With a fridge full of fresh ingredients that desperately needed to be used, a chilly fall afternoon, and a husband who wouldn’t be around for dinnertime, I knew soup was the perfect solution. I chopped and diced everything in sight and came up with a hearty, brothy, spicy, delicious soup that Kevin and I loved. […]
The One With the Reasons I Love Running
Since moving to our new town, I’ve been surrounded by runners. It’s a whole new experience for me because I’ve always been one of the only people I know who runs. I’ve never had friends nearby to talk to about running–the pros and cons, the strategies, the recovery, the competition. So I’m loving this. Poor […]
The One with a Grilling Plea
We love to grill. Ok, ok. My husband loves to grill. I love to eat things that have been grilled. Every time I try to use the grill, I almost burn my eyebrows right off my face. No joke. Just ask the teens we took camping this summer. I started that mini propane grill many times, and […]
Barbecue Chicken Pizza Recipe
With the most delicious Chicken Barbecue shredded and packaged in small portions in the freezer, I knew Barbecue Chicken Pizza was the Friday night pizza of choice! If you ever have leftover cooked chicken. I recommend shredded it or cutting it up and freezing it for use in other dishes. It makes life so deliciously […]
Double Chocolate Oreo Cookies Recipe
In an effort to make a good nearly-first impression our new group of teenagers, I wanted a WOW cookie–something that everyone would LOVE. Raisins, Peanut butter, and Oatmeal are all a bit polarizing, but I figured I couldn’t go wrong with Chocolate plus Oreos. These cookies came out oh-so-fudgy and delicious. My husband said, “These […]
The One with the Swollen Speech
You may remember my trip home (to my parents’ house that is) which I took on Monday in an effort to see my little sis’ one last time before she moves out West. It was a last minute plan–as in, I decided at 8am that I would leave by 10am–and I got to surprise Ash. […]
Cinnamon Streusal Muffins Recipe
It was late on a Friday night, but I had an inkling to bake something with the leftover buttermilk from the whole grain pancakes I had made that morning. I found a scrumptious sounding recipe on Baking Blonde’s website. With a few alterations to suit my taste, I came up with a fantastic muffin to […]
The One with a Teaching Bonus
Yet another Wednesday of piano lessons, and I still can’t get over how much I love teaching. For most of my life, people have been telling me I should be a teacher. I always begged to differ. I knew from a very young age that I wasn’t meant to daily instruct and wrangle a large group of […]
The One with Apples, Sisters, and Lists
Top Ten Really Super Awesome (to me) Things From These Last Few Days 1. getting my first “hey, will you pray for me?” text from one of our new teens. 2. returning to the Eccles family tradition of Sunday evening nachos. (Our nachos = layering your plate with tortilla chips, sprinkling liberally with green pepper, […]
Buttermilk Brown Butter Pancakes Recipe
It was a lazy kind of morning. We slept in, took our time getting ready. Glorious. It was getting late for breakfast and we had talked about going out for lunch. How about brunch we both thought. And so I set to work finding a brand new pancake recipe, while cooking up hashbrowns and bacon. I […]