Tackling domestic life...one day at a time!
I used to buy bran muffins at the store on almost a weekly basis. Then I thought to myself: Self, you should really make your own bran muffins. You’ll save money, and how hard can it really be to find a healthy bran muffin recipe? Fortunately, my trusty mother-in-law had one on hand. Healthy Bran Muffin Recipe [...]
I love cookies…especially when I don’t have to spend hours baking them. These snickerdoodle cookies (also known as cinnamon cookies), are just like regular sugar cookies coated with cinnamon. They’re quick, super-easy, and use ingredients that you’re bound to have in your cabinets. This is my go-to recipe when I need a dessert for a [...]
I feel like I’ve been saying for months: “One of these days, I’ll really commit to getting in shape.” With my wedding looming just two months away now, one of these days finally needs to be…today. The person who brought this to my attention was, of course, my mother. I was propped up on her [...]
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably accumulated recipes from all sorts of events, restaurants, family members, websites, cookbooks, etc. I used to come straight home from a potluck and shove handfuls of loose print-outs and post-it note recipes in cabinets and drawers. Whenever I needed a particular chicken recipe or crockpot dish, I’d rifle through them [...]
I’ve been really busy lately with all this wedding stuff. So busy, in fact, I haven’t blogged for a week! Yikes. One thing I’m never too busy for, however, is cookies (how do you like THAT segway?). I adore no bake cookies. Around my house, one of our favorite weekday my-plate-is-full-I-so-don’t-have-time-to-cook desserts is what we’ve [...]
A couple weeks ago, a group of friends and I got together with a mission: to find the perfect red velvet cupcake recipe. Katie (who blogs over at La Jolla Mom) arranged it after having the genius idea of having a monthly Cupcakes and Wine event. Yes, cupcakes AND wine…combining the best part of Valentine’s [...]
I was at the grocery store the other day when I stumbled upon this miraculous invention: A microwave potato. Or as the package calls it, an “Easy-open Micro Baker Potato” providing “oven-baked potato taste from the microwave in just minutes.” Oh. My. God. I exclaimed over this incredible invention and pondered aloud, “What have they [...]
It was raining the other day in San Diego (a more frequent than usual occurrence lately) so Nate’s family and I took the opportunity to watch some TV and make some popcorn – from scratch! My soon-to-be mother-in-law whipped out this contraption and showed me the ropes. It seems that each popcorn popper works a [...]
