A Boy And Girl

I am so happy to be using our grill and eating outside again! Tonight I made chicken and zucchini with a feta/yogurt dipping sauce, slightly adapted from this recipe, along with some tabbouleh. It was actually cooler outside than it was in our house, and it felt great to sit outside. Finn would really like [...]

Josh and I spent Easter visiting my sisters and brother and their families in Kentucky, and we had such an amazing trip. We are aunt and uncle to four little boys, and I cherish every minute we get to spend with them. It was only a 3 day trip, but we managed to fit in [...]

We (well, mostly I) had a busy day yesterday throwing a baby shower for Josh’s brother and girlfriend and our soon-to-be niece, so we’re taking it pretty easy today. I still managed to crank out a blueberry crumb pie (and use my sweet squirrel cookie cutter from Ikea) and fill up a planter with leftover [...]

Perhaps I was trying to compensate for one-too-many small town diner breakfasts, or the image of a fine dining chef munching on lowly green beans was just too curious to ignore, but either way, I picked up some (slightly spent) green beans and set to work on this recipe. And now I want more. Everything [...]

This morning, I went outside and found a gift from our neighbor, Dave, on Josh’s car. He must know we’re not early risers, so when he brings us spare veggies like this, he usually just leaves them without a word. It’s not the first time he’s done this so I decided to take him something [...]

I’m doing my best to keep our house cool by breaking in our new ice-cream machine (thanks April Martin!). For a seasoned ice-cream scooper, it’s pretty incredible I’ve lived this long without owning my own machine. According to the internet and my sister-in-law, the ice-cream-making bible is David Lebowitz’s The Perfect Scoop. I put it [...]

After some time in the city, we headed north to Cairns. We noticed right off the bat that people were much friendlier, which is probably true in any part of the world, when you compare country people and city people. To me, lots of things about this part of Australia were different, yet the same. [...]

We had a long honeymoon and took over 2000 photos, so I’m finding it hard to know where to start! At one point, I bought a small, square journal and starting writing every few days and though Josh teased me about it, now I’m so happy I did! Our honeymoon began in Sydney, after a [...]

We’re still on our honeymoon but we have a little down time today till we hop on a plane to our final destination: FIJI! I’ll have lots to say about our honeymoon when we get back, but first I have to gush about our wedding a little. The day went by just as fast as [...]

I make Josh over-easy eggs quite often, so when I found this heart-shaped egg mold, I had to have it. I have to say, it was a little more difficult to use than I thought it would be, because I couldn’t remove the mold from the partially set egg (so I could flip it) without [...]