from the market / may 26
this past sunday we only got three things at the market: a bag of mixed red/yellow tomatoes (quickly become a market staple for us), a beautiful little bundle of swiss chard – which was among the...
View Articlehow to have good coffee while you travel.
ok, so, if you’ve been reading our blog for awhile or know us personally, you probably know that over the past year-ish, we’ve sort of become coffee snobs. no, we haven’t forever sworn off starbuck’s...
View Articlehappy weekend
happy friday, friends! i don’t know about you all, but even though this was a short week, it felt so freaking long. add in the fact that we were mentally in vacation mode all week already, and it felt...
View Articlecalifornia, pt. 1: newport beach.
newport beach is one of my very favorite places in the world. it’s the one place that i always want to go every time i come home. last thursday we took a family trip to newport, and even though it was...
View Articlethe coffeehouse series: cafe voce / shanghai
I’m so happy to finally be kicking off the coffeehouse series that I wrote about awhile back, and even more happy that the first post in the series comes from my bff Ruth & her husband David. R...
View Articlefrom the market / june 16
after a couple of weekends away from home we were definitely missing our sunday morning farmer’s market ritual. it was a pleasant surprise to come back to so much more variety than a few weeks ago…i...
View Articlethe coffeehouse series: handsome coffee roasters / los angeles
Originally, the photos from this post were going to be California, part 2, but I realized that the photos I took from our day adventure to Los Angeles were overwhelmingly of Handsome Coffee Roasters....
View Articlemornings / 03
happy monday, friends! the last three weeks have been just a tad insane…between getting back from vacation, the birth of our beautiful niece tianna (!!!), and a move across campus to another building,...
View Articlefrom the market (and garden) / june 30
we didn’t get a whole lot from the farmer’s market this week…we’re still transitioning into our new apartment, and the kitchen is still in a little bit of a disarray, so we’re starting back up slowly....
View Articlehappy weekend / currently
reading / the athlete’s palate cookbook - we just started training this past week for our second half-marathon, and are enjoying reading through this cookbook for some good, runner-friendly recipes!...
View Articlefrom the market / july 7
i’m sure some of you out there are probably pretty sick of seeing what we get at the farmer’s market every week, but i’ve gotta say that these are some of my favorite posts to write and even more so,...
View Articletwenty-six.
last night, i rang in twenty-six with a simple dinner at home with kevin, followed by cupcakes from our wedding bakery, and brewing beer with the kit i got k for our anniversary last month. although...
View Articlesmall plates.
life has been a little – okay, a lot – hectic over the past month, so unfortunately this space has been a little neglected. I came over here today, with plans of writing a little update post, but then...
View Articlelife, lately.
// brunch at kitchen table, a sunday afternoon favorite // // introducing kevin’s uncle ronnie to the wonders of the french press // my first trip to the iowa state fair (complete with cheese curds,...
View Articlehome.
we’ve been here for a week now, and it feels like it’s only been a day and already been a year all at once. it’s home, and even though it’s far from feeling that way a lot of times, with each...
View Articlenew home styleboard 01 / master bedroom
we’re pretty far away from any of the rooms in our house being truly complete, but i have (of course) spent quite a bit of time over the last month or so planning how i’d like to decorate and renovate...
View Articlefrom the market / september 15
i’ve definitely missed doing these ‘from the market’ posts over the last couple months and am glad that we’re settled into our new place while there’s still a few weeks left of the farmer’s market....
View Articlewinners.
yesterday we completed our second half marathon, the first in over 3.5 years even though there’s been many times in between that we said we’d do one. we both beat our previous times, and i beat my...
View Article{recipe of the week} thin crust pizza with potatoes, kale & pesto.
we make pizzas of some sort at least once a week around here, usually on pita or naan breads or whole wheat tortillas, and occasionally on homemade dough. although i’d love to someday find the perfect...
View Article{diy} hairpin leg coffee table.
we’ve been buying a lot of furniture over the past month or so, and a new coffee table for our living room was sort of the last big piece we felt like we needed within the near future. (our old coffee...
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