Growing up in Oregon, I always knew spring was coming around when the thermometer outside passed 50 degrees and a little ray of sunshine managed to shove its way through the densely packed clouds and left a small spot of warmth on the ground...
I have no idea as to why, but I never had Irish soda bread until last year when I picked up a loaf from a local bakery to take to my friend’s house on my way to her St. Patrick’s day dinner....
My love affair with tomato soup has been a long and heartfelt one. Pure tomato soup wasn’t a dish that was ever served in my childhood home, so I can only assume that it doesn’t have a firm footing in Greek cooking. We had...
Coffee and chocolate have always gone hand in hand for me. My childhood home had a tiled floor, and since most of the year in Oregon is rather chilly and my dad’s always been a bit tight with the purse strings, the temperature...
If you couldn’t gather from the paw print-embedded cookies, this post is about pets. Some people aren’t animal people, and I totally get that. So if animals aren’t your thing, hold tight until the next post which I promise will be...
I had a hard time adjusting to college the first couple months. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy my newfound independence or my ability to eat cereal for dinner and stay up until two in the morning marathoningFriends, it was that southern California was...
Things have been pretty hectic around these parts the past couple weeks. I’ve been prepping for our upcoming honeymoon to Thailand, which has included getting a wide assortment of vaccines and buying straight-up deet, (kind of terrified of getting malaria), along with printing out...
I’ve been wanting to make a sheet cake again for a while now, they’re just so quick to whip up and I love that you can literally throw toppings on top of it and yet it still looks relatively put-together. Because I have...
Early spring is rearing its head in my balmy side of the woods, (the seasons just kind of go from fall to spring in LA), and I’ve done some rearranging around the blog, with a bright and bushy new design. I wanted a little...
One of my favorite things to make is a simple roast chicken, especially during the winter months. The skin of the chicken crisps up beautifully and the flavors of the poultry seep into the accompanying vegetables in the pan. Another wonderful aspect of it...
Up until a few days ago, the best hot chocolate I’d ever had was in Spain. My junior year of college I studied abroad in Europe and did some traveling while I was there, and since I’m mildly obsessed with planning, I spent much...
This final Thailand post has taken me a while to put together, I’d wanted to put it up a month ago but with all the photos to go through and the house hunting process in full swing, this post kept falling by the wayside....
