Lisa

  • Jalepenos and olives

    I made brownies the other night, and Mac began his normal tendency of eating them. But he doesn’t eat them in just any fashion. Mac prefers the crusty outside brownies, so he will eat the corners first then the rest of the outside. I enjoy the chewy, crust-less brownies. It’s quite a convenient arrangement. …

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  • Sunday Social: Halloween

    1. What was your favorite Halloween costume as a kid?My mom made us these costumes one year. Leslie was (bridal?) Belle. I was Snow White.  2. If you could go back to your childhood and dress up as something, what would it be?I would clearly have switched my Snow White outfit out for Belle’s…

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  • Halloween for wimps

    Halloween is the scariest holiday of the year. People love scary costumes, scary movies, and paying money to get scared at haunted houses. So how do major scaredy-cats handle Halloween? I have to admit that I am the biggest wuss alive. While I’m not scared of anything, I scare easily. Loud noises? I flinch. Opening…

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  • Born in the wrong decade…

    I stumbled across this image last night on the Pinterest. The Social Security Administration releases the names of babies born in every year, and a website put the graphics together in a gif. Clearly, this Lisa was born in the wrong decade. We pretty much crushed the 60s. Which is surprising because the rare smattering…

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  • Pumpkin flavored everything!!!

    Around this time of year, you can pretty much find anything with pumpkin. Pumpkin food, pumpkin drinks, even pumpkin home décor. Hell, Starbucks’ pumpkin spice lattes even have their own hashtags. Umm, #firstworldproblems. Mac happens to love pumpkin flavored foods. His mother knows this and stocks up at Trader Joe’s before they come to visit….

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  • Chicken nachos

    Chicken nachos are easy to whip up, so the term “recipe” loosely applies here. We eat them as an appetizer, as dinner, or as a game day snack. I think I originally made my version of chicken nachos to use leftover taco fixings, so it’s pretty adaptable. If you’re cleaning out the fridge, you could…

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