Recently, I went to BJ’s Brewhouse with my friends Catherine and Mhari. I normally love salads,but I don’t order them at restaurants. I want something that I can’t make or have at home. This time was an exception. I got their crispy honey mustard salad and was hooked. This salad was soo good,but also so easy to make at home. So below you can find my recipe.
Grant and I recently had our 3 year anniversary, it is crazy to think that we have been married that long. We normally don’t buy each other gifts and just spend time with each other and do things nice for each other, but somehow we ended up doing a little bit more so that was a fun unplanned thing.
As I know I have mentioned before, I got a new job at the end of April, I still cannot believe I have been working her for over four months already! I love my new job! Don’t get me wrong, I really miss all of my friends from my previous job; At Alpha we almost lived on top of each other because there was only so much space, and you really got to know people well. At Westover, everyone has their own offices, I am not complaining as it gives me more freedom to do what I like in there, but it does get lonely sometimes. Anyway, I knew I wanted my office to be fun, trendy, and a space I could work in. I was trying to explain to my coworker that once Grant and I get a house it will not look like this. Grant and I both prefer a more minimalistic style with less pops of color and more monochromatic white, grays, and blacks. Anyway, here is the progression of my office so far; it is nowhere near done,but it is a start.
Lemon Cupcakes
Below is one of my favorite cupcake recipes. I have never been a huge cupcake or cake person preferring pies and chocolate bars more. I even had pies as birthday cakes as a child just to show you how much I prefer them, but this recipe has the perfect consistency as well as a nice fluffy inside  which is great. I also love that it is from scratch. I am not a fan of most box mixes other than for brownies, and I am not saying that to sound like someone snooty,I  can just tell the difference. I grew up with my mom making everything from scratch, and I try to do the same.
This is another great favorite recipe of ours, this one takes a little bit more prep work from me than some other recipes. I still think it is very worth it though.  The recipe yields either one normal pie which Grant and I can’t eat fast enough, or 4-8 Ramekin pot pies pictured below.  One ramekin feeds one person perfectly; I usually make 6-8 of them with one recipe depending on how full I fill them. Then I freeze all of the extras before baking in either separate Ziploc bags or one large one.  When ready to eat the frozen ones, just preheat the oven and stick the frozen ramekin into it and bake for 35-40 mins or until golden brown and enjoy.
I have made previous attempts to organize our kitchen. It is a very small space that just barely fits everything we need, but that could be because I have a lot of kitchen stuff. Anyway, I was getting very annoyed with how everything was looking and functioning under my sink. Or to say the least wasn’t functioning. I can’t drill into my cabinets at all since we are renting, and the cabinets are to thin and cheap to drill into without ruining the fronts, so this is what I had to resort to.