The creative cooking escape of a busy mama in Army Boots.
I'm pretty good about keeping the clutter in my house to a minimum, but you know where I am absolutely terrible? My digital life. Isn't that horrible? I work in data. I live in information. I get paid to organize it. And I'm a digital hoarder. It's pretty fun sometimes, though, because I find things [...]
Jump to Recipe! I won't say the holidays in my family are stressful. It's nice to be around a bunch of people who are related and also happen to like each other and have decent people skills. I also won't say the holidays in my family aren't stressful. Because there's just something about this time of year [...]
Jump to Recipe! When Scott and I first moved in together, he had a lengthy list of foods he didn't like. But as I discovered while overcoming my own childhood picky eating habits as a young adult, my husband didn't actually dislike most of those foods themselves, but the way they were prepared. So we [...]
I'm out all week at the Association of the U.S. Army annual event for work, so what better time to go do a little food exploring? The Food Exploring series is a way to revisit adventures I've been on around the world that have opened my eyes, inspired me to think in different ways, and [...]
Jump to Recipe! We've been helping our aged oven limp along for so long, I forgot how long it's been since we had a real oven! Pretty sure the oven was installed when the house was built, so it had been limping along for fifteen years. So when it started to die, I figured it [...]
I've been hanging onto this recipe for a while, but I held it because maple and butterscotch seem well suited to Octobers. The hard part hasn't been gushing over this recipe because it's so good {it is!}. The hard part has been not adding to it. You see, I have this thing with maple. I [...]
Jump to Recipe! I've mentioned that I've put in time in restaurants. I probably haven't mentioned that I also used to bartend once upon a time. I was drawn to it by the romance of the idea and by, quite honestly, boredom. At the time, I was stuck in Middle of Nowhere, Missouri, near enough [...]
