{spicy southern kitchen} easy chicken pie

do you know how sometimes you get a craving for something but you don’t get it right away and then that craving sticks with you for days and days until you do something about it? that’s how i have been feeling about chicken pot pie, and finally – FINALLY – i went out and did […]
the sun sets over sandbanks

to put it mildly, we’ve been house hunting. right now, we’re living in a two bedroom apartment right downtown and it’s more than convenient. everything is walking distance, and what isn’t is but a bus or subway ride away. there are tons of fun little restaurants and eccentric little nooks and corners to explore. as […]
roast butternut squash soup

as soon as the weather starts to turn from summer to fall i start craving soup. i guess i’m basic like that. but if loving soup is wrong, i don’t want to be right. and i love soup. i have an entire pinterest board dedicated to soup, though i’ve probably only tried three or four […]
fighting with frustration

i didn’t come into this parenting thing with an expectation it would be easy, i was under no false impression that we would sail through with flying colours. because it is hard, and i don’t think i had any idea of just how much of a struggle we were in for until dylan turned from a […]
flour finger paintings

oh the weather outside is frightful… a few weeks ago the city suffered through a heatwave, then august first struck and all of a sudden it’s fall. where did summer go? we mourned the weather as we mourned the cat who went on walkabout, and spent a lot of time indoors trying to stay warm […]