I wake up early and breathe in damp morning air through the open bedroom window. The sun is up, speckling leaves with a cool pale light as I lace up my Addidas for a quiet run. The air has a chilly bite that feels invigorating, but it's obvious that the sun will rapidly heat the earth today. I end my run, breathing deeply and wiping sweat from my eyes. A cup of coffee and a breakfast of fruit and toast occupies the next 30 minutes of my day, perhaps while reading the latest M

About time I made a pie, amiright?! I got the idea for this one from a book I got on sale at Joseph Beth called United States of Pie. Naturally, I flipped directly to the "Midwest" section to find out which pie was assigned to Ohio. To my surprise and confusion, it was Shaker Lemon Pie, which I have never eaten before in my life or even seen on a menu in any restaurant. "This must be a mistake!" I thought, "I live in Ohio my whole life and have never heard of our supposed sta

Has anyone else ever been plagued by a surplus of hamburger and hot dog buns? What is up with that?! I feel like I'm in a perpetual state of extra buns. And then they get stale and crunchy and you're like, "ehw. I'm not tryna eat a burger on that no mo." And then you throw them out and next time you want to grill out you buy more buns and the cycle continues. Enter my mom's secret for seriously awesome french toast: use dem buns. I know it sounds a little weird, but store ma

Sweet potato is a food group, right? I'll have to ask Michelle Obama, but I'm pretty sure it is. Not quite a vegetable, not a quite a starch, but perfectly perfect in it's own starchy vegetable-y way. I usually eat one sweet potato a week, which fulfills the myplate requirement for sweet potatoes (again, I'll have to double check with the first lady, but I'm pretty sure this is accurate). This recipe was inspired by one of my closest friends who has a few dietary restriction

Hey ladiiieeeeessss!! Woop Woop!! Party over here, party over there! Party everywhere! But mostly Charleston, SC, where I spent Memorial Day weekend celebrating my main lady Chelsea's bach-e-loR-ETTE PARTY WOOOOOOO!!!! Tropical Depression Bonnie tried pretty hard to kill our vibe but failed miserably so HA. We spent most of our time laughing and eating, with a little bit of dancing and singing thrown in there. Sunday ended up being a really great day to get out and see the ci