Flashback Friday

Yesterday afternoon we were at Brooklyn’s for Taco Thursday.  April and I were doing our usual blog shop-talk, and then it hit me…it was Thursday, and I didn’t have a post ready for Flashback Friday.  What’s worse, I had absolutely no idea what to write about.  I wracked my brain for a while, and finally …

For as long as I can remember, my dad’s hobby has been his green thumb. We lived in an apartment until I was 9, and there were houseplants everywhere. I was so excited when we then moved into a house, because there was a perfect space out back for a patio/deck. I asked and asked …

Obviously this blog is primarily about food.  New restaurants, repeat restaurants, recipes. It’s my journey to expand my culinary experiences. But I wanted to find a way to expand the blog slightly, while keeping within the general framework.  So I’ve begun this new weekly post called Flashback Friday.  These posts will be About Me.  Longer, …

When I began this journey almost 3 years ago, I was in a major food rut.  I was such a creature of habit: I almost always went to the same restaurants, ordered the same dishes, and even cooked the same rotation of meals for lunch and dinner.  I had been doing that forever, and it …

“How did you end up in Stillwater”? I’ve been hearing this question since I set foot on campus in March of 2007. My standard short answer is this…Mike Gundy was an assistant coach at Maryland for 4 years (’97-’00), and I worked in the football office as well.  When I was looking for another job, this …