Today is the beginning of Restaurant Week in Kansas City. What is restaurant week? Well I got this neat card in the mail telling me all about it. Kansas City Restaurant Week is a city-wide event to raise money for Harvesters. A lot of restaurants will be offering a multi-course lunch and dinner menu for… Continue reading KC Restaurant Week!
Naan
Yesterday I posted about the Chickpea Curry we made last last Sunday and today I'm posting about the Naan we made to go with it. I'm super excited to post this recipe because it was really fun to make and turned out really, really good! Naan is a type of flat bread. We've made it… Continue reading Naan
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Chickpea Curry
So last Sunday we decided to make Indian food for dinner. We hadn't had Indian food in forever and it sounded really good. I found what looked like an easy recipe for Chickpea Curry on All Recipes. Chickpea Curry Serves 4 4 medium potatoes, cubed 2 tablespoons canola oil 1 medium yellow onion, diced 1… Continue reading Chickpea Curry
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Kale & White Bean Soup
I came across this recipe in my January issue of Real Simple (which I am a little behind in reading). I was intrigued because of the kale. I didn't think I'd ever had kale before and wanted to try it out. Here's how we made it this past week for dinner. Kale & White Bean… Continue reading Kale & White Bean Soup
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Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
When I first saw this recipe in The Kind Diet, I thought "Hmm this looks good but I bet it's a pain in the rear to make" and skipped right on by. I came back to it later when it was time to do some Christmas baking and decided to take a stab at it.… Continue reading Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
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Sicilian Collard Greens
For the past few months I've been been experimenting with vegan cooking. I find it really interesting and challenging to cook in a different way than what I'm used to. In November I bought Alicia Silverstone's new book The Kind Diet. The book has a lot of useful information on a vegan diet and lots… Continue reading Sicilian Collard Greens
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B.Y.O.B Popcorn
Bring Your Own Beer Popcorn...? Nope it's Bring Your Own Bowl for free popcorn! On Tuesdays Dickinson Theatres have a great special - all tickets all day long are $5 each and if you bring your own bowl they will fill it up with popcorn for free. And give you free refills as many times… Continue reading B.Y.O.B Popcorn
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Pumpkin French Toast
This year my company gave us Christmas Eve as a holiday. My husband also had the day off too. We decided to spend the day at home playing games, relaxing and just spending time together. We are lucky to have lots of family gatherings around the holidays so we knew that the entire Christmas weekend… Continue reading Pumpkin French Toast
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So. Much. Snow.
When I woke up this morning the outside temperature was 4 degrees F, with a wind chill that makes it feel like -8 degrees F. On top of that I also forgot to turn my alarm off last night so it woke me up at 5:45am on a Saturday! I tried to go back to… Continue reading So. Much. Snow.
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Garden 2009: Successes!
So since I completely abandoned my blog last year, I didn't post anything about my second year of gardening. I had so much fun with my first garden that I had to do a second garden. Browse through the 2008 posts in the spring and summer months if you want to read about my first… Continue reading Garden 2009: Successes!
Everything Is Homemade 