My second Daring Baker’s challenge is now complete! Well, I actually did it last weekend and served it for Easter dessert, but we were not allowed to post it until today. Yay! Finally, I can share with you this yummy cake recipe! As I have browsed many other foodie’s blogs, I noticed a few that [...]

Two weeks ago when my in-laws were in town, I made the panini’s for a quick lunch before we headed to Madison. At the end of the weekend (after they went home) we had some leftover ham and cheese slices, so I made us some turnovers. It was nice to have a quick and easy [...]

Ben emailed me at work today and told me he invited friends over for dinner. Good thing I had my meal plan organized for the week! Even though I was planning on eating leftovers tonight and having this meal tomorrow, I’m extremely glad we made it tonight and had friends here to share this delicious [...]

Happy Easter! Winter may be over, and Easter has passed, but we still have winter weather here in Chicago. Today was actually warmer (Ben and I were able to run outside) but the rest of the week will be cold again.This winter I participated in a gift exchange with the What’s Cooking group from The [...]

To my ecstatic surprise, last week I received BlakeMakes‘ latest giveaway in the mail…TCHO Chocolate! It was a surprise not because I didn’t know about the giveaway (trust me, I’m borderline stalker when it comes to Blake’s giveaways) but because he announced only the first 40 commenters on his blog would receive the chocolate, and [...]