So we started demo last night. And I HAYELPED. (name that 80s commercial.) Aside from the fact that there are only 8 gaping holes in our walls with tree limbs poking through and birds flying in and out, I think we did a fantastic job! And by “we” I mean “totally not we.” I’m also [...]

Mini Stout Pies and Blueberry Pecan French Toast
I hadn’t planned on showing you beefy mini stout pies and blueberry pecany french toast in the same day, but sometimes life takes us in unexpected turns. Like when you have a nightmare that you cut all of your hair off after thinking so much about Winona’s hair, but in your dream it doesn’t look [...]

Huevos Rancheros
Remember the scene at the end of Reality Bites when Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder discover their love for each other after a spell of confusing and tense times, and he runs home to be with her after being MIA for a few days, and she’s packing her little brown bag to catch her cab [...]

Red Quinoa Quiche
Hi. You know me. I like to stick weird things in food. Not that quinoa is weird or anything! But red quinoa? Who the what the where the when the how? Actually red quinoa isn’t weird at all either. Now, if the red quinoa was wearing a tutu, a French beret and jumping on a [...]

Bacon Pannekoeken
Quick! 5 bucks goes to the first person who can pronounce it right, WITHOUT GOING CROSS-EYED. Full story and recipe right HAYER. No really, how do you say it? My mouth looks weird.

Candied-Popcorn Gifties and a Mini Frittata Party
OH THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS FRIGHTFUL! Okay, so it’s not that frightful, but I’m in the Christmas spirit, you guys and I just can’t STOP. Are you more than dried up on gift ideas this year? Maybe a tight budget has you on a leash OR you can’t stand insano crowds at the malls and [...]

Holiday Hot Cakes and Waffles: 2.0
HO HO HO!!! Yeah, I can’t really get away with that, can I? Look, I know you’re about to pour a drink, round up the kids and set the table, but I just gotta show ya something totes quick. Now grab your nearest child and show them. Did they freak out? PERFECT. And I’m sorry. [...]

Favorite Breakfast Burrito, That Has Yet To Be Folded Into a Burrito.
Remember when I was telling you about my faaavorite breaaaaakfast EEEVVAAAHH? Well, I have another one. Every time I’m at the store, I can’t resist throwing a package of tortillas in my cart. Ya never know when the urge for taco night might erupt. Ya never know when a breakfast taco or burrito might hit [...]

Spinach, Mushroom and Red Bell Pepper Frittata, and the Pioneer Woman
As everyone in the food world knows, the contagiously hilarious food blogger Ree Drummond, aka the Pioneer Woman had her premier cooking show Saturday morning on the Food Network. And as expected, kajillions of groups of people in the food world gathered to watch her family come to life before our eyes, letting us into [...]

Farm Fresh Eggs
A few days ago I visited a friend who has a newborn baby. As I hopped out of my car, I was walking up to her newly finished, grand back deck to discovered her, comfortably lounging in a hammock, under a pergola, with her baby. Um, am I walking across a page in Southern Living [...]
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7 years ago as I was reaching for the toy in the bottom of a cereal box I'd opened for dinner, I had an epiphany, "Yeah, I need to learn how to cook."
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