I like to use the fall season as an excuse to eat an exorbitant amount of nuts. I also count nut spreads as nuts, which means that a steady stream of nutella is always flowing through my veins from September to November. Because I...
One of the best parts of having my roots in the Pacific Northwest is the large amount of salmon I get to eat whenever I come home. My parents always keep a few frozen slabs of smoked salmon tucked away in the freezer for...
Remember in my last post where I talked about raspberry picking and got 3 pints of raspberries but only used two pints to make that pie? Well, this is what I did with the last pint. I couldn’t make much jam with only one...
Between work, Jeremy, and the five million side projects I have going on at any given point in time, sometimes weeks end up going by before I make the time to hang out with my girlfriends. My friend Alana and I were talking about...
I don’t know why the end of summer is always the hottest, but August has been killer here in Southern California. As a result, I’ve been eating more and more meals outside in the evening under the shade of the oak tree in my...
Something about the summertime always leaves me craving pulled pork sandwiches. I think it’s because when I was small my Grandpa would have us over for pulled pork sometimes and I always remember those days being nice and warm and sunny. He always got...
It’s nearly peach season here in Southern California, and while I’m planning on going peach-picking next month, I couldn’t wait that long to try my hand at making another kind of jam, or preserves, to be precise. I always think of jam as smoother...
Jeremy had been out of town for over two weeks when he returned last Sunday, and by then I had run out of household chores to keep me occupied. Having cleaned every knob, vacuumed every corner, and weeded every garden plot, I was tired,...
Summer is truly here! And by that I mean I was able to procure the first piece of produce straight from my garden, a delightful little yellow bush scallop summer squash. I’d never had one before, and was surprised by how soft and juicy...
Jeremy has been out of town the past week so I have been keeping myself busy by cooking, doing house/yard work, and putzing about my sofa. So far I have built a pallet garden, turned the weird mossy part of my backyard into a...
A few weeks ago while my brother was in town we drove over to Cherry Valley to attend the Lavender Festival at the Highland Springs Resort. None of us had eaten anything that morning because we were so excited about trying all the...
Now that the inside of our new place is pretty much how we want it, I’ve been getting to work on sprucing up the exterior. It’s rare to be able to rent a unit in Los Angeles with a yard our size and for...
