it’s been filter four outside for nearly a week now! you know, filter four? the last filter on your betacam for the most bright natural light? the one you only use a couple times a year!? my goodness. where are my sunglasses?! snow everywhere. so much white! excuse the super hot photo, but these two are just too cute.
at least it’s starting to warm up?
still can’t park in our neighborhood, but thanks to some incredible neighborly effort, we’ve managed to dig snow tunnels on the sidewalk so people can at least get outside. our little mochi loves running through them!
do not, i repeat, do not even think about parking in a spot you didn’t dig out in baltimore. in fact, don’t even drive by a spot you didn’t dig out. and if a dug out space has a chair in it… or a table… a walker… even stick in a bucket: just turn around. around here it’s every man for himself!
we’ve never seen so much snow. pretty big words coming from a girl who grew up in the mountains of appalachia and a chef who’s from colorado! this baltimore blizzard brought in nearly 30 inches of snow in less than 24 hours. it snowed so much, so quickly i could hardly see across the alley to our neighbor’s house. saturday night was so wild, the city made it illegal to drive, which meant the chef couldn’t come home from work and had to sleep in a patient room at the hospital! when the chef finally made it home from work sunday morning, we had to spend an hour digging out a place for him to park. it was treacherous… and a little funny. ; )
so many hugs, so many oysters, so many glasses of champagne.
here are some of our favorite images from may 30, 2015.
an answer to the age old question of how to make your home smell like you just baked some delicious treats without actually baking: stovetop simmering. i don’t like candles and the chef is adamantly against any type of artificial scents — a tough spot to be in when you have a 90 pound dog constantly threatening to make your house smell like, well, dog. here’s our solution…. all natural scents, made with whatever you have in your pantry. perfect!
just a quick note to remind myself of our first kitchen as a married couple and how beautiful the light is in the afternoons. i could stare all day.
when the chef has a couple days off of work in a row — a rare, magical unicorn of an achievement during residency — we love to take little getaways. and now that we’re in baltimore, it’s amazing how many places are so close to us. a benefit of living on the east coast, i guess. we wanted to see the beach at least once before it got really cold, so we decided on a trip to norfolk, virginia. it’s only about four hours away — or three and a half episodes of this american life, which is how we calculate distance. there’s not much to do in norfolk, but there is a lot to eat. one of our favorite stops was a place called the handsome biscuit. it’s easy to see why.
the chef and i spent the past week in his hometown of grand junction, colorado. we went for his sister’s wedding but it was so nice being able to spend time with family and friends we don’t get to see very often. between taking wedding photos and hiking, we spent a lot of time on the national monument… the perfect place to snap some iphone pics ; )
a couple weeks ago i shared a recipe for a cherry + peach galette. it was beautiful. it smelled like heaven. it was so warm and sweet and the crust was so flaky. but i was lying to myself. the chef has a sweet tooth like you wouldn’t believe: he’ll eat a whole pan of brownies in one sitting. but savory is more my style. i even carry salt on my keychain. and i love what galettes look like, with the folded over, pleated crust. i knew it had to become a staple in our kitchen. there are so many ways you can fill it, making it a staple has been très facile. the latest incarnation: this savory three cheese and zucchini galette.
food | life | baby
food | life | baby
chef meets girl 