemade Granola
I used to be a honey-hater. Turns out I was buying the wrong honey, and getting the wrong impression from those horrid yellow and black fuzzy jackets. Don’t judge a book by it’s fashion, I suppose. Something like that. When you’re incubating a small one and want it to come out with all the appropriate […]
Carrot Lentil Soup
Yesterday I went to my first day of school, for about the 30th time, and it was as good as ever, even if I was showing up in a minivan. I absolutely love fresh, clean, lined paper, new pens that flow smoothly over the page, and the slightly overwhelmed feeling I get when I look […]
Saturday Sweets: Honey Yogurt Cheesecake
Let me start off by saying that this was not my favourite dessert ever. Normally I’m all “oh-so-delicious”, “must-make”, “best thing ever”! and I totally mean all those things. So I want to be completely upfront so you know you can trust me all those other times – straight up, this was a dessert I […]
Apple Rhubarb Crisp (Gluten Free)
Saturday! It’s my first official Saturday of always-working-Saturdays along with my other days since I’ve decided to buckle down and see if I can’t get my 600 hours in to qualify for maternity leave again…3 months to go, so as long as I can work till mid-October I should be fine! Who says no to […]
