Ahhhhh it’s September (way to point out the obvious Julia) and I’m 100 percent pushing summer out the door like it ain’t no thang. Goodbye sweat stains in strange places, you have been anything but kind to me, and I blame you for my nonexistent dating life (kidding, I blame a ton of other stuff […]

Pinch me, please. Okay, that’s enough cyber pinching. But yes, I still am dreaming about this event I was invited to be apart of by Alive Magazine for a dinner on the orchard at Eckerts Farm in Illinois and I still can’t get over the beauty, mood and the food from that evening. Granted I spent the […]

  I feel like the title is  mouthful enough that I am going to spare you on a story / rant that would probably (more than likely) be about my soft spots, cold weather (ummm December is supposed to be cold? Like we live in the midwest… what?…..), and my cobweb of a love life […]

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, […]

    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 […]

I hesitated adding the “No Cream” bit to the header above. I didn’t want to scare anyone. Sometimes, at least in my opinion, right away when something says “healthy” or “no cream” I automatically set the recipe up for failure. I’m like, there is no way this is going to taste good if a) it’s […]

Poor don’t buy rich. Wise words spoken by my father when listening to me ramble on about some things that I wanted.  He couldn’t be more right (insert violin solo here).      But poor does go out to dinner with parents knowing that they will be picking up the bill. Boo-yah. My parents were […]

Ahhh this weekend gave me a run for my money. I had my entire family in town due to a death in the family and when you have an Irish funeral, your liver along with the scale goes out the window. Which sounds pretty much like my life on an every day basis, but it […]