You know it’s been a good day when you come home and your hair still smells like melted butter. Yes, I think even the Queen of Butter herself, Paula Deen, would’ve been a little jealous of me today because every single dish I cooked in my “Fast French” cooking class [...]
If you don’t have the time or money to hopscotch from one exotic locale to another (and really, who does, especially these days?), I recently found the perfect way to travel around the world—no passport required. Like some of the best discoveries in life, it was completely accidental. I’d heard [...]
Confession time: So, I have a new lunch ritual… Well, when I’m not in the middle of 1,353 deadlines anyway, which was basically the case all this week. But when my work day isn’t quite so insane, I make my salad, pour myself a glass of green tea sweetened a [...]
I intentionally ended yesterday’s blog post with an ellipsis because I knew I had so much to say about Rome and didn’t want anyone’s eyes popping out of his/her head while I was yammering on and on and on… Truth be told, I left for this trip longing for inspiration. [...]
Maybe it’s my insane love of pasta, Parmesan and the perfect slice of crusty bread rubbed with garlic and topped with fresh basil, a drizzle of olive oil and the sweetest of tomatoes or all those repeat viewings of Roman Holiday, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Under the Tuscan Sun [...]
I left most of the picture taking to Will on our recent European adventure, but I couldn’t resist taking a shot of this particular basket of bread in Paris. No herbs, no cheese, they just served it with lots of unsalted butter (European, of course, which means more butterfat). And [...]
Back before Will and I were Mr. + Mrs., we were always introducing each other to a few of our favorite things, namely, the books, music and movies that rocked our respective worlds. While we already shared many, many favorites in common, there was still a bit of a cinematic [...]
It’s been one crazy post-vacation week, let me tell ya. If I had my druthers, I would’ve started blogging way back on Monday morning. But when you’ve been out of town for almost two weeks, well, you can imagine how crammed my Inbox was. It was downright terrifying. Now that [...]
When you’re a kid growing up in small-town Wisconsin, you can’t help dreaming about all the glamorous locales that exist outside of America’s Dairyland. It’s like Sandra Bullock’s character said so eloquently in While You Were Sleeping: “It’s amazing how exotic Wisconsin…isn’t.” But before you assume that I’m dedicating an [...]
It's no secret I was definitely rooting for Aarti to win the Next Food Network Star title. And now that she has, I have to say I absolutely, positively love her cooking show, Aarti’s Party. It’s so much fun that 30 minutes whizzes by like nobody’s business. Now while I [...]
