I was planning a post on how to breakdown a chicken this week. My local news station kept kicking me back into reality, though. This is a map that was posted on social media of the weather that was forecasted for us this past weekend. As I type this post, people are wading through waist-high…
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Part 2 of NYC Eats: 15 Places You Must Visit in NYC
I don’t know what’s harder- having to leave New York City, or having to hunt down amazing restaurants in a food desert. The Twinks and I found ourselves searching for a dinner spot after spending the day de-hoarding their rooms (don’t ask). Signs that read “CLOSED” are what the we faced on Saturday evening, instead….
NYC Eats (Part 1): 15 Places You Must Visit in NYC (Plus a Few Extras)
This is actually a piece from Ferdinand Hodler, called “The Despairing Souls”. It’s currently on display at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Our trip to NYC was so exciting and full of amazing times and GREAT eats, that we felt like these dudes on the way home; especially knowing we still have months to…
10 Amazing Father’s Day Gifts for the Cook in Your Life
Dad’s Day is fast approaching! I’m sure you have a special Father in your life- whether he helped to create you, helped you create, or has simply chosen to be a part of your life; Dads can be amazing guys. Some Fathers are also amazing cooks! Cooking is obviously a male-dominated profession, so it’s no surprise that many…
I can’t believe it’s been a year since I published Taste & See Cooks! This time last year, I was freaking the hell out wondering if anyone was going to buy it, let alone love it. I have no idea what I was worried about. My literary baby was received with open arms. My first order was for…
I DIY’d a Portable Kitchen Island!
…and I survived!! Yes, friends, the thing I felt I needed to do most urgently once my Soldier deployed was DIY a big ol’ portable kitchen island! Because spouses of the deployed must do those types of things when they’re single parenting/cooking/homeowning/car maintaining/tax-preparing/barely hanging on by a thread. That’s what we do. Well, that’s what I do…because I have…
The Deployment Strikes Back: Facts of Deployment
The deployment strikes back…can’t you hear the Imperial March reaching its crescendo? Deployments are weird like that, very much Darth Vaderesque in the way the roll up on you like, “What? Say something. Bet you won’t.” …and you don’t. You kind of stand there; a cowering, blubbering idiot as your Soldier takes its hand and…
