An Update on the 2017 Culinary Expedition: Where We’ve Traveled this Fall
You may have been wondering how the culinary journey has been going, or whether we’re even still on it. The answer is slowly, and yes. We’ve been doing an awful...
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A Taste of Portugal
Way back in January, I saw $300 non-stop tickets to Lisbon over Thanksgiving and jumped on them. It didn’t take much convincing to get Dad and Kippy to join us....
Popeye’s Buttermilk Biscuit & Sausage Stuffing
We all have one item that we’d be totally heartbroken to find missing from the thanksgiving table. Mine is stuffing. One year we even had a turkeyless Thanksgiving – no...
Angola: Muamba de Galinha
Moamba de Galinha is Portuguese for Chicken in Muamba sauce. No, I’m not practicing for my upcoming trip – Portuguese is the official language of Angola (Angola was a Portuguese...
Monday morning meet-up: a half smoke half marathon, a cooking marathon, and a whole lot of onesie time
Thursday I finally hit the wall, and I hit it hard. Since we got back from our second trip in as many weeks, I’ve had something just about every single...
Ironman 70.3 Austin Race Recap
Well, we did it, y’all! We cleared every hurdle the universe threw our way (and there were a lot of them!) and finished our first Ironman 70.3. This made us realize just...
Germany: Kaese Spätzle
I have somewhat predictably been saving my German recipe for Oktoberfest, which has long since come and gone. In fact, most of the festival – which is definitely on my...
New Orleans IM 70.3 (No) Race Weekend Recap
So, this wasn’t the race recap I was hoping to write. In fact, I can’t really call it a race recap because there wasn’t a race to recap. But we’ll...
Ukraine: Varenyky
I’ll start this one with a little fun fact: I never went to my own high school prom, but I’ve been to prom in the Ukraine! The summer after I...
Monday Morning Training Report: The Taper (Holy SH*T it’s RACE WEEK!)
HOLY.COW. It’s race week, guys. I have so many feelings. Mostly terrified. Okay, maybe that’s dramatic. But I’m pretty dang nervous. We’ve worked really hard for this, and let’s be real:...