Happy Thanksgiving Eve! What’s everyone up to today? I am working from home all day and then loading up the (borrowed) car to make the journey from Washington DC to Illinois later tonight. What’s that, you say? It’s a 13 hour drive? Yes I know. We did it last year, and — ironically — swore … Continue reading
Anyone out there hosting Thanksgiving this year? If so, I got two things to say to you. One: Mad props. Until I started spending significant time in the kitchen, I don’t think I ever had the slightest idea of how big of a task hosting Thanksgiving dinner was. Even when I’m just having a handful … Continue reading
So today’s kindof a good-news, bad-news day for me. The good? No work. The bad? I am finally sucking it up and getting my wisdom teeth out. Booooooo. Have you guys all done this? I feel like I’m pretty late to the wisdom-teeth-out party. They’ve never especially bothered me, and none of them are impacted, … Continue reading
I decided to make this bread as a yummy weekend baking project (and, spoiler alert, it was outstanding). While I was in the kitchen putting everything together, I kept hearing my husband chuckling to himself on the couch. What was so funny!? I demanded to know from the kitchen. Well, it was this. Do you … Continue reading
I love learning exotic new words, but I hate that belated discovery that I’ve been pronouncing them wrong. Was I the only one who got through four Harry Potter books before learning that Hermione is pronounced her-MY-oh-knee? I suppose this doesn’t make much sense in retrospect, but in my head, I always called her HERM-uh-ween. … Continue reading
Am I the only one who automatically word-associates lasagna with Garfield? I think it’s because we didn’t have lasagna much when I was growing up (as my mom has issues with ricotta cheese), but I sure did read read Garfield comic books over and over and over. Even better than Garfield, though, was Calvin and … Continue reading
Is Thanksgiving breakfast a thing? No, right? You eat the smallest breakfast possible so you have maximum stomach room later in the day, right? Well, shoot. So, if Thanksgiving breakfast were a thing, this would be what you would make for it. This is like…stupid good. Ever since I got my Kitchenaid stand mixer, I’ve … Continue reading
When I was a nervous and fairly timid college freshman, I got a job working for the college yearbook. I know that sounds like not a real job at all, but it was actually moderately intense in retrospect (and insanely intense at the time). It was a paid job, in that I got paid $92 … Continue reading
This rich, decadent dessert presented me with what may be the ultimate food blogger’s dilemma: what do you do when you make something completely delicious and worth sharing immediately, but you don’t get an absolutely perfect photo of it? Do you earmark the recipe to make again soon, with the hopes of obtaining a more … Continue reading
The other day as I was riding the subway home from work, I heard something really fascinating that I don’t think I had ever heard before — two women, who were both clearly fluent in both English and Spanish, having a conversation and seamlessly slipping from one language to the other, usually within the same … Continue reading
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