So I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been pretty much lollygagging my way through the month of November.  The weather’s been beautiful (hello, double digits!), and there isn’t (as much) new house crap to get done, and well, potty training takes pretty much takes all of the energy I can muster up these [...]

I’m a really awesome girlfriend.  Due to my dear Italian boyfriend’s culinary preferences, the past year I’ve been choking down a lot of sausages (hehe) and peppers.  Not to mention making homemade cavatelli.  And peanut butter cookies, which I don’t really even like.  Let’s not even talk about all that ball handling.  (And really, why [...]

Sometimes, you start out with the best intentions.  The weather’s finally back down into the double digits, and then you happen upon such recipes like sweet potato gnocchi with fried sage and chestnuts.  I mean come on, seriously?  How can you not want that in your mouth right now?  If my overuse of italics hasn’t clued [...]

Life lessons learned from Halloween:
My refined adult palatte has realized that Sixlets are slightly fruit flavored, and are not just sad, wannabe M&Ms.  Reeses and Butterfingers are much better as an adult (I didn’t like peanut butter as a kid, I know, weird), nobody on my street is cool enough to give out Almond Joy or [...]