One Pot Spanish Rice

Is anyone  experiencing an Election Day hangover? Not the booze induced kind (unless you are…no judgement, I get it.) but rather the kind that comes from nail-biting anxiety and an over-indulgence in things like chocolate, or perhaps a particularly hefty Chipotle burrito bowl.  Yeah.  Me too.  I woke up this morning wanting to crawl back into bed.  Isn’t it Friday yet?  It seems like Friday.  Nope.  Still Wednesday. Hump day. That joke never gets old.  Truth.

So, let’s make something easy.  Something you can make in one pot.  Who wants to do dishes on a Wednesday?  Not me.  Let’s minimize and simplify and make something comforting, flavorful and delicious.  Today I bring you a One-Pot Spanish Rice. […]

Light As Air Pumpkin Cake | Gluten-Free

I went to the mall this weekend.  They were playing Christmas carols.  I spent my ride home singing “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” without realizing what was going on.  They inadvertently hijacked my holiday spirit. Crafty.

Why do we have to rush through this holiday season?  I still have my jack o’lantern on the porch.  Chill.  We’ve got time.  Let’s not rush things.  I’ve still got pumpkin recipes for you!  I am not ready to switch to egg nog (least of all because it’s awful).  Fall has barely arrived.  I just want to relish in cinnamon and cloves and all that this season has to offer before I am bombarded by peppermint, blow-up snowmen and Mall Santas.  We will get there.  All in due time. […]

Balela | A Recipe For Friendship

 

I made a new friend! *clicking heels* (Note: I can’t actually click my heels in real life.  I can, however,  high five enthusiastically and dance spastically to anything with a beat.  Salt N’ Pepa preferred.)

Making awesome new friends is a big deal.

When we were kids making friends was easy.  We were all thrown into a small space to learn things together.  We complimented each other’s slap bracelets or New Kids on The Block T-shirts and BAM, friendship.  Easy. We go to middle school and we all bond over boys and baby doll T-shirts and an intense love for the band TLC (maybe this was uniquely my experience, I won’t put that on you.  I WILL say that I subscribed to VIBE magazine for a suspiciously long amount of time.) We travel onto high school where it is more boys, tight pants, musical theater,  Cliffs Notes, and the notion that parents simply just don’t understand.  College comes around, and every one of us freshman is so freaked out that you have instant besties by day one.  It’s almost like you grab onto the first person you see (usually your roommate) and figuratively (or literally) hold hands and walk the mean halls together.  Of course, by the first week of college, you usually realize that you have made a rash decision by adhering yourself  onto the first person you came in contact with.  Maybe that person turns out to be selling drugs out of your dorm room closet.  Maybe they decide to cook very suspect and fragrant ethnic foods in the room using nothing but your rented microwave and a rice cooker.  But, no worries… everyone is on the hunt for new besties.  Your people are out there.   You find them. […]

Good Things Come In Small Packages…

 Shetland ponies.  Case and point.
Also, have you ever seen a pygmy marmoset?  Yup.
This doodle came to play after a particularly upsetting visit to the Dr.   I got to do the dreaded height and weight.  I stood up nice and tall, hoping that they might measure me at the top of my bun. Turns out I […]