What’s for dinner?
Skillet-Grilled Burgers and Oven-Baked Fries
There are fewer flavors better than a warm, juicy burger on soft bread with fresh tomatoes, onions and lettuce from the garden. Of … [Read More]
What’s for dessert?
Lifehack for Shipping Cookies in the Mail
After I posted my S'mores Cookies on Facebook, an old high school friend of mine commented about how yummy they looked. When I … [Read More]
In the Fresh Domestic Kitchen
Seafood Pizza
Seafood Pizza: shrimp + scallops + crab + bacon + red onion + garlic + white asparagus + jalapeno hollandaise … [Read More]
S’more Hot Chocolate Cupcakes with Marshmallow Filling for DIY Craft Party
Some friends of mine started a hot cocoa blog, Hot Cocoalicious, where they rate the best hot chocolates around Cleveland. To accompany their quest for great hot cocoa, they hosted a little Creating + Cocoa party last weekend, bringing together people to share chocolately drinks and sweets while getting crafty with … [Read More]
In the Fresh Domestic Garden
The Power of a Plant
Interesting to stumble upon this plant (on the clearance rack, no less) while I'm reading a chapter in "The Source Field … [Read More]
Plant Progress: Day 5
The company flowers and African Daisies keep coming up. Joining the green ranks today: Some Simpson’s Curled Lettuce. They don’t … [Read More]
Around Town + Beyond
Sunday Eve Picnic: Mini Wine & Cheese Party
Today became "Use Up All the Gift Cards Weighing Down Your Wallet" Day. Fueled by a scrambled egg/bacon/English muffin breakfast from The Shore Restaurant followed by a couple of West End Tavern Bloody Marys, we headed to Great Northern Mall. First stop: DSW, where I stretched a $25 gift card (and then some) into … [Read More...]
Pizza Night Every Night
When you were little, you were lucky to have pizza night once a week. When you're in college, it's nothing strange to have pizza night every night. This week I struck a fine balance with pizza night every other night, twice so far. And I struck that balance even finer for going out one night and staying in the … [Read More...]
