This month, I was challenge by The Recipe Redux to make a lucky food. The idea that food can be lucky and that people specifically make lucky foods to start their new year was completely foreign to me, but I could definitely use some luck in my life. I’ve had an all around challenging year with my house, my health, and my kitties, so I’m hoping a little bit of lucky food can help turn it around for next year. Because I didn’t know foods could be lucky, I had to do a little research. There are lots of Asian foods tied with luck, but that’s a little out of my comfort zone, and I really just want comfort this time of year. Apparently, round foods and golden foods are...
What the what? This was supposed to post on November 20th and for some reason didn’t. (Thanks WordPress, for never alerting me to this fact?) After my vacation, I was too busy playing catchup to notice. It’s now a month late , so I feel extra bad about never posting a review after the people at MyOatmeal.com were so kind to send me tasty oats to sample. Rather than delay it longer to re-write the post, you can all see how excited I was about my vacation before I took it, ha. Greetings, everyone! I’m probably in Jamaica today or on a big awesome ship, but I couldn’t leave you without a post. The wonderful people over at MyOatmeal.com sent me some delicious oatmeal to review. Since I’m apparently bad at...
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Apparently I decided Wednesday was a Kelly holiday and took the day off from posting. Oopsies! While I normally post every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I really feel no obligation to keep to a schedule — especially with all of the holiday obligations this time of year. Anyone else like that? Am I just a lazy blogger? If we’re being fair, I even had a recipe ready for Wednesday. It’s not this one, though. I made these cookies to bring to work on Thursday and they were just too delicious to not post. The chocolate/orange combo isn’t anything new or innovative. In fact, I decided on these cookies solely because Target was out of those foil wrapped chocolate oranges (Love those!). If you wanted to make these unbelievably delicious...
Happy Monday, everyone! Okay. I get it. Mondays are not happy. That’s why I have another giveaway to brighten up your day. I’ve been sitting on this one a while, and I apologize. Between my vacation and a series of household mishaps (why didn’t anyone warn me not to buy a house??), this just kept getting pushed back. My coworker hosted a Wildtree freezer party back in October and while I couldn’t attend, Leah (you can get to Wildtree’s website there) was nice enough to send some samples my way and provide for a giveaway. For those of you who haven’t heard of Wildtree, they offer certified organic spice blends, grapeseed oils, bread mixes, dips, and soup mixes that are free of preservatives, additives, and fillers while promoting a healthier...
When we were on vacation, all I wanted the whole time was Mexican food. On the cruise ship I couldn’t really demand whatever kind of food I wanted, and I wasn’t about to search out a Mexican restaurant in Jamaica, but I had a little control in Florida. I asked everyone who looked like they lived there for a recommendation for a good Mexican restaurant, and you know what I got? NOTHING! Not sure if Floridians hate Mexican food, but not one person could even name one Mexican restaurant, unless you count Chipotle (and I most certainly do not!). Since getting home, I’ve made a lot of my version of Mexican food and apparently, I’m really into enchiladas lately. Homemade enchilada sauce is just too jammin` to leave it to...
Despite the fact that I haven’t finished raking the leaves in my yard, we have a solid layer of snow on top. The only thing that keeps me moving forward is that as the weather gets colder, the beverages get hotter. I’ve always been a sucker for hot chocolate, tea, coffee, anything warm and delightful, but it’s a real downer having to skip the marshmallows on top (except on the rare occasion I get my hands on vegetarian marshmallows). When I saw amazing looking chocolate chip marshmallows this season, I knew something had to be done to keep me from going crazy with envy. That’s where the idea for cookie croutons came in. Josh and I have been arguing over whose idea these were, that’s how good they are. Josh...
What do you look forward to when you get back from a vacation? Is flying home on your birthday only to discover that you have to throw away everything in your fridge and freezer? Because that’s what I got. There were some bad storms in Michigan while I was gone and the power was out for several days. Silver lining: I missed having to go 3 days without electricity! Other than that, I had a great time and I’ll probably post some pictures later. I’m not usually one to carry a camera with me, so we didn’t take too many. Mostly of some adorable animals we saw while in Florida pre- and post- cruise. I originally posted this cheesy rice and broccoli casserole on Hannah’s blog earlier this year. I put a placeholder on...
I couldn’t very well share a gingerbread spice mix and not show you a billion ways to use it, now could I? When I was drinking/spilling the gingerbread latte that inspired the mix recipe, I was also eating an incredibly disappointing scone. Scones are my jam, people, I can’t just ignore them when they sit looking all delicious in a glass case. But when disappointment scones strike, I (like any sane person in the world) feel compelled to make a million perfect scones for myself. Normal scone recipes use a lot of butter, but not mine! No butter here. Frankly, I’ve forgotten how to use butter. No joke, at this point when I try to make “traditional” cookies with butter from the simplest of recipes, I get a big mess. ...
