I may have mentioned, I tried to grow basil last year and killed it in 5 minutes. This year BAM! mounds of basil. I hear everyone is having a crazy basil year. Maybe last year was too wet… you’ve got to have a good, miserable drought to keep basil happy. I’m watering it every day [...]

Categories: Foodie · Home Sweet Home · Nature-ish · Shutterbuggin'

We had the best meal of the entire New Orleans weekend at Cafe Amelie. K&K walked around earlier in the day collecting ideas for dinner and came back with photos of menus on their phones from three places. From the menu and description we chose Cafe Amelie, knowing that if it didn’t work out the [...]

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Photo by Jennifer König via Flickr
My favorite beer eeeevvveeerr is Magic Hat #9, made by the wonderful Magic Hat Brewery in Vermont. It was a sad day when I discovered I couldn’t get it in Texas. No need to send me advice for where to try, I’e gone everywhere and talked to everyone. Magic Hat [...]

Categories: East Coast · Foodie

There is a restaurant in Austin called Moonshine that my friends and I love (if you’re local and you haven’t been, you must go, it’s sooooo good). One of the best things on the menu is a Green Chili Macaroni with Chicken, someone always gets it no matter how often we go. My friend, Lisa, [...]

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