for the love of creating
well, holy cow, blog, it has been a good long while! things have been a tad bit busy around here… the most wonderful, exhausting and rewarding kind of busy. meet ben! beautiful baby, you’re sweeter than strawberry pie! every day is a deeper shade of blue, …
cravings are in full swing for this pregnant lady. it started with anything peach, and then pickles, then to watermelon sorbet, then vernors, cream soda and my current craving is zucchini. i was telling my mom about my cravings and she said, just plain zucchini?? …
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 …
when i first tried my aunt’s cheesecake, it was love at first bite. my aunt and i share the same chocolaty sweet tooth, so it was not a huge surprise that this cheesecake is pure awesomeness. i cannot even begin to describe how perfect this …
thanksgiving week is upon us! tom and i have a lot to be thankful for; we have been very blessed in this crazy whirlwind of a year. this thursday, we’ll be thinking of our family in michigan and most definitely missing them. tradition is something …
well, hello again, blog! i’m happy to report that things are back to “normal” at the shoebox. it was hacked a month or so ago, and we’ve been working on moving content around and finding a suitable server. (hello, godaddy!) the shoebox is back with …
ok, i’m taking a break from catching up on old recipes. you need to make this delicious dessert before summer is officially gone tomorrow! it’s a dark chocolate ganache pie, topped with marshmallows. stick with the dark chocolate, it balances out the sweetness. it is …
wow. what a whirlwind we’ve been through since may. we packed up everything and moved across the country. (when i say across, i really do mean it! hello, pacific northwest!) it is nice to finally be settled and back into the “groove” of things. and …
we love to order chinese food from corner asian cafe, a restaurant just down the road. they always give us a ton of delicious food, which makes for at least two meals. i always order white rice to go with my mu shu chicken and …
i had a hankering for oreos. and cupcakes. enter these dandies. they’re wonderfully moist and have oreos busting out of them at the seams. not that cupcake liners have seams, but you can catch my drift. 🙂 i was able to fill the cupcakes using …