so... yeah. i abandoned my poor, helpless blog. i've probably lost anyone who may possibly have been checking here regularly but i had to do it. writing my...
john and i took a little road trip for the day to topeka because, well, it's there. i want to see as many kansas towns before we move to colorado next year & the state...
i'm a little embarrassed to say that i was an adult before i had my first gyro. i worked at the st. louis galleria at the one hour photo shop. the store i worked at is no longer...
my brother is an amazing cook. he's the type of person who can take whatever is in the kitchen and make up a dish that turns out delicious. that's one place we...
i've been a bad, bad blogger. we've had some great visitors the last couple weeks (some friends drove all the way from champaign, il to see us & my brother stopped by...
lately i have developed an obsession, one that has been building for a while. it is an obsession with focaccia. i think i first had focaccia on a sandwich at bread co (or panera...
as i've mentioned before, i grew up in what was a very rural part of st. charles county in missouri. we had to drive pretty far (by today's standards) to get to anything. the...
i tried to be a vegetarian once. i was a senior in high school and one of my good friends, katherine, was a vegetarian. i envied her seemingly effortless coolness & wanted...
part of what has become panera bread started as st. louis bread company in, of all places, st. louis (weird, right?). i first fell in love with bread co (as the locals...
my dad was a viking. his grandfather came to america from norway (i even found his name on the ellis island website) and settled in chicago. i am 1/4 norwegian and am very...
i have no allusions of grandeur when it comes to tableware. i don't care who designed it, where you bought it or how expensive it was. i see no point in spending a bunch of...
my mom invented chocolate waffles. i know, you're saying "but i saw this on 'good eats' a while ago" or "these are in a cookbook i have" but i'm telling you, my mom invented...
i have been consumed with trying to catch up on the last 2 harry potter books i haven't read yet. i'm hoping to finish before i accidentally hear a spoiler about the last...
i just saw alton brown ice a cake with the help of a record player. pure genius.if you google "zatarains gassy" (making sure not to put the apostrophe in) i am the very...
here's a few odds & ends, none of which are really enough for a post on their own.i just learned from unwrapped that when 3 musketeers first came out, it had 3 small bars in...
when i was growing up, my mom nearly always made dinner. i'm talking a main meat dish and side dishes cooked on the stove & placed on pot holders with real plates set...
i remember the very first time i went to subway. my college boyfriend, joe, took me to the subway in kirksville, missouri (i went to what is now truman state university...
i was tagged by a very cool chicky from my home state of missouri, glenna, over at a fridge full of food... with a meme. so this entry may not be entirely about...
(from the above picture we learn that cell phone cameras are not always a good substitute when your real camera's battery is dead.)i remember an episode of "roseanne" where she...
the other night i looked for a simple chicken recipe that i could bake. aside from the previous reason i mentioned (someone else has figured out the cook time for me) i...
my first experience with cajun style food was my dad's jambalaya which he made a lot when i was a kid. he told me that the whole purpose of jambalaya was to take whatever...
okay, yeah... so the "no chains" thing. i didn't know it was a chain. really, i'd never heard of "le peep" before. it seems that a lot of chains skip right...
first thing- please relieve my anxiety about having the least liked blog in the 'sphere by posting a comment. even if you just say "hi, i'm here & you stink", i want...
after we checked out part of town, the fort and the prison in leavenworth (read about it here), we had dinner before we left. i had written down several places from...
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