In My Kitchen

It’s official, I’m crazy.

I mentioned several weeks ago that I am taking a trip to Thailand and Cambodia this fall.  I’ll be committing much more blog time to that trip soon, but today I wanted to tell you how I’m preparing my household for my two week absence:
I’m cooking like my life depends on it.
Here’s the thing:  my [...]

In My Kitchen

In My Kitchen

You’ve probably figured out by now that I love fall. Love it, love it, love it. One of my favorite things about this time of year is the food (surprising, I know). So today I’ve got a few of my favorite fall recipes for you.
Apple Muffins:

I just made these last week for [...]

Happy Birthday to Me!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Yesterday was my 34th birthday. I spent the day doing somewhere around 632 loads of laundry. But last night, four of my faves came over for dinner. Here’s 2 of them:

And here’s the other 2:

My sister was having a fit about me making my own birthday dinner, but I kept it simple [...]

It Looked So Easy on the Internet

It Looked So Easy on the Internet

Have you been on The Pioneer Woman’s site lately? She has all kinds of links to these adorable cake pops:

How cute is that? I just had to try them. When Bryn’s and Lydia’s (is that grammatically correct?) birthday rolled around last week it seemed like the perfect opportunity to [...]

International Night: The Congo

One of my goals in the next few months is to get back on track with our Family International Night.  Our family has been at a busy stage of life where I ‘m just happy to get something on the table at all, and an international meal every week was feeling overwhelming.  So we took [...]