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Pinterest Makes Me Feel Inadequate

Ilinap · November 29, 2012 ·

    You could say I am a tish addicted to Pinterest. You might have considered a pintervention even. Pinterest is a fine way to click clack around the interwebs while your husband and kids watch the 11th inning of a baseball game. It's great for putzing when … [Read more...] about Pinterest Makes Me Feel Inadequate

Tags: cook, DIY, home, pinterest, random, recipe

I made this from Pinterest. – Wordless Wednesday

Ilinap · June 27, 2012 ·

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This is how we make cookies in the South. – Wordless Wednesday

Ilinap · June 6, 2012 ·

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Tags: cook, North Carolina, wordless Wednesday

Taste This! – The Delicious Sequel

Ilinap · April 23, 2012 ·

I am lucky to have friends who cook. I am unlucky that they live far away. Luckily, my friend Jennie has a cookbook coming out next year. It's called City Girl, Country Kitchen. And trust me, I just spent the weekend in her city kitchen and ate some fantastic country fare. You … [Read more...] about Taste This! – The Delicious Sequel

Tags: cocktail, cook, food, friendship

Dessert Pizza

Ilinap · March 4, 2012 ·

My life is full of first world problems. I might be the only cook I know who doesn't own a stand mixer. I have been coveting one for years, but Santa apparently doesn't think I've been a good girl. Mac Daddy refuses to buy me kitchen gadgets for Mother's Day or my birthday … [Read more...] about Dessert Pizza

Tags: cook, dessert, food, recipe

Standards and Stress and Sisyphus

Ilinap · February 28, 2012 ·

Sometimes I look at my shelf of cookbooks and snicker at the irony of one of my first books, The Joy of Cooking. To many cooking is more chore than joy. I love to cook but I still feel that way sometimes. I keep telling myself that if I lower my standards my life would be easier. … [Read more...] about Standards and Stress and Sisyphus

Tags: children, cook, family, kids, motherhood, parenting

Cookin’ – Wordless Wednesday

Ilinap · January 11, 2012 ·

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Tags: Bird, brothers, children, cook, Deal, play, wordless Wednesday

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