recipes

Yes, it’s true… Restaurant Week is coming to Nashville this summer and the countdown is on!! For those of you bloggers who don’t know what Restaurant week is, it’s a celebration of food in the City and select restaurants throughout Nashville offer discounted 3-course dinners for either $20.09 or $30.09 (depending on the specific locale […]

I’m not sure if it’s the slowing economy or my desire to save money for all these upcoming travels I’m venturing on, but lately, I have been cooking up some very tasty dishes (if I do say so myself) – I have to admit that most of my “home cooking” stems from recipes I find […]

I don’t know about you, but after I get home from a vacation, the first thing I like to do (after getting lots of sleep) is to make a home-cooked dinner… don’t get me wrong, I love eating out, but since we were out in California for 5 days this past weekend and ate NON-STOP […]

In the simplest words possible, I’m a die-hard meatatarian (if that word even exists). Since I was little, I have pretty much despised all things that had to do with veggies other than corn and a few others- mushrooms, cucumbers, and carrots, and when I did eat them I only ate them fresh, meaning I […]

Every month at work, we have a designated “Birthday Breakfast/Lunch” and usually we try to come up with creative ideas so we aren’t constantly eating the same things… for example, last year for July we did ice cream sundaes, in October we have a chili cook-off and have prizes for winners, and for December we […]

As much as I am a true “nester” when it comes to my living quarters, I am overly-obsessed with The Nest website. Now I may not be logged on The Knot (soon-to-be brides) or The Bump (soon-to-be-mothers), but for single (not engaged or married) girls like me, this is just as addictive. The Nest is […]

Since I like to bake more than say “cook”, this Thanksgiving I was assigned by my lovely mother to bring a dessert to the big family celebration… wanting to think out of the box and prepare something that wasn’t necessarily a seasonal/holiday dessert, I decided to try my very 1st pineapple upside down cake. Leave […]