Little life update: My in-laws are currently living with me. They uprooted their lives in Colorado, moved across the country to the great state of Missouri, and are living with us while they look for a new place to live (Hi guys!). Being a true midwest hostess, I am now cooking non-stop. I can’t possibly let […]
Everybody knows that muffins are cupcakes in disguise. I’ll never understand how they managed to trick all of us. Just remove the frosting and suddenly it is acceptable to eat them for breakfast or as a snack? The average muffin recipe is still full of butter and sugar. Those sneaky little things deserve a round […]
I love coffee, and I love coffee people. It seems to me, based on my very unofficial and purely anecdotal research, that you’re either a hot coffee person or an iced coffee person, but few are both. Now, I don’t want to brag, but I have the great fortune of loving both hot and iced […]
Going out to brunch on the weekends is definitely on our top ten “remember how great life was before COVID” list. Brunch was the best meal of the week. You get to sleep in, it is acceptable for you to attend in borderline pajamas, and you are with your closest friends (only serial killers go […]
Thanks to an episode of Gilligan’s Island, I grew up with the wholehearted belief that Eating More Carrots = Having Amazing Eyesight. (Never mind the fact that the carrots on this particular Gilligan’s Island episode were grown from radioactive seeds that mysteriously washed ashore and gave Mary Ann superhuman seeing powers.) I wasn’t the only […]
Eight. That is how many times I’ve baked banana bread this year. It seems banana bread has become our universal coping skill while we all struggle to survive the pandemic. Since we are spending more time than ever inside (and my exercise routine seems to have gone AWOL), I realized I needed to switch over […]