What's For Dinner?

Power of Suggestion

If you’re here from my guest post on The Fitnessista, welcome! I hope you stay a while! So, there’s this message board I frequent. Some of you know what it is, some of you don’t… I’ll leave you guessing. In any case, someone brought up goulash today. Goulash. It sounds like golashes, but more edible. [...]

Mission Number Two: Feel Better

I knew that once Spring arrived, things would start to turn around. It was light until almost 7 p.m. tonight, the sun is in the sky, birds are chirping… and there was one little thing I’d been waiting to hear for the last four years. Being a teacher brings a small (ok, huge) amount of [...]

Mission Number 1: Eat More Veggies

One of the easiest things I can do to help myself be healthier is to eat more veggies. It seems simple enough, but in the winter months in Chicago, truly flavorful vegetables tend to lurk in the cruciferous and tuberous families. Ok, really what I mean is that there’s broccoli and potatoes. Today, on an [...]

Cute Food Saturday!

Happy Cute-day! I hope you all had a lovely week, but if you’re anything like me, you’re probably pretty glad it’s the weekend! We’re going to focus today on the tiny. Some are edible, some are not… can you guess which is which? There’s something remarkable about things that are supposed to be LARGE but [...]

Winging It

Thank you all so much for your supportive words on my last post! I think that with all your support, and of course the support of Adam and my family, I CAN DO THIS!! So, in the spirit of going healthier, I knew that tonight’s dinner had to be a complete trifecta: A good balance [...]

Wednesday in Numbers: The “I Miss Summer” Edition

Seriously. I’m Summer-sick. Since I do these posts all Summer, I thought maybe it would help me feel like it might, maybe, possibly get warm out, someday. 6: Classes taught today 174: Students taught today 47: Minutes per class 26: Minutes of free time 24: Ounces of coffee consumed 24: Ounces of Diet Coke consumed [...]

A Whole New Slow

On Wednesday night, I was lucky enough to have the meal of my life. There were 21 courses of remarkable food, and while most of them were something I could never in a million years hope to recreate, there was one that I knew I could attempt. This one: I knew I couldn’t try the [...]

Sprinkleidescope

I threw together a batch of caramel the other day. I didn’t really know what I was doing, or what I would do with said caramel, but I just knew I had to use up the half cup of heavy cream that was taking up space in my fridge, and doing the culinary equivalent of [...]

Sweet Pea Cupcakes

Imagine my delight when, on Friday, I parked my car on a side street near the nail salon I was visiting, looked out my window and saw a sign that said “Sweet Pea Cupcakes”! I walked in with a huge smile on my face, and immediately wished I had my camera with me. So, darn, [...]

Cute Food Saturday!

Happy Saturday! It’s snowing here… again. I’m about done with this whole “winter” thing. We’re going to try something new this week too, just for fun! At the end of this post is a place for you to submit your own cute food if you’d like. It might just become a weekly thing! [source] [source] [...]