My original plan for Valentine's Day dinner was a pretty exotic one. When we lived in Palo Alto, we used to go to this Italian restaurant and Cliff always ordered a dish with squid ink in it (yes, it was black). It didn't make the dish overly fishy, I think the ink was used just … [Read more...] about Valentine’s Dinner
recipes
Peanut Butter Banana Ice Cream
Since the weather has turned around here in the Big D (71 today!), I decided to whip up some homemade ice cream! It might be a little premature (I'm sure it's not quite Spring yet), but it's fun to pretend. This was my first experience with the ice cream maker too. We got a … [Read more...] about Peanut Butter Banana Ice Cream
French Toast with Grilled Bananas
Since it's Saturday, I was craving some serious brunch food. Since we're currently broke, I decided to cook those brunch favorites myself. On the menu for this morning: french toast! I've said this before...but I love breakfast foods. Any breakfast food. French toast is pretty … [Read more...] about French Toast with Grilled Bananas
Green Machine
Finally, I successfully made a smoothie that turned out green! Usually, they turn out a beautiful brown color or purple-ish brown. Either way a very unattractive, dirt color. Yesterday, I finally figured it out! I kept the spinach and omitted the frozen strawberries. It actually … [Read more...] about Green Machine
Review: Chocolate Chunk Luna Bar
I received a lovely package the other day from the good folks at Luna Bar. It was filled with 4 new flavors of the bars-2 of the regular, 2 of their protein bars. Yesterday, I tore into my first one: the chocolate chunk bar. I like Luna Bars for a couple different reasons. … [Read more...] about Review: Chocolate Chunk Luna Bar