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January 2014

Are you tired of chili yet?  No?  Good!  What about the freezing cold weather?  Are you tired of that yet?  Yyyeah, me too!  I am glad we agree on both of those.  Since we are all still loving on chili, I have a delicious recipe to share with you.  And, because it has been so bitterly [...]

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A lot of my creative (or some may think "weird") recipes come about when I am lying in bed at night and cannot sleep.  This is great and all, but it is also a little bit inconvenient since it a) interrupts my sleep and b) causes me to have to get out of bed to [...]

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Welcome to the first What I Ate Wednesday post of the year!  Exciting times, am I right? ;)  In all seriousness, I actually happen to think that food is pretty exciting, and I love seeing what other people eat in a day.  I guess that is what happens when you are a self-proclaimed foodie.  And for those [...]

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I have a confession to make.  As a meat-eater, I never liked chicken salad.  In fact, the idea of it totally repulsed me.  Now, as a mostly plant-based eater, I eat some of the strangest things.  Well, they are really only strange to my former meat-eating self.  I hate regular mayonnaise, but I love vegan [...]

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Happy Monday!  There goes my attempt at positive thinking, again ;).  If we think it will be a happy Monday then it will be, right?  Or at least I hope that is how it works.  I was already back to work last Thursday and Friday, but this is my first official full week back at [...]

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Welcome to the first Friday Foodie Favorites of 2014!  I had to think a little bit when I was writing the title to this post.  I am still not used to it being 2014 and not 2013.  I have a feeling it will take me several weeks to fully get used to that.  But 2014 [...]

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Happy New Year!

in Other

The year 2013 has come and gone, and now 2014 is upon us.  A lot happened for me in 2013- both positive and negative.  I moved five hours away from my hometown- including my family and friends (talk about tough!), started my first "big girl" job, made new friends and blends in Omaha, attended HLS13, [...]

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