italian turkey + quinoa stuffed red peppers
Last month, because she is the absolute best of moms, Jan sent A and I back to Chicago after a long weekend at the Lake House with a fridge worth of fresh produce. Other than a pomelo fruit (new...
View ArticleSNL does Scandal.
Any Scandal fans in the house? After claiming that I couldn’t stomach Olivia Pope after the first two episodes, I became uncontrollably hooked at some point mid-Season 1. When A went to the lake house...
View Articleslainte!
After neglecting true St. Patrick’s Day shenanigans for the past few years, I made the executive call to indulge in at least one green beer at a local Irish establishment. Finn’s in East Lakeview,...
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If there ever was a magician that specialized in the blogging disappearing act… But with a good reason. Or two. Or to be honest, what feels like a hovering nebulous cumulonimbus cloud that could...
View Articlemore later, but THIS for now!
So much more on this later. But for now, this: On Sunday we gave this little guy a forever home! A 1 yr old Miniature Pinscher rescue from Pet Project shelter in Marseilles, IL, his jam is playing...
View Articlespiffin’ up this kitchen: a dry goods bookshelf
consider this the sequal to “fixin’ this kitchen: an arctic ice backsplash”. i’ve been meaning to do a specific post our now-not-so-new dry goods bookshelf for, oh five months now. you may recognize...
View Articlewe got a pup, which is to say…
that we have been chasing this dude around and about for the past 3 weeks, and that explanation of how this little man came into our lives has had to wait. In fact, it still has to wait – maybe this...
View Articlethe tales of sir astor [at his very own tumblr]
I tried to write a short essay about why I’ve been gone (so long that someone actually solicited me to buy my domain) but since I’ve been away from writing so long, it came out looking like something...
View Articlea mid-summer update
It’s a been a while. Turns out summer goes fast. While I’ve been away from this little corner of the internet, we’ve been a whole lot of places. This summer is a Carmen San Diego of sorts – where in...
View Articlein the name of post-race brunching and chocolate.
After too much wine at dinner one Friday in early September, three friends made a pact to wake at the crack of dawn, or rather before that, for Chicago’s annual Hot Chocolate 5k race. Said race has a...
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