
Last night I fell asleep at 7 pm! Talk about needing to recover from the weekend and a looong Monday. Last night I really wanted a quick and simple dinner to make (and then promptly fall asleep)…so I found some pasta to boil and fresh pesto! This is a pretty basic pesto recipe, which I… [read more]

I love spicy salsas. Not fruity ones. When I first heard about this salsa I was skeptical. Every fruit salsa I had ever tried was just that, fruity. But, wow, was I surprised! This salsa is tangy and spicy with undertones of peach to balance the flavor. Nice and fresh, I modified this recipe to… [read more]

When my husband and I first started dating, we quickly discovered that we both enjoyed taking nice long walks together. Unfortunately, we also started dating in the middle of a very cold and frigid winter. So…what did we do? We began frequenting the many walkways that make up Crown Center settled in downtown Kansas City!… [read more]

With Autumn quickly approaching, I have been really wanting to try out canning or making some jams for the winter months. The problem is…I’ve never done it before! So, as I have been doing my research for canning and jamming techniques, I have come across some wonderful recipes and some good resources. So, here they… [read more]

For my birthday this year, I was given a cookbook with 100 different kinds of muffins. The recipes ranged from double chocolate to cheesy bacon and everything in between. That was 6 months ago. I have kept this cookbook in my kitchen and every morning I wake up and make breakfast and whisk right by… [read more]

I just realized that my Microsoft Word does not have Helvetica as a font. The most overly used font in the world and my version of Word has omitted it from its font choices. There may be a good reason. Perhaps Microsoft has to pay lots of money to someone to use such a font…. [read more]