kale

Punkin’ for my punkin’

Soooo, we never got around to carving our pumpkin.   But it didn’t go to waste… Friday afternoon we were housebound while waiting for our wine delivery to come (I had to be home to sign for it since we’d missed the first two attempts). So what did we do?  Played with pumpkin guts. P watched on as I hacked our little sugar pumpkin from Impossible Acres open and scooped out the seeds.  I roasted them – making half savory (salt & pepper) and half sweet (cinnamon & stevia).  [BTW, I did not boil them… Read more >

A real cake and banana baked oatmeal

  Buying bananas at Costco is hard to pass up (so cheap!) but they all go ripe at the same time.  All 150 of them.  So one second you have a bunch of green fruit and then you blink and find yourself with a million pounds of brown spotted bananas to use up.  Stat.  I’ve been adding them to everything.  And freezing them for smoothies.  I have 2 loaves of banana bread in my freezer.  I have pumpkin banana bread in the fridge.  I have made gluten free banana pancakes for myself twice.   These… Read more >

I’ll never cook again

I said that to Kyle an embarrassing number of times on our last Costco run.  First of all, I was in a really lazy rut with food prep.  But in reality, I’m more and more impressed with the Costco selection every time we go!  Why should I make anything from scratch!?!  [I kid, my love for the  kitchen will obviously prevail, but my previous point is still valid.  Costco FTW!]   This dinner came together in a matter of minutes – and how fancy does it look!   An avocado and goat cheese massaged kale… Read more >

Weekend in Chico (woo!)

Kyle and his friends (who all grew up together in Chico) always say “woooo!” after anyone mentions Chico, so it’s become a habit for me too.  So that’s what the post title is about. I’ve written about Chico visits before, and we usually got to the same spots, so I won’t elaborate too much on the food. Friday night I had my fantasy draft and Kyle went to poker night. In spite of my half assed research, I came out with a decent team (I hope?) but it was very stressful…hence the chocolate wrappers.  … Read more >

San Fran-iversary weekend

I realize this post is hardly timely.  We didn’t get back from the city until Monday evening and then I worked two nights in a row though…sooo…what can you do?  Truthfully, my weekend recaps are my own selfish way of documenting our memories forever and ever.  If others enjoy them, great!    So let’s back track to Saturday.  I was recovering from a few night shifts so we kept the day mellow.  I ate at odd times and didn’t get close to capturing everything I ate on film.  Did you know sleep deprivation can make… Read more >