***Thank you all again, for your votes for me on Project Food Blog! Voting ends on September 23!*** Back in high school, Lizz and I had a fairly out of control obsession with the song of the moment, as most high school girls do. However, this song wasn’t the “it” song by the cute boy [...]
Ok, I promise, this is the last birthday-related post since, well, my birthday was almost a week ago. On Saturday night, a group of my closest friends and family joined Adam and I at Gilt Bar, a new gastropub here in Chicago. I’d heard a few great things about it in recent months, but the [...]
Happy Wednesday all! Hope you’ve had a great day… I definitely did, and am quite exhausted. You’ll see exactly why in a minute! I’m glad to see you’ve all liked the return of Wednesday in Numbers, so I’ll keep with it for the next 8 weeks, if you don’t mind. 209: Campers in attendance today [...]
I can remember being in elementary school and very very rarely buying school lunch. Usually, I brought my nut butter (sometimes peanut, sometimes almond, sometimes cashew) with preserves (sometimes apricot, sometimes strawberry, NEVER grape) on whole wheat bread, fruit, and graham crackers most days. There were, however, the occasional school lunch days when I just [...]
I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day, whatever it was that you did with your day I spent much of the morning relaxing and baking bread for my mom’s barbecue this afternoon. I ended up making two types of bread since I thought the first didn’t come out well…but I was wrong! Type [...]
Well, I spent today roasting in my classroom. (No windows + 2 fans = stuffy classroom!) I spent my commute home roasting in my car. (Car A/C + stuck in traffic in the sun = not so cool) I spent my early evening roasting… food! We’re still trying to figure out what’s up with our [...]