Greetings from DC! I made a very long trek from LA to Washington yesterday and the amazing Jen from Savory Simple housed me in her beautiful home, and today we’re heading out to a 5-hour drive to Mixed along with Erin from eat bake drink cook and Jackie from Jackie’s Joie de Vivre. It’ll be a great road trip filled with granola and Dunkin Donuts. Can it get any better?
I have a weird relationship with butternut squash. I like it in chunks when it’s tossed in with some pasta but after a couple of bites, I’m completely over it. But the funny thing about it is that I am head-over-heels in love with butternut squash puree. Bizarre, right?
I know I say this almost every week but is it really Monday? I’m still recovering from turkey day and now I have to sit at work for 8 hours with my pants fitting way too tight. Ugh. There’s no way that I’d make it through a 5-day work week so I cannot be more relieved that I am going to Mixed this weekend.
In other news, I hope I can make your Monday a bit better with this awesome Bellindora giveaway.
I hope you all are recovering from Thanksgiving. I obviously ate way too much than I could actually handle and then had a second round of Thanksgiving leftovers on Friday where we had the most amazing turkey ham sandwiches with cranberry sauce and gravy-drenched boxed stuffing. Yeah, you heard right, boxed stuffing. We all devoured the chestnut-pancetta stuffing that was made for Thursday so we had to resort to Mrs. Cubbison’s classic dressing. And surprisingly enough, the boxed ones are actually pretty good!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I had the best Thanksgiving of all where I was surrounded by such a loving family and a wonderful spread of such amazing dishes.
Can you feel it? That anxiousness and excitement where you’re so ready for Thanksgiving that you can’t even sleep, eat or focus at work?
Or wait, is that just me?
Ugh, I have the Monday blues. It doesn’t matter that this is a short work week - Mondays will always be Mondays. Although I am pretty freaking grateful that I have Thursday and Friday off. Now if only I can survive the grocery store tonight. I have some last minute things to pick up so I can make this stuffing with jalapeño cornbread.
There’s so many reasons why I look forward to Thanksgiving. Sure, it’s the gorgeous bird at the center of the table and the fig-glazed ham and the amazing Yorkshire pudding that Jason’s brother-in-law makes. It’s also the elastic waistband-type pants that I have to wear too because I eat way too much than I could actually handle. But the biggest reason that I look forward to this holiday is for the massive amount of leftovers.
Donuts make me happy. Like really happy. Especially when they’re lightened up and I can eat twice as much guilt-free.
Remember when I mentioned that I was a Dexter addict? Well, I started the series premiere like a month ago and now I am officially caught up to the current season. Amazing, right? Or is it just downright ridiculous that I’d lose sleep and personal hygiene over this show?
Happy Monday, everyone! I know, it’s a totally “ugh” kind of day since Mondays are the worst but I’m hoping I can make it a little better.
See, Gourmet Garden sent me a cooler of their herbs and spices to try out, packed into these clear squeezable tubes. There’s no added flavors or colors, they’re organic, they’re made with fresh Australian grown herbs, and they last in the fridge for 3 months! Best of all, you don’t even have to spend time chopping and dicing! I can’t even begin to tell you how much I hate peeling and mincing garlic. I always make a mess and the smell of garlic just gets embedded into my fingernails. Yeah, it’s the worst.
Thanksgiving is 1.5 weeks away and Christmas is right around the corner so the #SundaySupper team and I are bringing you holiday gifts from the kitchen. And what better way to say “Happy Holidays” than with a mason jar filled with all the ingredients to make homemade m&m cookies?
This week had completely dragged on for me. The highlight of this week was catching up on Grey’s Anatomy last night. The show has gotten progressively worse over the years but I still watch each and every new episode, even though some of the main characters don’t even show up half the time. Like where was Patrick Dempsey the entire episode? I’m also not too thrilled about the outcome of Mr. Feeny.
When Jason came to visit last weekend, I sent him off with some freezer-friendly meals and a batch of chicken pesto along with a loaf of bread. With his crazy school schedule, I know that he doesn’t have much time to cook and he’s even lost about 10 pounds in a semester so I always bug him about what he’s eaten.
Boy do I have a fun giveaway for you guys today! But first, let’s talk about food.
Ever since I started food blogging and cooking at home 95% of the time, I actually can’t handle certain restaurant-type foods. I just went to a dim sum lunch yesterday and as good as the food was, I actually began to feel nauseous the minute we left the restaurant. It wasn’t like I-have-food-poisoning-type-nausea but it was more like my body couldn’t handle all the greasiness I just devoured 10 minutes ago. It’s really amazing as to how your body gets used to all the clean eating from home.
The weather is finally cooling down in LA but I still leave the house with a thin long sleeve and start shivering as I walk to my car. I keep forgetting that winter does come by at some point here. But then again it’ll be 90 degrees tomorrow.
I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful Halloween! I went home straight from work, spent an hour in the worst traffic of my life (and I only live 12 miles away from work), took a long nap, and spent the rest of the night at the gym watching Dexter. I sure know how to party it up, right? At least some sort of blood splatter was involved.
