2013-09-25

I love seeing the Halloween spin on traditional Easter candy. It amuses me to no end, and I think it is very creative.

2013-08-29

My parents asked if they should still come this weekend after the sad events of this week. I said yes, they have to, since I've already made the banana pudding for my father's birthday, and we don't need to eat it all by ourselves! Of course, I then realized that I made it a day earlier than I intended. Hope it isn't too soggy by the time they get here.

2013-08-06

Happy birthday to my husband! Sorry they aren't fancier, but I promise they are yummy.

2013-07-24

Happy birthday to me! A meal at one of my favorite restaurants (Golden Corral), and I even got a piece of cake for dessert, which I don't normally do.

2013-07-17

Another interesting use of product labeling. On the one hand, this sort of blew my mind, but on the other hand, clearly I had to have it! LOL

2013-07-16

That's an interesting new use for that particular brand name.

2013-07-15

Tried the Chicken Bake at Costco today for lunch. YUM! It was fabulous, and it was plenty large enough to split. I took the other half (well, this half, actually) to work the next day. It reheated beautifully and was still just as yummy.

2013-07-05

The $10 Taco from TacoLu in Jacksonfille, FL, made with filet mignon. They very kindly only charge $5 for it. It was quite tasty.

2013-06-30

Tried a new chocolate chip cookie recipe today that uses Bisquick. They were cake-ier than I like my cookies, but Luke really seemed to like them.

2013-06-26

Cheesecake Factory! My parents really like to eat here, and we certainly don't mind tagging along. Dulce de Leche cheesecake (missing it's point! LOL) in the back, and Godiva Cheesecake (which I had not tried before) in front. YUM!!

2013-06-25

Decided to try something new at Panera today. This is one of their new pasta dishes. A little under-salted on the pasta, in my opinion, but overall, not too bad.

2013-06-20

Blizzard for dinner! Yes, seriously. It has just been that kind of week.

2013-06-18

My first ever attempt at cooking a steak. The steak turned out okay, but I managed to burn my fingers; all four fingers on my right hand, in fact. Ouch.

2013-06-07

My husband knows me so well. I had an unexpected day off today. People thought we would be going out to a nice lunch together. Nope! He knew I would rather snarf down McDonalds while sitting in the car if it meant that we could see two movies at the theater today, which is exactly what we did. Ah, true love, doing something crazy because you know it's what your partner wants. :-)

2013-06-01

This is what Tigger thought of this bag of bagels. She attacked them through the plastic (for no reason that we can discern) and completely shredded over half of them.

2013-05-21

I almost never get dessert, but after getting stranded last weekend at Longhorn on Mother's Day while DH and Luke went home to get DH's wallet (I didn't have mine), friends said I should have enjoyed dessert while I waited for them to return. The idea stuck with me, so when we went back this weekend, I did get dessert. Three of them, in fact. No, I didn't eat all three! This is their dessert sampler. I ate the apple cobbler while we were there (it was warm), and took the cheesecake and Chocolate Stampede (one of my favorite chocolate desserts) home to enjoy later.

2013-05-12

Arancini at Olive Garden! We had never heard of arancini until we went to Boston in 2011. We asked the local firemen for a lunch recommendation, and they pointed us to this little hole in the wall place and said we had to try the arancini. It was very different and unique, unlike anything I had ever tasted before. The one we had there was bigger than a baseball and had a meat filling. When these popped up on the specials menu at Olive Garden today, we absolutely had to try them. I think these from Olive Garden (they just called them "Parmesan Rice Balls", I think) are more what the dish started out as: a way to use leftover risotto and turn it into something else. These were tasty, but they can't hold a candle to the arancini we had in Boston.

2013-05-11

Met some friends for lunch at THE best Mexican restaurant in Atlanta. It's not close by, and if you don't get there when they open, you will literally wait for hours. But so yummy!

2013-04-23

Words cannot explain how much I love this stainless steel and silicone spoonula. I got it from Sur la Table. It wasn't cheap, but I had a coupon, and it has turned out to be worth every penny, to the point that I'm considering going back and getting a second one and paying full price!

2013-04-14

Making a cake for the cake decorating competition at Cub Scouts. Needed to cut the dome off so it would sit level. Pretty sure my father considers this the best part of the cake! (Hard to argue with him.)