30-Minute Healthy Beef Bibimbap Bowls
The hubby is a big fan of Korean food, and particularly the popular rice-bowl dish, bibimbap. And really, what’s not to like? You’ve got meat, veg, grain, and egg all in a single dish…topped with spices that bring heat, sweet, sour, and tangy all at the same time. Usually, though, whenever the hubby had a bibimbap […]
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Cheap 4th Anniversary Gift Idea: Watercolor Slideshow Video!
Well, today marks four wonderful years with my hubby and partner in crime. We’ll be taking a trip to the UK & Ireland next month to properly celebrate, but I didn’t want to let the day go by without at least marking the occasion in some small (and hopefully, inexpensive) way. Last year, presented with […]
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From Table Scraps to Super Soup: Making Your Own (Sugar-Free) Chicken Broth
As we often tend to go on low-carb kicks around these parts, I’ve come to know that you often find sugar hiding in some pretty unexpected places…everything from beans to tomato sauce to salad dressings often include the added white stuff. But my personal pet peeve for hidden added sugar? Chicken broth. Go ahead and […]
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Preserving Cabbage: Salt-Lick-Style Freezer Cole Slaw
When I first moved back to Austin for grad school, one of the very first places I remember going to eat was called The Salt Lick. Located about 30 minutes outside of Austin, the Salt Lick promised country music and all-you-can-eat barbecue and sides. In other words, it was pretty magical. Having lived here for over […]
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Fun DIY Housewarming Gift: Bloody Mary Easter Basket
One of my best friends recently moved into a brand new custom-built house. The process was arduous, with her spending months picking each and every detail and overseeing (and occasionally correcting) the construction along the way. But after a many month process, she is now happily settling in to her new place, and invited us over for […]
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Garden Update: Spring 2017
You always hear that gardening is addictive. You start with one thing…maybe just a single container tomato plant, or a small herb planter box…and then BAM! suddenly you’re the weirdo tilling up your whole front yard. Well, my friends…I’m like, five seconds away from becoming that crazy person. Since building our wicking raised bed garden […]
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Weight Watchers Friendly Camping Meals & Photos from Muleshoe Bend Campsite
This post contains affiliate links. For our full advertising disclosure, see our About page. Recently, one of my best friends decided to give Weight Watchers a try, and after seeing her success, I decided I would join in too. Of course, the hardest part about any diet is making it work around “real life” and […]
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Trip Review: ARIA Las Vegas Resort & Casino
This past week, I headed out to a work conference, same as I do 2-3x a year, every year. But this time I stayed somewhere new – the Aria in Las Vegas. And it was pretty damn magical, friends. Not only was my room super nice, but it also had what I will now consider the gold-standard in bathrooms […]
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Building a Raised-Bed Berry Bramble
My name is Whitney, and I’m a mail-order gardening catalog addict. (Hi, Whitney.) And that’s why, at some point in the dormancy of winter, I apparently decided to order a whole bunch of plants that I simply did not have room for in my existing self-watering raised bed garden, or even my in-ground partial-shade garden […]
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Healthy Make-Ahead Lunch: Southwest Chicken Salad
It has been said that Southerners like chicken salad a little *too* much. And it doesn’t escape my memory that I have not just one, but two different chicken salad recipes on this blog already. But today, I made a batch of our favorite “Southwest” chicken salad — with no mayonnaise, no added sugar, and […]
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