Two recipes in a row from me! How unusual! This really isn’t a new recipe though. It’s a combination of a few recipes. A couple of years ago I shared my recipe for the uppermidwestern favorite, Tater Tot Hotdish (hotdish = casserole, ’round here..). Recently, I stumbled upon the idea of making it in the [...]
Just wanted to share a quick recipe from a weekend dinner that started with me saying to my husband, “you don’t have to eat them both, they’re pretty big,” and ended with both of us licking our plates. The background on this is: Several weeks ago, I made a baked brie wheel wrapped in pastry [...]
Chocolate in the mail when you’re having a bad day/week/month. More specifically, this. (Photos from William-Sonoma.com, because I clearly ate most of ours before bothering to think about photos…) I love William-Sonoma Peppermint Bark. Love love love. Last week, when I was having A Particularly Bad Day, I happened to receive a box in the [...]
November hasn’t been the best month. All various school-related things aside, there was the car accident I mentioned last week. We’re thankful that our family is OK, but were devastated at the possibility that they might not have been. Since the standing plan was to have Thanksgiving dinner at their home, we kept it, the [...]
Continue reading about accident + thanksgiving + what a great time to catch a cold!
Today I’m guest posting at She Likes Ruffles, He Likes Truffles; my post is called That’s Awfully Particular. It relates to this old post about Mr. N’s food issues.
I find tons of great-sounding recipes on Pinterest. Some of them are not things my hubs would like, but I pin them anyway as wishful thinking. There are a lot of others I can adapt to be ‘husband friendly,’ or use as-is. One recent one I found was this Braided Calzone recipe. I have made [...]
I’m just popping in here to tell you to go here, to Married up with Wine. I really like Mandy; I think we could be IRL friends (and I don’t have a ton of those, so that’s saying something!). So of course when she asked for guest posters, I had to contribute. Mandy and her [...]
Here’s a report from the most recent milestone! Most of Mr. N’s immediate family came to watch him graduate, including his grandmothers on both sides, as well as his great grandmother. I thought that was really nice. Here are some pictures either I, or my mom-in-law took. This is the stage before the commencement began. [...]
The title is one I both believe and don’t believe. Crash diets aren’t healthy. They can’t be maintained. But they ALWAYS work if you have the willpower. Mr. N and I did a cheapo version of the Ideal Protein diet. Have you heard of it? You basically survive on powdered cardboard (I mean uh, ‘protein’ [...]
Years ago, my advisor gave me some important advice about having a grad school defense. In a nutshell, the advice was: “feed your committee.” Especially if you’re having a defense in the mid-to-late morning, or mid-to-late afternoon. Odds are, they’ll be hungry. A hungry committee may equal a crabby committee. Of course, none of this [...]
Late-20s yuppie, professional techie, terminal student. I probably live farther north than you do. (