Our Christmas Tree is still up and I don’ even feel bad about it. We just returned from several weeks in Colorado and now that we’re back we want to enjoy our own Christmas decorations. Besides, January is not the boss of us! Also? Not feeling bad about this cheesy french onion pasta bake with […]

Having a foolproof holiday sangria recipe in my arsenal has changed my hosting game. Come one, come all!! Gone are the days when, as a newlywed, I thought parties were for complicated recipes and fussy, planned out menus. Now I basically have one rule for food when hosting parties – can I make it ahead of time? […]

Listen, I have craved chili approximately 0 times in my life. And that’s being generous. But the weekend after Thanksgiving I wanted two things, cold weather and chili. I could not do much about the cold weather because it is Southern California. But we did put our tree up after basically rearranging our tiny space […]

By “small turkey recipe” I mean: a turkey breast recipe that is an alternative for people who do not want to make a whole, big turkey for Thanksgiving. But, the later was a bit of a long title. So, now that we are on the same page… Turkey is my least favorite part about Thanksgiving. […]

Our table has been all but battered-up bruised with the questions and thoughts we’ve carried to it over the past several months. I carry my casserole and my big questions and pull up a chair. Some nights our table held our collective sighs. Sometimes it held me raging and hurting. A lot of times it […]

I’ve discovered something amazing. One pan dish meals. As in – throw everything on the pan and throw it into the oven. I know I am behind the curve on this but I can’t be stopped. It is new to me and I am all, “Hi Williams Sonoma, can I please order 23 sheet pans?” […]

This title is a little  misleading. What is more important than noodles? Exactly. Fall is here and I am finding my worn path back to the stove. I love that path. It’s been finding respite because this past summer I was making new trails to the grill, to the grass for picnics, to the countertop […]

Back in February I was sitting at the bar top of our neighborhood restaurant rattling off sections of my day to Jeremy. Tapas arrived in quick succession which made me both happy and somehow more open. I always say that we all have at least one life defining moment that happened at a table over […]

We sat down most mornings since February and I could only muster up a paltry offering of, “Here I am.” I gathered the crumbs of my life lived the day before, the life I lived in college, the life I lived as a toddler and I spilled them out on the page – somehow these […]

The only reason I have even been remotely signaled to write a summer wrap up post is because of all the back to school photos in my Facebook newsfeed. The first child I saw nearly sent me into a head spin. I audibly said to the adorable girl on my webpage, “Oh my gosh – […]