Month: January 2012

pot pie

pot pie

we have finally found our favorite b’ham restaurant.  it sure did take a while.  the archer ale house is an english style pub house, in the basement of an old fairhaven building.  the food reminds us of one of our nashville favorites: the flying saucer. 

salted caramel sauce

salted caramel sauce

we’re snowed in.  and i LOVE every second of it.  we’ve both been working from home, which is awesome.  not any different for me, but it is very nice to have tom around!  we’ve also been loving on our new puppy, lucy… and so now 

pizza rolls

pizza rolls

the super bowl is just around the corner, and these definitely need to find a spot on your spread.  they’re basically a dinner roll, made with pizza dough and filled with cheese and pepperoni.  i tried a new pizza dough recipe for this, and the 

recent failures

recent failures

there are a lot of things from my kitchen that are never shown on this blog.  some nights, we have digorno pizza.  or freezer chimichangas… pronounced chim-ee-chang-guhs, cause the freezer section makes me feel classy like that.  or hot dogs and kraft macaroni and cheese. 

peach whiskey bbq chicken

peach whiskey bbq chicken

this dish is very simple to throw together, but tastes like it took all day.  it is another dish that i have made a few times before blogging about it.  the most recent time, i used my new favorite kitchen “thing”… my dutch oven. swoon! 

chex mix

chex mix

christmas time is definitely a time of year for an excessive amount of sweets.  if you’re like me, you usually need a salty snack to immediately counteract a sweet snack, or vice versa.   chex mix does the trick, every time.  make a large batch