Archive for January, 2011

Salmon Salad & Sweet Potato Fries

Salmon Salad and Sweet Potato Fries

When I worked at my old job I had a super flexible schedule. I could work from home quite often and didn’t usually have to work nights or weekends. But every couple of months my turn in the rotation would come around to work a [...]

Local Restaurant Review: Gabby’s Burgers & Fries

Seamus Burger at Gabby’s

I’ve always said it’s the hole-in-the-wall places that generally have the best food. And that’s definitely what this place is. A hole. in. the. wall. I likely would have never found this place were it not for Groupon. And even then, I almost passed it [...]

Cinnamon Coffee Cake Muffins

Cinnamon Coffee Cake Muffin-Finished Product

It was a Saturday morning. A lazy Saturday morning. One of those wonderful weekend mornings that just begs for cinnamon rolls. With lots of cream cheese icing. Well, needless to say, we don’t eat packaged cinnamon rolls that are full of bleached flour, sugar, & [...]

Whole Chicken in the Crock Pot

chicken-leg

It has been ridiculously snowy this winter in the South. Case in point: I’m sitting at the table right now looking out the window at 3-4 inches of snow on the ground. For the THIRD time this winter. Please note that a good snow like [...]

Pumpkin Cake Bars

pumpkin-bars

I think I missed the boat on this one. I know October was prime time for pumpkin recipes. But in an effort to defy social convention for once in my life (or maybe just adhere to the ‘better late than never’ principle), I wanted to [...]

Homeless, but Eating Like Kings

Homeless, but Eating Like Kings

That’s what we are! Homeless. Or I suppose the term would more accurately be house-less or apartment-less. Just one step closer to the other side of the world. Less and less holding us back. Moving out of our apartment posed some interesting dilemmas: What to [...]