Gerrit likes to remind me all the time how lucky he is because a) I love to watch football (ok…mostly Auburn football, but I joined a pick’em with Gerrit’s family this year–of which I, ahem, won last week–and now I care about all these games I didn’t before…”no, no! we have to stay up and…
Month: September 2011
First of all, I’m a horrible breakfast eater. It’s just too much first thing in the morning. I remember there was a time when I was little (in like kindergarten) when the only thing I wanted to eat were these peanut butter/chocolate breakfast bars that my mom had. In high school the only thing I…
So menu planning. Let’s talk about it. As I kind of implied earlier with my whole not giving in to grocery store marketing thing, I’m a pretty list-centric person. I make the list of what we’re going to eat every week, I make a grocery list from that, and then I pretty much stick to…
I don’t know what’s wrong with me. First I complain about fall coming, as if I want to hang on to this sauna of a summer, and now I’m making graham cracker toffee, which is practically jumping to Christmas. Actually, I’ll tell you what’s wrong with me. The grocery store next to our apartment. Where…
Cornbread is one of those things where I am convinced there must be a Yankee somewhere in my bloodline (similar to the way my general indifference to sweet tea does). Cornbread in the south is savory, and often cooked in a cast iron skillet. There is cornbread with bacon, and cornbread with jalepeños, and cornbread…