• Sweet potato banana bake with coconut and pecans

    Have you noticed how trendy sweet potatoes are these days? I’ve always loved sweet potatoes — particularly when mashed and topped with gooey marshmallows — but they used to be a fall-only kind of vegetable, and now they’re year-round, while white potatoes have taken the back seat. It’s probably the fact that they have more fiber, […]

  • Camouflage cookies

    I wanted to make some Marine Corps birthday baked goods for Toby’s Marines last week, but I ran out of time — so I thought I’d make some camouflage cookies today, for Veterans Day, and have Toby take them to the Marines tomorrow. I love baking (and eating) sugar cookies, but I haven’t made them […]

  • Happy birthday, Marines!

    Two hundred and thirty-eight years ago today, the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution to establish the Continental Marines. According to Marine Corps lore, they conducted their first enlistment drive in a bar in Philadelphia, Tun Tavern. Nowadays, the Marines celebrate their birthday with ceremonies, cake (and usually beer) all over the world — and, […]

  • SJP + ballet = amazing

    Hey y’all! We’re at Disneyland today, recovering from the Marine Corps ball. I’ll have more photos from the ball tomorrow, but I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of the new, awesome web series about the New York City Ballet, produced by Sarah Jessica Parker. It’s called city.ballet. and I can’t stop watching it! […]

  • How to dress for game day, SEC style

    Football was a big deal at my first high school — everyone went to the games, and the players were like celebrities. But even though I wore dresses and heels to school occasionally, Clueless-style, I don’t think I ever wore something like that to a football game. Football-watching attire is jeans and a sweatshirt, right? […]

  • Centre homecoming

    As I mentioned, we went to Kentucky this past weekend for Toby’s homecoming. It was actually the first time I’ve seen his alma mater — we’ve been wanting to go, but hadn’t been able to until this year, when one of his good friends was being inducted into Centre’s athletic hall of fame. I was […]

  • Meaty lasagna

    I don’t make lasagna very often — in fact, I’ve only made it a few times, ever, and the last time was probably before I even met Toby. But when Toby asked me to make dinner for one of his Marines and his wife (because the wife is pregnant and on bed rest), I thought […]

  • Not-so-Chunky Monkey

    OK, I know “Chunky Monkey” did not get its name from its power to pack on the pounds. But I also know that the delicious combination of banana ice cream, fudge chunks and walnuts is very hard to resist — and downing a pint is not exactly a ticket to Skinnyville. But, it is one […]

  • Horse country

    Happy Monday, y’all! We got lucky the other day when we were driving from Northern Kentucky down to Danville for Toby’s homecoming — it was an absolutely perfect day. So we decided to stop near Keeneland and take some photos with the horses. Obviously I was dressed pretty casually — we had brunch at Toby’s […]

  • Stand-up paddleboarding

    If you’ve been near just about any body of water in the United States in the past year or two, you’ve probably seen people standing on boards, paddling around. I’m not sure when it became a thing, but I saw tons of people doing it in Hawaii last year and it’s hugely popular in the […]