My New Year’s Resolution (Week 1)
New Year’s resolutions are tough. For most of the things that I’d like to improve or accomplish, success or failure...
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Why is Bacon so Damn Trendy?
Bacon seems to be everywhere you look these days! It has comfortably made its way from the breakfast and club...
Christmas goodies and pondering domesticity
While home for Thanksgiving I read this Washington Post article The New domesticity: Fun, empowering or a step back for American women? In it, the author is examining the booming Do-It-Yourself...
Pre-New Years Resolution Curried Chicken Pot Pie
So I’ve already started my New Years resolution. Is it cheating to have a resolution you’re excited to start? I don’t think so. You don’t get to know what it...
Honeymoon, Culinary Edition: Eating our way through Bali and the Gilis Islands.
So we’ve been back from Bali for over a month, and I have yet to post the promised ‘Honeymoon Edition...
Memories From Italia
The summer after I graduated from college Courtney and I spent a few weeks backpacking through Italy and Greece. We...
A Festive Feast for a Wintery Night: Salmon Pot Pie, Green Beans and Apple Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
We got our tree this weekend! We had very high intentions to drive to Chantilly, venture into the woods, and cut down our own tree. Romantic, right? Then, as we...
Honeymoon Part IV: Hopping Around the Gili Islands
Having thoroughly enjoyed the cultural and physically active adventures that Bali has to offer, we are off to four days of solitude and relaxation on the Gili Islands. The Gilis...
“I don’t want to go shopping” Salted Shortbread Cookies
So Friday night I was waiting for Courtney to get home from his business trip, and I felt like baking...
Honeymoon Part III: Seminyak and South Bali
As much as we appreciated the opportunity to experience what Bali is really all about, by morning we were ready...
Honeymoon Part II: Trekking our way into the ‘real’ Bali, Tirta Gangga and beyond
Although we’d come to terms with the fact that we wouldn’t be able to climb Mount Agung, we couldn’t seem to shake the desire to climb something, so we decided...
Honeymoon Part 1: Ubud Edition
I’ve been having a hard time getting back into the swing of my blog. It could be the jet lag…we’ve...
Balinese Living
Today we must give up our private villa for a $20/night home stay (albeit my attempt to extend our stay...
Greetings from Ubud!
We safely arrived in paradise at about 2 AM. The flight was atrocious but our villa made up for it in a matter of seconds (during which we walked around...
A Brief Explanation of my Absence
I would imagine that a career blogger’s challenge must be to balance blogging and doing the things worth blogging about. I personally, have found myself so busy doing things that...