Particularly appropriate as today marks the first day of a new adventure :).
Month: September 2015
Motivation Monday
“Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
A Pioneer-Inspired Dinner
I absolutely love Ree Drummond, the Pioneer Woman.
My mom first introduced me to the World of Ree several years ago, when I asked her why she kept laughing whenever she was reading her Kindle. It turned out she was reading The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels – A Love Story. Every so often she would read out loud sections from the book that she found to be particularly hilarious. My mom has this kind of fun quality about her that when she finds something incredibly funny, she kind of gasps out the story in between chuckles. This happened a lot when she was reading.
Once my mom finished the book, I commandeered her Kindle so that I could read the whole thing myself. I ended up finishing the book within a couple of days and I was hooked. I started browsing her website and reading her blog posts. My family and I started recording all of the episodes of her show in the Food Network. For quite a while we couldn’t go a meal without some aspect of it being a recipe from her show/website. Several years later, a lot of Pioneer Woman recipes have become some of our family meal staples.
Tuesday I wanted to make a special dinner for the Firefighter. It was the first day in almost a week that he and I have been able to have a real dinner together. He has been working a ton of overtime and Tuesday morning had just come off of a 72 hour shift. I wanted to make him something hearty, delicious and man-approved. I decided to go with the Pioneer Woman’s bacon-wrapped meatloaf.
Sinfully Stuffed Brownies
I know that I said that I wanted to bake all kinds of apple delicacies this fall, but last week I needed to come up with a dessert on relatively short notice.
Even though my carmelita’s were requested, I didn’t really want to make the exact same dessert for the same dinner group twice in a row. I wanted to make something a little bit different, while still using the leftover caramel and chocolate chips I had. When I came across this naughty brownie recipe and was inspired.
Motivation Monday
Remembering
Happy Labor Day
All the Fall Things Bucket List
We are at the beginning of September! School is back in session. College football is back. Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back in coffee shops in abundance (not my thing, personally, but just about everyone else seems to be happy about it). Soon the weather will start cooling down, the leaves will change colors and the nights will get just a little bit longer.
I love the fall.
Even though this is going to be my second fall living in KC, last year I traveled for 17 days in September and then was gone again for 6 weeks from mid-October through the end of November. I didn’t get to do anything really fall related, except dash to a Cider Mill quickly one weekend. I want to change that this year and have come up with a mini bucket list of things I want to do this fall season.
Alissa Margaret 