Pumpkin lures me out of my baking hiatus

Well, I successfully went one month without baking. It was a long month, lol. I feel like I’ve gotten ahold of my compulsion to bake bake bake and eat eat eat. I’m trying to cut back to just doing it for special ocassions and focus on baking for others. This week [...]

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Celebrate Chili Season!

Tyler was nice enough to whip up this batch of white chicken chili while I made the beef and bean chili tonight. Honestly I’m not sure where I got the original recipe and it’s driving me nuts. If you know please jog my memory! I just have a copy of it [...]

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Officially Chili Season!

Today is the first day of fall, which means I can now make chili without getting yelled at by my dad! (although I heard a rumor that he made a batch last weekend, tsk tsk!) We made a couple of chili’s tonight and will freeze quite a bit of it for easy grab [...]

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Who doesn’t love a man in the kitchen?

So I confess Tyler actually made this meal 2 weeks ago but I’ve been dragging my feet about posting it. I’m not really busy…just trying to keep my mind off of food as much as I can, lol. I’m still eating and cooking though, just nothing terribly exciting. We are making 2 [...]

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I’m still here!

Sorry for the post-less week, I haven’t really been cooking much. Mostly because I was eating out or making some of my favorite guilty pleasures before I started back on Weight Watchers this week Real smart, huh? We had sushi, cheese dip, potstickers, Chipotle, chick-fil-a….ahh such food debauchery. Now [...]

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Corny corn casserole

Corn is an iffy vegetable for me. I don’t like eating it on the cob because it gets stuck in my teeth, and the canned/frozen stuff isn’t that tasty. I bookmarked several recipes from the latest issue of Cooking Light and am slowly knocking them off my “to try” list. This recipe was first published [...]

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A cold day in September

Well I was trying to hold off on making soup until the first day of fall but it is 59 degrees outside right now and the sun hasn’t even gone down yet! I am so pumped I am slowly letting fall creep into our apartment, I put out my fall pillows [...]

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Another popular recipe

I know everyone and their mom has made this orzo recipe by now (at least in my small food blogging circle) but I always come in late in the game Tyler offered to make dinner tonight but we ended up cooking together so we could eat sooner. We make a [...]

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Feast your eyes!

Made the peach-raspberry cobbler again last weekend (had to find some way to use up the 12 peaches crammed in that little bag at the store!) Since I didn’t have a picture last time I figured I’d share it now. Here’s the original entry with the recipe. I used frozen raspberries this [...]

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Too easy, too yummy

I needed a dessert that I could whip up fast and I didn’t want to go through the whole “from scratch trash my kitchen with flour and sugar” mess so I went the easy route. All you need are some peanut butter cups and a box of brownie mix with its required ingredients. [...]

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