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One of my ongoing goals in life is to try one new recipe a week. It doesn’t always happen–sometimes life gets too busy–but starting this goal is how I learned to cook years ago. It keeps me from falling into a rut … Continue

The current Nerd Nest challenge is to document your goals, and as much as I love the idea of just listing out general goals and having that to refer back to, I wanted to document a goal over a longer period of time even more.

One of my ongoing … Continue

This year, I’m trying to make a new meal every week. I’ve had some winners, so I thought I’d share some of the results of a few awesome chicken meals and side dishes with you!

I subscribe to Rachel Ray Everyday magazine and I always try a few recipes out … Continue

March was not the most exciting food month ever. I was working more often AND both of our cars ended up getting wrecked (which made grocery shopping trickier, even after we had a rental car). That translated into fewer home cooked meals and more Chipotle. Jake and I still got … Continue

I’m back again to share our food highlights, this time from the past two weeks (because I missed last weekend). I’ve made it a goal to make at least one new recipe a week, and over the past two weeks I tried three new things.

The first was oat bread… Continue

I was bitten by the gardening bug hard last year, and my gateway plants were herbs. So many herbs. All of the herbs. Okay, that’s a slight hyperbole, but it is not an understatement to say that they took over my front yard. I started my little shoots last March … Continue

This week I don’t have much in the way of dinners to share because my mom, who has been staying with us, took charge this week. So I thought I’d switch it up and share other meals!

Bcause coffee is my favorite edible on the planet, I’m counting coffee dates … Continue

Here are our food highlights lately!

I’ve been trying a new recipe every week, and last week the new thing was buttermilk pancakes. Jake is the official pancake maker in the house, but this week I wanted to try my hand at it. I used the basic recipe from the … Continue

Here are our food highlights lately!

I’ve been trying a new recipe every week, and last week the new thing was Moroccan spice rubbed steak with couscous and roasted veggies. The spice was really the only part that was from a recipe, the rest was from-my-brain-magic. I cut steak into … Continue

We had a good food week around here! We started off with one of my favorites, tequila lime chicken… without the tequila. Because I’ve found that it doesn’t really need it. This meal is one of our family staples; I love how flavorful and simple it is.

We tried … Continue