For the last oh, five-ish(?) months Rhonda and I have been really adamant about cooking at home.  A stark contrast to our old lifestyle of, "What are we ordering in for dinner tonight, Honey?"  Beyond that we've been extremely aware of what we're putting in our bodies (for health reasons), which is forcing us to be less lazy about where we get our ( Read more... )

Inspired by a conversation with an old classmate on Facebook, I decided to create my own muffin recipe from scratch.  Specifically, a muffin recipe built completely around the ingredient of dark rum.  Awwwww yeeeeaaaaah.

I did a teensy bit of research just to be sure that I got my chemistry correct.  I didn't want to overpower my starches/sugars/ ( Read more... )

Yesterday it hit me that I'm scheduled to hang a bunch of paintings in Barnaby's this Saturday.  And then it hit me that I just ran out of artist cards.  I managed to get a digital file over to one of my printers and VIOLA!  I have artist cards (on giant sheets of card stock).  Today I am hovering over a paper cutter, cutting out 200+ of these ( Read more... )

Lately (and I completely blame stress for this), I've been eating a lot of random crap food.  Like a pregnant chick who just took one too many bong hits.  Last night I was craving ice cream so bad that I was willing to attempt eating from a pint of Ben and Jerry's that had been in our freezer since the conception of Jesus.  There was more ice and ( Read more... )

For Chanukah, my father gifted Rhonda and me with two seats to a Central Market cooking demonstration by Monica Pope.  Monica Pope is a bit of a food celebrity, and someone Rhonda and I have idolized (in terms of culinary talent) for years.  We held our rehearsal dinner the night before our wedding at Monica's restaurant, T'afia.  As far as I'm ( Read more... )