A comforting bowl of miso noodle soup is perfect for combating the chill in the air, especially when it is bulked up with good for you veggies like corn, kale, and snap peas.
miso noodle soup with corn, kale and snap peas

A girl could really get used to this whole being lavished with gifts while drinking white wine at 1pm on Sundays thing.

Being surrounded by all of your friends, family, and loved ones is pretty good, too.

But between you and me, I would have settled for the gifts.

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A snickerdoodle blondie is topped with decadent layers of dulce de leche and white chocolate ganache in these dulce de leche snickerdoodle bars.
dulce de leche snickerdoodle bars

If I had to describe my relationship with cinnamon sugar in three words…they would be “torrid love affair”.

Okay, fine. Unrequited torrid love affair, if we’re getting all nitty gritty truth telling about things.

I mean, I can’t really imagine that it likes it when I stick my tongue into a big bowl of it and don’t come up for air until it’s gone…but sometimes you really have to just let the passion take you where it takes you.

Wherever that may be.

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You won’t miss the meat in this vegetarian sweet potato chili that is filled with smoky spicy flavor, beans, and lots of veggies.
vegetarian sweet potato chili

All you need to know about this chili is that it got the ultimate praise that one can hope for when cooking for the Eats Well With Others clan: no one complained about it.

(Trust me, that is saying something.)

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new apartment

1. Welcome to our new apartment! Of course now it’s filled with five million cookbooks (not an exaggeration), the.boy’s tie collection (also quite large and in charge), and a very large farm table in front of the window that I spent a small fortune on. My reasoning – it’s life furniture. I can tell because it is large enough to hold me, the.boy, and at least eight future babies if we utilize both long sides.

2. Of course, then we’ll have to buy a second bench, but that’s what the interest on our savings account is for! (<–#wishfulthinking)

3. And by farm table, I obviously mean that I bought it at Macy’s because was a farmer going to expertly carry it up five flights of stairs and assemble it in my apartment? I think not. The Macy’s expert furniture installer guy, on the other hand? He’s obviously a sucker.

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Fusion tacos are totally trendy right now and you’ll understand why when you taste these tofu, broccoli, and kale teriyaki tacos made with homemade teriyaki sauce!
tofu, broccoli, and kale teriyaki tacos

It feels like it’s been too long since we’ve taco’ed.

I mean, according to my calculations, 99 days, 2 hours, and 3 minutes.

Give or take.

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30 minutes are all you need to get a bowl of gnocchi with summer squash, corn, basil, and feta on the table! It’s a great easy weeknight meal that even the pickiest eaters will love.
gnocchi with summer squash, corn, basil, and feta

So, apparently hiring movers is this secret magical thing that the.boy tried to hide from me all these years because he’s all DIY, but really is the best thing that ever happened to us.

Especially when the movers in question are basically Olympians who can leap up five flights of stairs in a single bound.

But disguised as ordinary Russian dudes from Queens.

Guys, I’ll keep your secret.

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