by Mary Carver | May 22, 2011 | recipes & food
I love Cherry Coke, but I don’t like actual cherries. I also can’t stand cherry-flavored candy. Give me a cherry Starburst, and I will gag. True story. Knowing this, it should come as no surprise that even though I don’t necessarily love sticky,...
by Mary Carver | May 16, 2011 | Giving Up on Perfect, Home Life, recipes & food
After a week of attempting to eat low-carb, I can safely say I LOVE CARBS. Okay, I know: big surprise. What I’ve actually learned is that it is possible – and not as difficult as I first thought – to eat well without carbs. Not that I’ve done...
by Mary Carver | May 9, 2011 | Giving Up on Perfect, Home Life, recipes & food
A couple weeks ago I decided to make chocolate chip pumpkin bread. It’s really a winter-y food, but it’s also a tasty one, so we tracked down a can of pumpkin and got to cooking. Every other time we made the bread, I used regular chocolate chips, but this...
by Mary Carver | May 4, 2011 | Giving Up on Perfect, Home Life, recipes & food
Last night, after reuniting with my sadly neglected treadmill, I sat down to write down everything I ate during the day. Nothing about that statement is typical, of course. What is typical? The fact that I ate a burrito for every meal. Okay, I don’t normally eat...
by Mary Carver | May 2, 2011 | Giving Up on Perfect, Home Life, recipes & food
I know that, this being a Mexican dish, it would make more sense to say “part dos.” But while three years (high school) and three semesters (college) of French classes didn’t exactly leave me fluent en francais, it does mean that out of the foreign...
by Mary Carver | Apr 25, 2011 | Giving Up on Perfect, Home Life, recipes & food
Easter was late this year, but somehow, it snuck up on me anyway. As I entered Holy Week, I hadn’t organized a single Easter craft for Annalyn, figured out what to wear on Easter Sunday, bought more than one CD for Annalyn’s Easter basket or asked my mom...
