LAY OFF ME I’M STARVING…. “Diet Starts Monday”.     I find myself quoting Chris Farley with SNL “Gap Girls” almost every Friday of every single weekend, since I can remember. And you know what happens on Monday? All I think about is the “diet” that I told myself I would begin while drinking some […]

It’s strange to sit back and look at your life and try to figure out how you got to where you are today. Currently I’m sitting back (with a glass of wine the size of Dark Helmets dome piece) and am trying to figure out just that. I don’t regret anything, I’ve done regrets before […]

Aside from my habitual baking I try to cook my main meals a little on the “healthier” side. Healthy as in home cooked with whole ingredients. My grandpa always said when you enter the grocery store, only shop the perimeters. This forces you away from most packaged and processed options. If i didn’t follow his rules […]

  Well butter my buns and call me a biscuit! How have I never made cultured butter before? Not only that but how have I never made good old fashioned buttermilk? I didn’t even know it was possible. OH but it is. So very possible. And so very easy. Just takes a little bit of […]

I have been redoing my Aunts kitchen cabinets and I no joke believe I have early onset arthritis in my wrists. And my ass. If that is even physically possible. I don’t even know why my rear end is included in the pain, but it is. The struggle is real. At first I thought it […]

I love that God gave us four seasons. I also love that each season holds a different place in my heart. Fall taking up the majority of its space, but the others take their place at some point in time. There is something about crisp fallen leaves on the ground, the crunchy sound they make […]

Until recently fresh figs to me were the forbidden fruit. I could go to a restaurant and see them on the menu and instantly want all of it. And i always wanted more. But for some reason I never thought that I could actually purchase the fruit myself and use it for my own personal […]