• Beer macaroni and cheese

    I spent almost the entire weekend cooking. See, I have party-control issues. Especially Super-Bowl-party-control issues. Basically I get overly excited that people are coming over and I want to try out lots of different recipes, and I want everything to adhere to a theme. I usually spend about two full days cooking enough food for […]

  • Potato chip cookies

    OK, OK. I get it. You don’t really care about salads and quinoa and beans. That was evident when I took a bunch of cookies outside for my neighbors. Sara, (of Sassy Suppers), was clearly thrilled. “You’re baking again!” she said, before listing all the boring things I’ve been blogging about lately. So I figured […]

  • Black beans and rice with chicken and apple pico

    Beans and rice: healthy, cheap, easy, filling… and kinda boring, right? But it doesn’t have to be. This recipe from Bon Appetit takes what is probably the most frequently eaten dish in the world and gives it a little extra oomph (without adding too much extra time). The most interesting part of this, for me, […]

  • How to start swimming

    I learned to swim when I was 22 months old, and I grew up with a pool in my backyard. So even though I (foolishly) quit swim team in elementary school, swimming has always been relatively easy and natural for me. When my family was living in Brussels, I would swim laps every day at […]

  • Raspberry muesli with hazelnuts

    When I told y’all I was a picky child, you probably thought I meant that I would only eat, like, chicken fingers, macaroni and cheese, Cheerios and PB&J sandwiches, right? Because that’s what a normal picky child eats. But I was not a normal picky child (just like I’m not a normal picky adult — […]

  • Spinach salad with quinoa and chicken

    So, here’s the thing: I hate salads. Not all salads. Bean salad, pasta salad and fruit salad that doesn’t include cantaloupe or honeydew are fine. But I really don’t like raw leaves. And I despise cucumbers. So that eliminates the vast majority of salads. Unfortunately for me, though, raw leaves are a lot healthier than, […]

  • Photos I meant to post in 2011

    I’m sorry I wasn’t more consistent in my posting last year. I am going to try to be better in 2012. But while I still have some recipes hanging around that I can post when the time is right, there are a few things that I really should have posted ages ago. Here goes. We […]

  • Who Dey

    Happy 2012! I apologize for my sporadic posting during the past month or so. We were gone for most of December, but I do have some things I am going to post from our trips. In the meantime, this is a really big day. Not only are the Bengals are in the playoffs, they actually […]