Category Archives: Cooking

Mini Vacation With Friends

April 6, 2012

Yes I’m still posting about Dallas! I just took too many pictures to write one post. We got to visit with our friends in Dallas and I think they are just so wonderful. We stayed with them for a couple of nights and we all got to have a mini vacation. We did some exploring, a little bit of shopping (5 new books from half price books), finally got to eat at an In-N-Out (I love that their fries are hand cut-yum), I got to play with their super cute dogs (love their little faces), and have lots of laughs with friends. They are the best hosts!

Wine Outing

March 29, 2012

Over the weekend my coworker and her husband took Walker and I and another coworker on a wine tour in the Texas Hill Country. We ended up with a beautiful day and very pleasant weather. We tasted wine at a couple of wineries before spending a bit longer at the third enjoying the picnic lunch we packed. It was full of delicious cheese, meats, bread, and fruit. It was so good! After the wineries they invited us to their home and cooked us all dinner and we ended the evening searching for constellations in the night sky (they live a bit out of town so you can actually see the stars). We had such a great day with wonderful people.

Edible Flowers

March 26, 2012

The other day I was feeling a bit gloomy, nothing too serious, I was just having a moment. I needed a few things at the grocery store and since I was feeling funky I wanted to get myself something special. This usually manifests itself into something sweet and/or chocolatey but this time I wanted to reverse my habit and focus on some healthy things to uplift my spirits. I was thinking salad stuff and while I was looking at the produce my eyes landed on this box of beauties. Edible flowers?! Oh heck yeah! I snatched them up and was very pleased indeed. They played a huge role in lifting my mood and look how pretty they are in a salad! Love it!