Smoky Bacon Mac Experiment

You know that new macaroni and cheese cookbook that I bought right before I decided I needed to be eating healthier food?  Well, I couldn’t take it anymore.  Scott and I dove in with our first recipe from it the other day–Smoky Bacon Mac.  Sounds healthy, right? Wrong.  Cheese and pasta and milk and more…

More Puppy Gang, (Plus!) Anniversary, (And!) Waldorf Salad

It’s been busy around these parts since the last post.  First, we had some family guests on Friday night–our very first guests at the new house.  There are definitely still piles of stuff that aren’t where they should be, but all in all, I think the house worked just fine.  That was nice to see….

Peachy Keen

It’s summer, and in our house, that has come to mean peach season.  I wasn’t ever much of a peach fan growing up, but it turns out that summer would be incomplete to my husband without dozens and dozens of peaches.   Last week, we ended up at our favorite homemade peach ice cream spot…

Strawberry Salsa-ish Chicken

I’m just going to write about food a lot.  Let’s face it, I think about food a lot, so that makes sense. Today’s food excitement was a carry-over from yesterday.  I mentioned a recipe that I love a week or so ago, Scott not so subtly hinted that I should make that sometime soon, and…