Yep! I’m back in the Midwest. In this post, I detail my current projects and what I’ve been cooking lately.

I’ve been quiet these last few months because life has been a little mundane lately. We’re going through a lot of transitions at work, not all of them good. The last six months have, on a number of levels, mostly just been about holding on and keeping things going. It was tiresome enough to live [...]

My weekdays tend to be a little unpredictable so I try to take the time to experiment in the kitchen on the weekends. Two weekends ago, it was African Chicken in Peanut Sauce, a recipe I found on CookEatShare. SO good! I would up shredding the chicken and mixing it all up with the couscous [...]

Once again… I bombed out on a project. Project 365 just didn’t work out. I had a stretch of a few weeks when I just couldn’t get it done. Kind of a bummer but I do have some good news to balance it out. With regards to my Resolutions, I am 100% on the wagon! [...]

I sometimes suffer from kitchen apathy when cooking for myself so I’ve started Cookbook Dipping. I pick a random cookbook and a random recipe from it. I think this will be a great way to try recipes I might have otherwise overlooked. This week… The Barefoot Contessa’s Fresh Corn Salad!

While I was visiting the parents, my mother made a meal that I’m sure I’ll be making for myself soon… an at home version of gryos. The following recipe is made in loaf form. I will be trying this out in my twinkie pan, for smaller individual portions. The smaller loaves I’ll wrap up and [...]