As I mentioned yesterday, D and I started this new diet that minimizes our intake of processed carbs and sugar. Since starting the diet it has been a unique challenge {I use challenge in a good way} to find snacks and meals that are lighter on the carbs and [...]

Surprises have been popping up all over the place. After a great weekend at home seeing family and friends it was so delightful to wake up and find that our already long weekend turned into an even longer one. Lil man is having a blast [...]

I love donuts. I would say that sentence perfect defines how I feel about those heavenly rings of deliciousness, so perfect, simple, and scrumptious! Although, I have learned as I get older it is harder to hide my love of donuts since [...]

This past weekend D and I had some close friends over for a National Margarita Day Celebration dinner. If there is any excuse to eat fajitas and drink margaritas I am happy to fully participate in the celebrating! The margarita I chose [...]

This Thursday I will have spent 5 Valentine’s days in Harrisonburg so I thought I would share a few of my favorite romantic hideaways around town. I think there are many cozy places to take your special someone but I wanted to let you in on some smaller lesser known places.

New Leaf Pastry Kitchen

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I wish I could summon up some childhood nostalgia attached to drinking hot chocolate on school days that got cancelled but I was never a huge fan of the drink when I was young. Actually, the first time I started to like it was when I [...]

I have been a huge fan of pie lately and decided to make a blackberry pie for the Girls season 2 premiere a couple weekends ago. Not only did I have to resist eating all the blackberries before the [...]

Outstanding in the Field was started in 1998 by artist and chef Jim Denevan. Jim enjoyed gathering local farmers and food producers in the Santa Cruz area to attend farmer dinner where they would dine with restaurant regulars and explain [...]

This week has been super hectic and I am so behind on 3 blog posts I meant to post this past week. To make up for that fact I thought I would post a Saturday post.  For those of you who are spending your weekend in the library studying for finals [...]