I really actually do like road trips. Let’s backtrack – I really actually do like road trips if I’m traveling with people I can otherwise tolerate for several hours on end. You have all this time to sit back, relax, watch the world fly by and get out of the daily grind. You can have long, deep discussions about random topics, play games to pass the time, or listen to music and sing along at top volume without having to worry about the neighbors thinking realizing that you are a crazy person. The problem with road trips is that sometimes they last longer than expected. There can be unexpected traffic, bad weather, a wrong turn, or you can find yourself in a vast expanse of nothingness with an extreme need for food or urge to pee. The unexpected is what usually fouls your mood and turns the trip from a fun escape from the norm into a marathon of monotonous dread. Here are a few things you can do to anticipate the […]
Cookies & Canada
There are three things in life that really excite me: food, family, and traveling. This weekend I get all three! I’m writing this post as I wait for some delicious and buttery Key Lime Meltaway Shortbread cookies to finish baking so I can glaze them. Tomorrow after work, hubs and I will make our way across the border up north for the holiday weekend to visit with all five of my sibs (and whoever comes along with them), plus my parents and one of my grandmas. Familypalooza! For the nine hour or so road trip, I decided that instead of stopping at a fast food joint in Middle-of-Nowhere, NY, we’d pack a travel-friendly meal/snack. After searching for a few minutes on Pinterest (my guilty pleasure for finding recipes – or just drooling over them), I decided to make BLT sliders with a pesto mayo. Yum! I feel like we usually end up bringing a ton of sweet snacks on our road trips, like chocolate-covered whatevers, dry cereal, fruit, granola bars and juice, […]
Introduction
Life is all about simple pleasures and small moments. If you can cherish these, chances are you will be able to live a rich and fulfilling life, no matter the setting. When I was a little girl, my mom would make me cinnamon toast, which involved toast, creamy butter, brown sugar, and a sprinkling of cinnamon. She was generous with the butter, which melted in thick patches into the warm toast. Such simple ingredients, yet such pleasurable results – it was the perfect combination of flavours and mouthfeel, and always the perfect treat. Sometimes, my sister and I would roll the toast into a tight cylinder and eat it like a churro, and then the dish was transformed into what we called “rolly bread”. I haven’t had rolly bread or even cinnamon toast since I became an adult. Sometimes we forget the simplicity of our childhood pleasures as we trudge through the mundaneness of our daily routines, or seek ever more exhilarating thrills which come so cheap and abundantly in […]