It’s fat Tuesday, y’all! How better to celebrate than with my mama’s recipe for fried chicken. I want to start by saying how hard it was to make this “recipe”. I’ve never measured anything when frying chicken before. So, it was a stretch to measure EVERYTHING. Man was it worth it, though! Recently, I had…
Category: The Good Life
Bento Style Snack Box
Happy Mindful Monday! Sometimes mindfulness comes in the form of preparedness, especially when you’ve got kiddos! It seems like my boys are ALWAYS hungry! Can I get a freaking amen??? They seem to go in waves, which I’m assuming are growth spurt related, but they are never on the same timeline. Right now, my little…
Skeleton Treats
The skeleton rises on halloween. Emerging from the ground to walk the earth for one haunted, creeping, calorie filled night of the year! Ok, I’m talking about sweets! Three treats in one, actually! These adorable cookie concoctions can be as simple or as “from scratch” as you like. Send a tray of them to school…
The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie
Ok, perfect for me. I LOVE a soft and gooey, nearly cakey CCC. I played around with the sugars and the butter, and I believe this is the best combo for that tender, milk-thirsty morsel. Ok, hold up… I think I just felt my milk let down. “Tender milk-thirsty morsel”? Is that sentence about one…
Cool as a Cucumber Margarita
I have been a “vodka girl” for a long time. I was a bartender in my early twenties and was turned off by too many shots of cheap tequila. Trust me on this, good tequila is worth it. I like this particular tequila, Corazon. It’s a smooth reposado that has a sweet finish. I decided…
Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Mousse
In my hometown of Stockton, there was a restaurant that was an old style quintessential steak house. Classic steak dishes with an Italian flare. Dimly lit with candles on the tables, a waitress with a transparent beehive and a smokers rasp, was likely your server. This place, was called Stockton Joe’s. My dad loved this…
Spiced Zucchini Bread
Every year my mom, aunt and grandma would gather during the holidays and have a baking/candy making extravaganza! It was a sight to behold and the sheer volume of their goods was enough to feed an army. The yield from this day known only as “Candy Making” has been a staple in my holiday life…
Croissant Bread Pudding & A Maple Butter Glaze
How’s that strike you for a Fat Tuesday post? I needed to shoot a “Brunch Story” for work and one of the products was a beautiful ceramic baking dish. I immediately had visions of bread pudding dancing through my head! I’ve been wanting to do a croissant version of this classic breakfast bake and this…
Mindful Monday and your Crock-Pot
Listen, the Crock-Pot needs to be a staple in the lives of busy families everywhere! Not only does it provide a means to a delicious meal with minimal effort, but you can make a lot at one time which makes for easy meal prep! This weeks meal prep is the tortilla-less burrito! All of the…
Pomegranate Orange Scones
My big kid LOVES a good scone. In fact, given the choice between a scone and most any other pastry, we will always go with the scone. He’s even become a scone critic. He wants crumbly but not dry, sweet but not cloyingly so… He’s nine. What the hell, kid? Eat a muffin and shut…
Rose Petal Lemonade
Our AC unit went out the other day and we had to spend two, yes two, full days without air conditioning! *GASP* One of those days was a highly unusual mid-week day off. So, I was home in that mess and it was as hot as balls up in here! I decided that I needed…
Fat Tuesday: Caramel Corn Butter Cake
Yep! You read that right, I said Caramel Corn Butter Cake! I can’t think of a more delicious sounding sentence, can you? We had a work event and I wanted to bring something especially decadent… This fit the bill. The buttery flavor of the bundt cake, the caramel topping, combined with the caramel corn was…
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