Hey dudes!
Happy fourth of July! My friend Nia (you know her as Nadia — our regular Tuesday guest-blogger) and I painted the town red last night! We bar-hopped, club-danced, and arm-wrestled our way from frat house to frat house.
Heh…I totally just made that up! In actuality, Nadia and I were kitchen goddesses last night; I [...]

Like blueberries?  Check!
Coffee cake?  Check!
Mix ‘em together? Check!
I received a sample of NuNatural’s NuStevia Sweetener Baking Blend and, while NuNaturals was kind enough to send me sample recipes, I thought the best way to try the product would be to try it as I normally would — as a sugar substitute in any delicious recipe [...]

TGIF to all the lovely people behind their computer screens!
Do you guys ever feel like your life needs a little spring cleaning? I have!  I recently quit a job that was making me terribly unhappy. It was a scary decision to make given the instability of the economy and the Mount Everest of our unemployment [...]

**Edited to add: HAHAHAH I so did not realize that my title could be so misconstrued just like that lady’s license plate (read here)! yikes, sorry…but not really…muahhaha!**
TGIF guys!  First some random bites of info.:

I won a cool little pack of exercise cards from Miss Kari at Running Through Life!  Thanks, pal!  I must say [...]

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 [...]

My friend sent me a recipe for vegan cookies and I decided to run with it and experiment with some things.  Was that a good idea? I think experimentation as a general concept is great – it’s super to try new things and yadda yadda yadda.  But “be prepared” is the lesson here because sometimes [...]

Dear Peanut Butter Boy,
I hope it’s okay, but I totally have a platonic, blogger-based love for you! I guess what I am trying to say is thank you for coming up with the Puffins-based pie crust recipe!  It tasted like a Butter Finger, which, coincidentally, happened to be my favorite childhood candy bar (which is [...]

But I am in love with this corn bread I made yesterday as an experiment.  Usually you don’t experiment with recipes when you have guests coming over for dinner, but I had faith that it would at least be edible and simply hoped it wouldn’t taste like a stale brick.
Modified greatly from this recipe, this [...]

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 [...]

For all you Americanos out there, that means “more beans, please” said in kids’ voices just like the “more Ovaltine, please!” commercial.  I’m hoping my future (FUTURE, as in waaaaaaaaaay future!) kids will shout that with glee as I give them scoops and scoops of the nutritious stuff.
Which brings me to my dinner tonight: black [...]