Archive for November, 2009

With our recent rash of food-related posts, I wasn’t going to bore you with a long thread of all the things we make for Thanksgiving. However, it is like the food holiday of the year, and…well…I can’t resist. Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday and the start of the fast-paced, “look now or you’ll [...]

A year ago after reading AJ Jacobs’s A Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, I heard through the grapevine that his former assistant Kevin Roose was had just completed a book detailing what it was like to spend a semester attending Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University as [...]

Neil loves coffee, that’s no mystery. I love coffee too, but I like foo-foo coffee. Concoctions with non-coffee flavors, and obscene amounts of chocolate or candy. I don’t sip, I gulp. I savor the whipped cream and chocolate shavings and am almost brought to tears when the cup is nearly empty. In my teeth-grinding attempt [...]

This is by far, our favorite winter crock pot recipe. We traditionally make it on New Years as the main dish, and it is always a hit. You can mash up some of the beans and add a few pinches of flour if you like it a bit more thick. I have found that if [...]

So we had a lot of left over jalapeños from the garden and we really did not want them to go to waste so being that I love spicy food I suggested we try making our own jalapeno poppers!
Well, when searching for the right recipe I was really not too excited about making a meal that requires [...]

This is definitely a unique one. Clever title, definitely wining points for unexpected appearance. I’ve never heard of beet crust, but it has my curiosity peaked for sure. Would you try it?
{Via The Cooking Photographer, found on Tastespotting}

Winter

In: Photography| Weather

17 Nov 2009

{Image via DonkerDink}
All this rain just makes me wish for it to be snow. I love when it snows at night and it feels like the world just gets small and more intimate. You can go outside and not hear a single sound, and everything looks brighter. Better than grey anyhow.

Pumpkin Muffins (+Raisins-Walnuts) {via Cake Batter & Crumbs}

Grandma

In: Family

12 Nov 2009

My grandmother (mother’s mother) passed away yesterday afternoon. My aunt and grandpa had left to run an errand in town. She hasn’t been mobile for the past year or so, so she remained behind, recovering from a nasty recent battle with pneumonia. They returned to find she had passed quietly, as if she like always [...]

3 Years

In: Weekend| relationship

11 Nov 2009

Neil and I on our first vacation together in Florida (2007)

I have a real hard time giving up the day Neil and I became a couple for the day we got married as our anniversary. The day we got together was a proclamation to everyone what we knew from day one, which just happens to [...]



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