Coastal Cleanup is tomorrow. 8am. Be there or be my bitch. If you would like to know what happens when one becomes my bitch, see the clip below.
See you tomorrow!
Ya’ll. Guys. Nerds. I enter every fashion blogger giveaway imaginable. But I never win. Ever. Until now!!!
Thanks to the hilarious and beautiful Kendi Everyday and Talbots, I won a free pair of jeans! I think I’ll go with these:
Or maybe these:
Which would you pick?
Three years of goofy, crazy, mad love.
Its been glorious.
Happy Anniversary to The Hubs.
Thank you for putting up with me for three years…
…and for promising to do just that for the rest of your life.
I love you.
You asked for it (Amy and Joy), so here it is! My strawberry bread recipe. This is one of the easiest and quickest things to put together. Please enjoy.
Strawberry Bread
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup smashed strawberries, fresh and very ripe
1 egg
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup canola oil
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Prepare one loaf pan.
Combine the first four ingredients in a large mixing bowl and whisk together. In another medium sized mixing bowl, add the smashed strawberries, egg, sugar, canola oil and vanilla.
Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the strawberry mixture. Quickly fold the wet and dry mixtures together just until all the flour is moistened. Do not overmix.
Pour into loaf pan and bake for 45-50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Mind if I overload you with a ton of pictures from my Saturday night? No? You’re rad. Thanks a lot.
First of all, The Hubs thought it was absolutely hilarious that I carried an uncovered pie through downtown Mobile. He couldn’t understand the fact that saran wrap would damage the beautiful-ness of it. He felt the need to snap a pic. Bless him.
Meet T. T and his wife A have recently moved here and wanted to cook us a serious Texan dinner. I think they succeeded.
Group picture! Cheesy, yes. But totally worth it.
We spent much of the evening spying on Shooter Jennings’ tour bus from the window of their downtown condo.
And the rest of the evening was spent drinking Texan beer and eating tons of big, yummy, food.
After our appetizer of Texas Caviar and homemade guacamole, we were served a delicious meal which included barbeque pulled pork over Texas toast, super spicy (but best I’ve ever tasted!) jalapeno baked beans, and Texas mac & cheese with grilled pablanos and ham. T cooked it all. Can I have him, A? Pretty please?
Salud!
Mark and Ariel. Two of my favorite people.
The Nerd.
The Hubs.
T.
You know The Nerd is at your dinner party when they break out the dictionary!
Me and A. Isn’t she a cutie?
And finally, that peanut butter pie I dreamed about all week. I finally got to make it and eat it. And I’m proud to say that it was yummy.
P.S. As for the title of this post, I truly have no idea why I said it at the dinner table, in the style of “that’s what she said,” but it sparked a laugh-fest that went on forever. It was glorious.
While lounging in the living room, watching an ever so delectable episode of Man v. Food, I was overwhelmed with the uncontrollable urge to make myself a peanut butter pie, just like they make it at Yoder’s in Sarasota, Florida.. Since I don’t feel well and lack the energy to actually get off my ass and make one, I decided to sit at the computer and make a virtual pie, if you will. Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to my peanut butter pie dream:
Here we have a slice of dreamy virtual peanut butter pie. Let me break this monstrosity down for you, from the bottom up:
1 – Peanut butter crumbles. This is the most simple, yet most important part of a virtual peanut butter pie. This is where all of that peanut butter flavor comes from, and must therefore be sprinkled (or painted) liberally throughout the pie’s layers. In the real world, this would only require two ingredients: peanut butter and powdered sugar. That is all.
2 – All butter pie crust, baked to a beautiful golden brown. Need I say more? All you need for this to become a reality is butter, flour, salt, and water.
3 – Vanilla pudding. Homemade, of course. This needs a few more ingredients (milk, sugar, cornstarch, vanilla, etc) and takes the most time to prepare, but I guarantee it will be worth it. If you have never had homemade pudding, you are depriving yourself of something magnificent. It is the only kind of pudding I will eat, in the virtual AND real worlds. So there.
4 – More of those fantastic peanut butter crumbles. Bet you didn’t think MS Paint could get your mouth watering, did you?
5 – Fresh whipped cream. Heavy cream. Powdered sugar. Kitchenaid mixer. Hot damn that’s amazing.
6 – The piece de resistance. Top that baby off with MORE peanut butter crumbles, and you’ve got yourself a delicious, homemade peanut butter pie. (Or…just…you know, draw yourself one and call it a day.)
I make two very important promises to you right now, dear readers:
1 – I WILL be making this pie this weekend. And I will blog about it, recipe and all.
2 – Instead of vanilla pudding, I’m going to make chocolate…which was actually my original intention, but I completely forgot about that until after I drew my slice. I mean, if I’m too lazy to go make myself a pie, do you really think I’m going to RE-make my drawing? Idon’tthinkso.
I’m super excited, because we just ordered 3 key pieces to begin our living room transformation! Ever since getting the office into shape, I have been dreaming of the perfect living room. And now we are on our way! I plan on doing a full before and after post once it is completely finished.
The main thing I’ve wanted is a small leather sectional with a chaise lounge. This will fit perfectly in our space, and in a chocolate leather (not shown here), our dogs can finally get on the couch with us. We also love the clean, contemporary look of the legs, which are also functional, allowing us to sweep under the couch (dog hair is a bitch, yo).
Then we compulsively bought this chair in this exact color:
Its hard to tell, but it is actually a recliner. Perfect!
And finally, we ordered this tv stand from Target:
All we need now is a coffee table, console table (optional, of course), and a jute rug to pull everything together. Can’t wait!
This little bundle of joy was born on 9.02.10. Her name is Mary Alexis, and she is my newest niece and the newest love of my life. Congratulations to my beautiful sister and fantastic brother-in-law.
I only have one conversation. We conversed via email about one hot minute ago and I thought I simply must share it with you. Here goes:
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The Nerd: YOU GAVE ME A F*CKING HICKEY!!!
The Hubs: Haha…sorry. I just don’t know my own strength. Turtlenecks are SOO in right now anyway.
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Can I just express how high school-ish I feel right now? A hickey? What woman in her upper twenties gets a hickey from her 30-year-old husband?!?!?! I texted this to my sister and her only comment was, “Weirdo.” Sis, I must agree with you.
