Alright people, the following information his crucial: THERE IS ZERO REASON TO BUY PRE-MADE SALAD DRESSING EVER. Reasons: Homemade tastes a million times better (that is an exact statistic...one million times better) Homemade is super easy to make Homemade is way healthier and has no refined sugar + preservatives + extra chemicals But most importantly, again, it really does taste so ...
How To: Basic Marinara
Everybody's gotta have a basic red sauce recipe in their back pocket. It's like THE easiest go-to dinner ever. I always, always have crushed tomatoes in my pantry, I always have onions, and I obvi always have garlic (garlic is life - peep the blog title, yo). And that's basically all you need for this! I personally prefer adding meat at the very beginning and making it a meaty red sauce, but we're ...
How To: Scrambled Eggs
I have spent most of my life disliking eggs. They were never something I hated, I just never ever EVER had them in my house unless it was for a recipe. I never woke up and thought "Hm, I can't wait to shove some scrambled eggs in my face for breakfast!" Honestly, I've never really been a big breakfast eater period. Until recently. There was a large chunk of time - several months - after I had ...
How To: Dice Veggies
Our second post in the new "How To" series: dicing veggies! Seems super basic, but I have had a surprising amount of people ask me questions about this, and I got multiple requests on Facebook for this "how to" when I was putting my feelers out for what people wanted me to post about! I'm not claiming that the dicing techniques shown in the video below are the technical ways you would be taught ...
How To: Roux (Plus 3 Uses)
This is the first post in a new "How To" series that is kicking off today! It's going to last about two weeks and five "How To's" all together, covering ultra basic cooking 101 things like this (roux), scrambled eggs, basic marinara, etc...I won't give them all away here 😉. This is for those of you out there who are either learning how to cook from the ground up, or are used to cooking, but don't ...
Top 15 of 2017
2017 - what a year. This year has been filled with a whirlwind of exciting, challenging, new, and wonderful memories and experiences. Between being pregnant for a large chunk of the year, having our first baby, my husband deploying when our son was seven weeks old, and quitting my teaching job to go full time with the blog, it has been one for the books! It will definitely go down as one of my ...
To the Tired Mommas
This past week was an exhausting one with my little man. Basically a combo of no sleep + lots and lots of fussing + needing to be bounced and swayed while walking around in order for calm to happen (aka I got a BOSS arm and leg workout 😉). We aren't totally sure what is going on yet, but his pediatrician thinks it sounds like acid reflux or a protein sensitivity - both potentially fixable, so ...
Back in Business!
OH MY GOSH. It's been years since we've chatted. Okay months, but it feels like years. This is the longest I've gone without blogging since I started! So let's sit down, grab a cup of coffee (preferably Pumpkin Spice since it is now September/Fall/the best time of year EVA), maybe a cookie or five, and catch up. The first and most glaringly important thing to update you on is our brand new, ...
Maternity Leave!
Hello friends! If you are followers of my blog, you will notice I've been MIA for the last few weeks. I was planning on starting my maternity leave this past Tuesday, but I ended up starting it a week early. Once I started getting cervical checks, my OB predicted that the baby would be here early based on how dilated and effaced I already was and because of how low the baby is. So I decided to ...
My Life in Pictures
I totes had a recipe to post today. A yummy and fun one, too. Buuttt I'm not feelin' the write-about-food thing today. I'm in a "let's talk about life and ramble about our daily happenings" zone right now. So here's the plan: I'm going to sum up my life lately in pictures that are currently in my phone's library. Let's see what happens....GO! First things first...pregnancy updates. Because ...