Carrot Cake Granola {Leftovers Club}
If you’ve been wondering why I never shared the recipe for the delicious carrot cake granola I served as the...
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Syria: Ma’amoul
Ma’amoul are semolina shortbread cookies popular across the Middle East. They are filled with either dates or nuts – commonly...
An Unbelievable 10 Years in Washington D.C.
It’s damn near impossible for me to believe that today marks my 10 year anniversary in Washington D.C. On the...
This is What’s Up Doc: Vegan Carrot Soup with Toasted Chickpeas and Tahini Crema
I am definitely a sucker for soup with fancy condiments. In fact, writing this post just reminded me that it’s...
A Taste of Savannah
Although there are still plenty of things I should be doing to prepare for the wedding, I think one of my priority projects needs to be finding an excuse for...
Spain Part II, Beautiful Faces: Lovely Strangers & other Candid Moments
It’s no secret that I like to take pictures of food (I can imagine my poor children asking someday “Mommy, why are you taking another picture of your hamburger? Don’t...
Cheeseburgers in Paradise
Okay so my title is a bit misleading. But I’ve always been bad at titles, and “feta stuffed turkey burgers and salmon dill burgers in my miniature townhouse apartment” doesn’t...
To Fathers.
To have a strong, loving and supportive father figure in your life is to be truly fortunate. I’m not quite sure of the appropriate word for my having three....
Spain Part I, Beautiful Places: Landscape & Landmarks
Some shots from said stroll through the countryside: From our hike in El Bosque From a windy day in Ronda: From our wonderful stay in Seville:
Meet my new (messy) kitchen!
We some how pulled it off. At 5am last Wednesday (after staying up until 1:00 enjoying an unbeatable birthday meal of an amazing paella, white wine sangria, homemade honey vanilla...
Farewell Pink Palace, you treated me well!
So my time in the Pink Palace is officially up. After a quick pit stop in Spain, it’s time to move on and join Courtney and Lila in our next...
Moving Day, Part 1
So graduation is over and we have two big moves to in the next month! The first is moving Courtney out of his $500 a month mansion in Blacksburg and up...
I’ve never been good with equations, but I know that Love > Distance
I still remember the day that Courtney found out he had gotten into Virginia Tech. It was 2007, just around this time of year. I made us a nice dinner...
To Mothers.
Even if you didn’t know me, which I think that everyone who visits my blog does, it wouldn’t take you five minutes of reading to figure out that I’m really...
April in Review
You know what’s wrong with these ‘in review’ posts? How aware they make me of where the time goes. As in, it makes me a little too aware. Well, April...