I promise the Hunger Games post titles will stop after this one, but I couldn’t help myself (again). There isn’t even a pita in this post, technically, but this picture reminded me of one, and then I thought of my sister-in-law, Susan, who told me that “Peeta” always reminded her of “pita” as she was […]
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Won’t You Be Mine?
Happy Valentine’s Day! A big thank you to the Benders, who inspired today’s #FebPhotoADay – “heart” – with their Valentine’s Day package. The chocolate-covered strawberries were beautiful! Not to mention delicious. We had a great holiday here in Chicago. Though we technically celebrated at Wildfire last Friday, I couldn’t help but cook something special up […]
Keeping Things Pinterest-ing
Happy February! I’m thrilled to share that I will be participating in #FebPhotoADay, a challenge I came across on – did you guess it? – Pinterest the other day, and have been excited for ever since. Here is what I’ll be documenting over the next 29 days. Today was reserved for my view. Though it’s […]
Memorable Meals: Risotto-A-Go-Go
Sometimes, the best laid plans for a new recipe don’t run as smoothly as you wish they would. This was not one of those times. I’ve never met a risotto I didn’t like. I love eating it in restaurants. We even served it at our wedding. But I had never tried making it myself at […]
Eating My Chops
Hello there and welcome to the middle of the week! I currently have an Empire State of Mind as I am leaving for New York City in 24 hours…to fulfill my role as The New Dork! “Social networks what dreams are made of, there’s nothin’ you can’t do!” That said, I am both excited and […]
Homemade Pizza! Pizza!
Allo! Happy weekend! **Thanks for your sweet comments on my last post. You all know how to get a girl excited about wedding details 🙂 New news: we have scheduled an engagement shoot for mid-February! It came with our photography package and I’m really excited to meet with the photographer and get Bobby to let […]
Still smiling.
I’m definitely still smiling as I continue to read the feedback from my last post So I’ll say it one more time: THANK YOU! My, we’ve got some catching up to do, don’t we? Oh wait, hang on, I have to watch Michael Phelps kick Olympic ass swim the 200m butterfly… GOOOOOOOOOOOLD!!! World Record!!!! But […]
Flattery will get you far with me!
I just want to start this post with a BIG THANK YOU to Foodie over at Fab and Delicious Food for posting such an incredibly nice Wednesday Website about me. It was a complete surprise and without a doubt made my day – heck, it even made my week So thank you, Foodie – you […]