Amended.
Bonjour!  What are you guys up to this lovely Saturday?
I want to highlight a blog posting on eating alone that I enjoyed and think you’ll enjoy, too. Special K wrote the following: “It’s been said that cooking a meal for one is one of the most difficult challenges a chef encounters. They cite measuring [...]

Carrots + Cake = Oats + Peanut Butter
Riddle #1:  How did carrots + cake yield oats + peanut butter?  Well duh!  The genius behind Carrots and Cake came up with a recipe for Peanut Buttery Bars with oats and I just had to try them!  I haven’t had many sweets around the house aside from [...]

I have been having too much fun making my own weird food mixes! When I have the time to cook an elaborate meal, I love to.  Most of the time, however, I am eating between activities and need something quick!  Here are my three recent fave “fast” food concoctions:
Pita Pizza Goop

Don’t mind my pasty legs [...]

While I was supposed to be productive on my final research paper on Pride and Prejudice yesterday, I was much more productive in the kitchen!  Good for the belly, bad for the paper. But I had to put some of my Whole Foods buys to good use!
Let me begin with a spontaneous couplet to show [...]

Happy Saturday!
Yesterday was an amazing day.  Why?  I think because I had actually slept an adequate amount. If that’s how I’d usually feel with more sleep, I am definitely making sleep more of a priority!  Here are the main things that made my day a great one:
Beach Babe Workout
I went to the beach to workout [...]

Hey guys!  It’s been a long day with little sleep last night (see here), and I felt like making something hearty and something sweet for dinner.  I decided on a Costa Rica meets the South compromise — gallo pinto and sweet corn bread.
Now before I divulge one of the main ingredients of gallo pinto (since [...]

Good evening!  What a day, what a day! I have so much to share!  Today was my niece’s first birthday party so it was a fabulous day celebrating the little girl who has brought so much joy into our lives. Check out some of the eats:

These cupcakes were made by my sister in law’s sister [...]

What do you do when you’re out of Holey Donuts (*gasp!* I know, right?!), you have no legit “sweets” hanging around (I guess this is a good thing!), you have made the decision not to buy food until absolutely necessary (the economy has me more frugal than I’ve ever been) and you’re just itching (and [...]

Dear Beans:
I love you for three very specific reasons — you’re cheap, you’re healthy and you’re delicious!  You’re so near and dear to my heart and I love parading you around in pictures so much so that I’d actually like to name you like a pet (is that weird? How about “Ben the Bean”?). My [...]

So it’s been one of those days where things have just been a bit off-kilter and I’ve had trouble lifting my spirits.  Then, in an effort to have my boyfriend try some of the new unsweetened almond milk I bought, I finally had to laugh at myself.  Standing in the kitchen, I too excitedly took [...]