As promised, I combined whiskey and popcorn. You’re welcome. Ever since I learned how easy it is to make your own microwave popcorn, I’ve been on a huge popcorn kick. It only seemed natural to make caramel corn as Christmas gifts to give out to family and friends. I made a S’mores version for the […]
By now everyone knows I obsessively love peaches. Between the peach cobblers, peach muffins, peach jam…I could honestly eat all peach everything and never get tired of it. So when we stopped at an adorable farmer’s market in Tuscaloosa and they had fresh peaches (and again last weekend at one in Little Rock…seriously, farmers markets are […]
My name is Stephanie and I have a problem. I buy things in season in bulk, then freeze them…and then never use them. And now my freezer is FULL! Between hatch green chiles, rhubarb, huckleberries, zucchini, homemade pesto and brown bananas I have no room left. None! I have to do something. We are also […]
Any time we told people we were stopping in Brussels on our trip they would almost always ask “why?”. To be honest, we didn’t really have a reason other than it is about halfway between Paris and Amsterdam and would give us another country to check off the list. So we booked the cutest AirBnb […]
Wedding planning is in full swing here at LDB (let’s be real, we’re almost in panic mode) and I wanted to share some of our projects! Kelly is amazing and designed both our Save The Dates and Invitations. It was so nice to be able to bounce ideas off her, make a million little changes and […]
Let’s get this out in the open: I love wine. We always have wine in the house and I don’t believe it needs a special occasion to be opened. I have an overflowing shelf of corks, just waiting for a craft night. My family constantly posts wine related things on my facebook page (a sink faucet […]
I remember when I was in high school and my sister, cousin and I had these massive all-day movie marathons. We would go to Blockbuster or Hollywood Video (I swear we aren’t that old…) and rent about 5 movies and just lounge in our pajamas all day and eat. Now that I am an adult […]
Pop quiz time: which two states grow the most garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas)? Answer: Idaho and Washington. The Palouse region, to be specific. Which, fun fact, is where I grew up! When Mom gave me a bag of dried garbanzo beans grown in my hometown of Colfax, I knew I needed to make something delicious […]
Remember that time I had a bunch of fresh homegrown California lemons? Well…I still have them. So get ready for even more lemon desserts! I kind of forgot panna cotta existed. That is until Liz at Floating Kitchen made some a few weeks ago and I suddenly remembered how delicious this dessert is. If you’ve […]
Well, I did it. I took the plunge into the online dating pool. 2015 is my year… on second thought, maybe not. I decided late last year, after a few nudges from friends and family, that I would start online dating in 2015. I would return from wonderful, amazing, beautiful Ireland and sign up for […]
I ate Brown Bread every morning I was in Ireland. Every. Morning. And I miss it! I had never had Brown Bread before I went to Ireland. I feel like brown bread just doesn’t sound that appealing and from pictures, I just wasn’t feeling it. Boy was I wrong! Brown Bread is a traditional Irish […]
Ya, try and say that five times fast. Sorry for the long name but it perfectly explains what these cookies are and what’s in them. We’ve got all the good stuff: chocolate, chocolate chips, and cookie butter. What could be better?! Trader Joe’s is one of my favorite stores. I walk in and automatically feel […]
Have I mentioned I’m sad the holidays are over? If not, you could come over and see my decorations still up. I have to take them down in phases or else I think I would go into some soft of post-Christmas-depression. To keep the holiday feel going, I remade a drink my family had at […]
Well, the holidays are officially over. And I’m pretty upset about it. We didn’t get a white Christmas (yet drove 6 hours through the snow…), I had to defrost my car from freezing rain yesterday, and to make matters worse? No more holiday Starbucks cups. The one bright spot that came this weekend was some fresh […]
