Baby Steps
So this will be my first post on a baked-good item. It has only been nearly a year…my falling into any sort of baking habit will be fumbling, like baby steps. I am not scared to bake or horrible at it. The thing is, I...
Don’t Waste a Thing
I must have been about seven at the time because we were living in the house where my brother was born. I recall my sister and I sitting at the kitchen table after dinner with our bowls in front of us being told that...
Panini Madness!!
My parents recently acquired a panini press, courtesy of my aunt who was cleaning out her kitchen. I forewent the kitchen appliance due to lack of space, but I am very glad that I did. In my dad’s hands this became...
The Most Popular Girl At The Office
One day for lunch at a previous place of employment, I absent-mindedly brought leftover fish for lunch to the office. It was cod too. I heated it up in the microwave and a blanket of fish odor wafted from the break...
Brunch Hermit
Perhaps because usually enjoyed on the weekends when we tend to “over-party”, that meal neatly tucked in between breakfast and lunch, brunch, is just as restorative as it is convivial. Warm summer months lend us the...
Heat Wave
Yesterday was HOT. So hot. Romance aside, this month has been a steamy one. Facebook has been burgeoning with pictures of car thermometer readings over 100. People travel to work in as little as they can get away...
To Thailand, With Love
Although it is sunny and 80 degrees outside in Chicago, I wish I could be back here for awhile.
After Work Snack
This recipe is actually from awhile ago, but I thought of it today on the train ride home as I was drifting off for a short nap with Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones, and Butter in my clutch. Not because it was...
