I could only be so lucky. Happy Mother's Day! … [Read more...]
Poor influences…
May 10, 2012 by · 17 Comments
So I was looking ahead at my calendar only to see that coming in June is BlogHerFood12. Normally this would mean nothing to me other than the fact that I am going this year. I always want to go but usually don’t have the means. But this year it’s in Seattle and right around the time tickets went on sale for the event, this girl won herself some money for growing a home farm on her patio. I took that as a sign. The last blogging event I went to I will admit I mostly went to meet people. I didn’t really care about the speakers, with the exception being Penny De Los Santos, I wanted to meet people. And I did and it was odd. I am who I am on my blog….but many other people are not. They are much more subdued than what they are on their blog. Which in a way makes sense as it is some people’s outlets. Sadly my partner in crime from last time Amanda of Food Porn Daily won’t be there. She was my partner in crime for the fact that we had a habit of sneaking in and drinking beer … [Read more...]
Unmistakable…
May 8, 2012 by · 6 Comments
One time when I was a teenager and my parents went back to see my grandpa I was left to my own devices. I was left with grocery money (because I knew how to cook) and money for Chinese food (which is pretty much all I wanted to eat back then…kind of still do). For whatever reason I really, really wanted potato salad but we had no hard boiled eggs…but for some reason I had already boiled potatoes. So I had a great idea. Put the egg in the microwave. So I did. It was fine. Since I was in a rush I decided I would put it in a bowl and run it under cold water to speed up the process. And with that I had hardboiled egg 4th of July…with little bits of hard boiled fireworks flying through the kitchen everywhere. I cleaned up what I saw but I’m not a very good cleaner and when my mom came home in a couple of days she noticed right away (I missed the large chunks of the ceiling….who knew?) My parents weren’t mad or anything. I mean you know you have a good teen when you go away … [Read more...]
Can’t STRESS it enough…
May 5, 2012 by · 11 Comments
Today while watching some business leadership videos that the UW puts out, they were interviewing the former CEO of Starbucks. He said: “There Are No Stressful Situations ONLY Stressful Responses” I love that. Goes along with my life is 10% of what happens and 90% of how you react to it philosophy. Something we should all be working on to remember. Boozy Banana Bread 1 cup cake flour 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 tsp. baking soda 2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1/3 cup butter, at room temperature 2 eggs, well-beaten 2/3 cup granulated sugar 1 ¼ cups mashed ripe bananas 3 TBSP bourbon 1/2 tsp. lemon juice 3/4 cup chocolate chips 3/4 cup chopped pecans Glaze: 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 2 TBSP corn syrup 1 TBSP bourbon Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. In a medium-sized bowl, stir together flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, cream butter with an electric mixer (I … [Read more...]
