Posts Tagged ‘(Mis)Adventures in the Kitchen’
It always amuses me what my brain comes up with to entertain myself when I get snowed in. The snow started Saturday night and then continued all day on Sunday, leaving me a little stir crazy and having to cancel my Oscar party plans in Denver. Since my plans had been cancelled, I decided to [...]
If 2012 could be described by one vegetable, it would have to be the avocado. I don’t know why but I have been eating avocados like they were about to go extinct. Grilled, mashed, cut in half and scooped out with a spoon, I love it all. But my absolute favorite find? Avocado as dessert. [...]
This weekend felt like it went by in the blink of an eye, didn’t it? And as usual, I didn’t catch up on the sleep I needed so we begin another week beyond tired but happy and content. I have been alternating lazy, slow weekends with crazy busy weekends and this weekend happened to be [...]
Every once in a while I will have a Saturday night (or a Friday, or a Wednesday) where the smallest thing will set me off for no reason. I’m talking full on waterworks, sometimes even an ugly cry. Saturday was one of those days. I had big plans to BBQ up some roasted red peppers [...]
Today I’m participating in Nora’s Wine and Love, where we review our week and say what we loved and what caused us to reach for our wine glasses. If you’d like to join us, you can link up through Nora’s blog. Things that caused me to reach for my wine glass… Trying to get a hair [...]
One of my favorite things about this transition into fall, besides the boots, the scarfs, the cute sweaters and the expansion into my fall wardrobe, is the food. I grew up with an Italian mother who was raised in the midwest (Detroit to be exact) which lead to the blending of delicious homemade pasta sauces [...]
There’s this common knowledge that you have to be pretty exact with your measurements when it comes to baking. I’ve often heard people say they don’t like baking because you have to follow the recipe exactly or else it doesn’t come out right. It’s true, if you put too much of one ingredient in, or [...]
My favorite thing about fall is the baked goods, especially when I get to make them. Baking to me has always been tops on my list of things I like to do in my kitchen so it’s no surprise that I spent the majority of yesterday with my mother’s recipe and one of Maris’ spread [...]
Did you know that every seven years your taste buds change? And that you can develop new allergies? Apparently your body goes through a cycle. I believe it–I used to hate cooked fish, couldn’t even smell it without getting nauseous–up until this year when I started eating it. Now I love it! I also used [...]
For the past week my parents have been in town which means that I have cheated a whole ton on this being Vegan thing. In fact, I basically put it aside and let myself eat what I wanted–lamb, grilled cheese, clams, ice cream. I’m hopping on the bandwagon once again with a freezer full of [...]
