If you live near Phoenix or are traveling there in the next week, you have to go see the luminaries at the Desert Botanical Garden. We lived in Arizona for 13 years, but had never gone to see the luminaries, so when my mom and I went to Scottsdale for our girls’ shopping trip, my […]
We had originally planned to go to the Petrified Forest on our second full day in northern Arizona, but we didn’t get to see everything on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon the first day, so we decided to check out Meteor Crater and then drive up a different road, through the Navajo reservation, […]
One of the main things we wanted to do when we drove from DC to California was stop and visit the Grand Canyon. Toby had never seen it, and I was in fourth grade the last time I saw it. But our moving truck arrived earlier than planned, so while we did get to drive […]
Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all! I’m still in sunny (but cold) Afghanistan, but since it’s Arizona’s 102nd birthday, I wanted to share a little AZ-inspired snack I made the other day using ingredients from an MRE. In case you’re not familiar, MRE stands for Meal Ready to Eat, and they come in plastic bags. Each MRE […]
My favorite restaurant growing up was Marilyn’s First Mexican Restaurant, right across the street from the Paradise Valley Mall in Phoenix. I always requested the hot salsa to accompany our regular chips and salsa, and if I wasn’t too full after my bean burrito (without onions) or cheese enchiladas (also without onions), I would order […]
You know what today is, right? Arizona’s 99th birthday! What better way to celebrate that — and that other holiday — than red velvet cupcakes? You need cake flour for this recipe, and I thought I had a whole box. Then I picked up the box to measure it and realized I only had about […]