We hosted dessert night for our fellow Mormon business school students and their families. It was inspired by dessert nights we used to have with some of the Mormons families at Company X, and it was awesome. Something like 10 couples and 12 kids all in our apartment living room at one time. Toys were [...]

Up until a few weeks ago, I had never made my own applesauce. I think I placed it on a pedestal next to canning. Lots of work, lots of dishes, not worth it. Then my favorite blogger, Skip, mentioned that Martha Stewart has his recipe on her website. I clicked over, and it has two [...]

I don’t think I talked about how the first (successful) cooking club night went? After my first attempt where nobody showed up, we ended up with one married couple, and four women other than myself in attendance. I showed them how to make kale chips, the green smoothie you see below, and carrot ginger soup [...]

It’s Thanksgiving menu planning time! We’re hosting another couple with one baby the same age as ours, and I’m thinking I’ll contribute the following: Spinach, cranberry, walnut, goat cheese salad Focaccia Butternut squash lasagna Green beans Apple pie crisp My friend is going to take care of some of the more traditional stuff like mashed [...]

As I am attempting to write like 20 posts in an hour, most of these are going to be me cleaning out my “Future That Wife Posts” folder in my gmail account. Sort of like a Brain Dump, but with only one link per day. I’m almost done with the Omnivore’s Dilemma, and now I [...]