Monthly Archives: January 2013

Chocolate Chip Walnut Scones

What do you do when Downton Abbey is coming on, your apartment looks like a tornado has blown threw it (a tornado of moving boxes and tubs and messes) and you haven’t baked in weeks? Make scones. You bake some classically delicious scones made with yes, heavy cream, and sprinkle in some chocolate chips and […]

Burma Part 1: The Market

About a month ago, after about two days hopping from various airplanes, I returned to the U.S. from a 2-week trip to Burma with my mom. If you don’t know where Burma is, it’s in Southeast Asia and borders Thailand. Here’s the back story on my trip. For about the past year I have been […]

Simple Saturday: Sweet Potato Soup

I’m just going to cut to the chase. Do you like soup? Do you like healthy things that still feel indulgent? Do you like meals that stay good for days and are great to take to work? If you answered yes to all of these (or even if you didn’t), then you need to make […]

25th Birthday in Style

This past weekend, I turned 25! Wahoo! I decided that I wanted to have a family birthday as my main shindig, so I invited my sister and brother-in-law from Oklahoma City and my parents to join Jason and I for a party in Tulsa. Both of my sisters went to college in Tulsa and there […]

French 75 Cocktail

For our New Year’s gathering, my sister and I decided that we needed a signature cocktail or fun drink for the evening. It is the new year, after all. So, I began searching for a delicious drink that contained Champagne. And I stumbled upon the French 75. This is a drink that contains gin, Champagne, […]