The in between. The what is and what is not. The gray area. The glass that is both half empty & half full.  The I’m kind of fat, but not really.  Current. Mood. I think I finally figured out why someone out there decided to make an Advent calendar. Something needs to hold me […]

        I have a love/hate relationship when it comes to traditional “Cajun” cuisine. You would think it would be more of a love/love due to the very fact that I go weak at the knees for some good heat and well seasoned food. But there’s something, I just can’t put my finger on […]

I don’t know about your household, but mine is always overflowing with leftovers. I mean, it’s just me, and it’s very difficult sometimes to cut my recipes in half and cook for two. Well in this case, one. Whenever I recipe develop I like to try and cook all meals for a group of 4-6, […]

    Why is it at the end of the day, that whenever I know I have a mouth watering home cooked meal in the fridge leftover from a morning slaving away in the kitchen, I end up sitting down with a big glass of wine and a big ol’ bowl of popcorn. If it makes […]

  Happy Monday (said no one ever). Especially a Monday that has followed a weekend filled with belligerence and over indulgence of Halloween candy. It left me with a headache, a belly ache and mouth sores. Way to go America! It also left me feeling incredibly lazy and not wanting to make any home cooked meal. […]

  Happy Hallows Eve! I remember back in high school my girlfriends and I decided to go around tossing eggs at kids who were vandalizing homes. We didn’t even make it past the first egg after an attempted toss which landed on the ceiling of my car, as oppose to out the window. That was embarrassment […]

  Why is it that when I basically drop a frying pan while my son is sleeping it doesn’t disturb him however when I literally hold a sneeze in all hell breaks loose.  Arghhhhhhhhhh.  I’m going on basically zero-none sleep currently and loads beyond loads of caffeine is fueling my current state of mind. Heartburn […]

    Has a movie ever enraptured you so much that you feel like you’ve actually been there? Or you can physically picture yourself as a character in the film? I have a movie that does that to me almost every time and I swear it leaves me on cloud nine for a couple of […]