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 [...]

…elephant, elbow, elf, eagle, mail…  (Okay, not mail, but that’s what all my three year olds say when I hold up a flashcard with a picture of an envelope.)  And most importantly, E is for egg.  Which is what’s for breakfast and/or dinner at least three days a week.

Easy Sticky Buns
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve got somethin’ of a crush on Ina Garten.  I saw her make these “easy sticky buns,” the easy part being the use of puff pastry rather than yeasted dough.  (My mom actually used to make a big pull apart sticky bun thing in a bundt pan using frozen [...]

Szechwan Carrot Soup
I eat a LOT of soup.  They’re so simple to make, so full of flavor, and they last a good part of the week for me to pack up for work.  Plus they’re cheap to make.  This one in particular is a great way to use up that two pound bag of carrots [...]

Overcome by a sudden tug of domesticity, I decided stay in tonight to clean my room, the bathroom, AND cook! (And by tug of domesticity I mean I didn’t have any money left for the bar after diapers and new socks, since those damn toddlers socks are teeny and inevitably end up lost in the [...]