Food
Recipes That Use Pantry and Freezer Staples
What is a pantry or freezer staple really though? It can vary from culture to culture, even in the same country. But for the sake of these bizarre times, pantry
March 16, 2020
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Travel
Beech Mountain Trip
Eight ladies, two cars, and one unexpected snow flurry sounds like the beginning to a bad math problem, but supposing you have a good combination of ladies, it is the
March 11, 2020
How to Make Green Natural Food Coloring
Instead of adding three drops of synthetic food coloring to everything you make or drink now through the end of the night on March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, see if
March 2, 2020
Life
February Roundup
Good thing it’s Leap Day, otherwise I would have forgotten to do a February roundup! This month was a blur, because I spent most of it sick with a sinus
February 29, 2020
The Hunt for a New Kitchen Table
After showing off my kitchen last week when I discussed how our kitchen has held up after four years of daily use and abuse, I mentioned there was one last
February 26, 2020
How Our IKEA Kitchen is Holding Up, Four Years In
Recently, I went through my external hard drive, in the hunt for a particular photo from several years ago, when I came across a series of photos I shot in
February 19, 2020
Travel
iFly Indoor Skydiving in Charlotte, NC
Ever wonder what it is like to have a million hairdryers set to the cool setting blowing on you at once? If yes, then you can experience it at iFly!
February 4, 2020
The Friday Goods and January Roundup
When the last day of the month and Friday coincides, why not put the Friday Goods and my January roundup together? Everyone seems to agree that January has felt like
January 31, 2020
House
2020 House Goals
Every year recently I’ve set a list of house goals (as in… since we’ve had enough money to have goals, woohoo) to help plan out what needs to be done
January 15, 2020
Food
12 Food Skills to Acquire in 2020
There are so many different cooking techniques, styles, and ways to do things in the kitchen that no one person can ever know them all. In fact, some things are
January 8, 2020
Food
17 Healthy Meal and Snack Ideas
It’s January and it’s not unreasonable to want to eat healthier at the start of a new year and a new decade. But eating healthy doesn’t mean restrictive dieting and
January 7, 2020
Life
Looking Back at 2019
It’s almost time to leave the year 2019. I love looking back at these reflective surveys each each and seeing what I was thinking, feeling, and experiencing at the time.
December 31, 2019