Brownies are true comfort food. Cakey, yet fudge-y, and completely decadent when topped with ice cream and served warm. When I got the newest issue of Bon Appetit magazine in the mail two weeks ago, I knew I would have to try the cover recipe, Brownies with Browned Butter and Walnuts. I love trying brownie recipes for some reason and these looked divine. And they did not disappoint. Gooey in…
The Super Bowl is coming up on Sunday, and this girl loves a Super Bowl party. I really don’t know why that is. I am not a big fan of football (much to my hubby’s dismay), and I could care even less about NFL football. Andrew blames it on the fact that I didn’t go to a football school (yup I confess, I love basketball, can you blame me?). The truth…
The weather has been dreadful lately, and I have had little to no interest in leaving my house. I pack all of my errands into one outing, so I only have to dart from my car to my apartment door twice. And after weeks of sitting in my perpetually cold home office bundled up in a puffy jacket, I finally bought a space heater which has literally SAVED my life.…
Happy New Year! I am going to be honest. 2011 has gotten off to quite the rocky start for yours truly. I’m really not sure where things went wrong. 2010 ended quite nicely and BOOM. January hit with a vengeance. And so I have decided (as of twenty minutes ago) that instead of letting things spiral out of control and pout about it, I am going to take matters into…
I know what you must be thinking. Brussels sprouts? Really? Yes. Really. And before you judge, these are not your typical brussels. I was not one of those kids that grew up in a household where I was forced to eat brussels sprouts. Not that we didn’t have veggies at my family dinner table, but I just don’t remember having this veggie until high school when my mom made a…
I want to start off by saying that I am shocked by how long it has taken me to post. It is truly embarrassing. Yes, I have been busy the past three months. My husband (yay!) got a job in Charlottesville and in two weeks, we packed up our 800 square foot DC apartment with a shocking amount of boxes (how did we fit everything in that tiny place?!?) and…
There is the most amazing restaurant in Durham, NC that I used to make my parents take me to whenever they visited me in Chapel Hill throughout my college years there. Durham is just a short drive from Chapel Hill and many may ask why we made that trek even though there are so many exceptional restaurants in Chapel Hill. Well, my family is one to travel for good food,…
I don’t really remember eating meatloaf growing up. In fact, I feel like meatloaf has gotten a bad rap for all of these years. Maybe because it can be synonymous with cafeteria food or because it was always featured looking plastic-y and dry on 1950’s t.v. dinners (sort of like Salsbury Steak right? Blech). Or maybe because it looks like brown mystery meat. Whatever the reason is irrelevant. Meatloaf seems…