Barefoot Contessa Beef Chili

The flu has invaded my house. Just Emery so far and we are doing everything we can to keep it that way. Poor thing is on day three of a fever and headache and generally feeling like poop. Half of her soccer team and a bunch of classmates are also sick. What a weird time […]

Book Club Book Review: The God of the Woods

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore was our March Book B*tches selection. This was a great mystery! I thoroughly enjoyed the plot and characters. Most importantly, it made for a good discussion. I plan to read Long Bright River, also by Liz Moore, soon. She is definitely an author on my radar now. […]

Meal Plan for the Week

I shared a meal plan sample back in the fall and it was well received. It’s time for another, this time with a focus on hearty, cozy meals. As always, these are something that can come together relatively quickly, thrown in a slow cooker, or be made ahead of time. That’s just the season of […]

Book B*tches: The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

Happy Wednesday! Last week I hosted my B*tches to discuss The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger while dining on food from the book. It’s not what I thought it was, but that turned out to be a good thing because I’m not sure I would have read it had I known. I really […]

Happy New Year and a Fabulous Winter Recipe

Cheers to 2024! We ended 2023 traveling home from El Paso (more on that in tomorrow’s Travel Tuesday), so today is all about football and taking down Christmas decorations. And sharing a recipe with you! I made this one chilly evening the week before Christmas and it was a smashing success. I’m talking about Ina […]

Low Country “Boil”

I guess this is a food blog now. Bodie requested a low country boil for dinner on Memorial Day. I was a little intimidated by this meal because I am not a seafood eater and I definitely do not know how to cook it. However, I remembered that one of my trusty Ina Garten cookbooks […]