That was fast. Just a week after I took up the pursuit of an easy homemade alternative to store-bought pasta sauce, I think I’ve found my go-to recipe. Over at Budget Bytes, Beth posted a recipe for a slow cooker marinara sauce in November (gotta give kudos to Pinterest for helping me find it). She noted [...]
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Slow cooker marinara sauce: the new household standard
Posted in Eats, tagged Budget Bytes, calzones, cooking, cooking for two, freezer sauce, homemade, marinara sauce, meat sauce, pasta, pasta sauce, Pinterest, processed foods, Real Food Movement, recipes, slow cooker, tomatoes on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A simple New Year’s Resolution: Eat more real food
Posted in Eats, Family, Fitness, tagged AL, cooking, diet, exercise, Huntsville, maintaining weight, New Year's resolution, nutrition, peanut butter, processed foods, Real Food Movement, salad spinner, weight loss, workouts on January 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
How weird to be in the middle of a food trend and not realize it. I’ve been trying to reduce the amount of processed food in my family’s diet for the past few years. I was unemployed for a few months when we first moved to Huntsville, so I started cooking a lot to try [...]
2012′s first culinary pursuit: the perfect Bloody Mary
Posted in Eats, Photographs, Travel, tagged asparagus, Bloody Mary, brunch, cocktails, corned beef, corned beef hash, Las Vegas, poached eggs, rooster sauce, sriracha sauce, Tabasco sauce, The Oatmeal, the Strip, Todd English, Todd English P.U.B., Todd's Sssinful Bloody Mary, travel, vacation on December 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Not that I’ve spent my life in search of the perfect Bloody Mary, but I found it at the Todd English P.U.B. in Vegas. A mix of tomato juice, horseradish root, sriracha sauce and olive juice, Todd’s Sssinful Bloody Mary had the perfect amount of kick to it. Meaning that it’ll be too spicy for some [...]
Nostalgic foods aren’t always satisfying
Posted in Christmas, Eats, Family, tagged boot camp, cake pops, Christmas, eggnog, grandparents, holiday memories, holidays, Huntsville Adventure Boot Camp, Madison Adventure Boot Camp, memories, nostalgia, nostalgic foods, red velvet cake pops, Santa mugs on December 12, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I have purchased no eggnog this year. Normally, I would be on my second carton by now. When I first spotted cartons of eggnog in the dairy aisle a few weeks ago, however, it just didn’t seem worth the calories. Part of this attitude, admittedly, results from attending boot camp at 5:30 a.m. three days [...]
Why make cake batter-flavored goodies when you can just make cake batter?
Posted in Cats, Eats, Photographs, tagged beaters, cake batter, cake batter fudge, candy making, funfetti cake batter fudge, sprinkles on October 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Everybody knows that the best part of the cake-making process is licking the beaters. And the spatula. And any batter than may have dropped down the side of the mixing bowl. The batter. The best part of the cake-making process is the batter. I’ve been seeing a lot of cake batter-flavored recipes lately. Cake batter [...]
A day of wine, friends and fun, just north of Huntsville
Posted in Eats, Photographs, Travel, tagged Arrington Vineyards, blueberry wine, Gloomy Bear, wine, wine tasting, winery on September 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What’s within two hours of Huntsville and is so much fun that I forgot to take any pictures except for this one shot, complete with a thumb in the viewfinder? Arrington Vineyards, just south of Nashville. The husband and I met a group of friends there on a recent Friday, and great fun ensued. After [...]
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