Yum!

This past Friday we celebrated a good friend of our's, Ed, birthday. Karl had everyone over to his place and we ordered pizza and wings and I made a delicious salad made of field greens (my favorite,) dried cranberries, feta cheese and sugared walnuts (that I made myself) with a basil balsamic vinnagerette dressing. It was delicious, to the say least, probably could have ate the whole thing if I let myself.

Then of course with it being a birthday there had to be some sort of a baked good, right? Well, in light of me wanting to start baking more and trying to utilize my cake decorating skills from working at Tops way back when, I have started to make cupcakes. I use the Pillsbury white cake mix (sorry guys, when you have a couple dozen to make this stuff is much less time consuming) and then I make the frosting myself. I use the classic buttercream frostings with the Wilton website and for the vanilla I put just a touch of almond extract = Yumminess! Well, here they are!

Yes, the are as delicious as they look! 

vintage

For any of my fashion/vintage/shopping friends out there: Madewell has teamed up with Refinery29 have found some beautiful vintage pieces that are FOR SALE but for a very limited time. I just thought I should share this with all of you loves out there.

Enjoy :)

P.S. I have some delicious, sugary goodness to post about from this weekend that I will try to get to later on today or tomorrow.

love.love.love

This past weekend was excellent. Triple dated with our friends and my sister and her boyfriend. It was full of silly moments and delicious pizza! We went to Trattoria Aroma in Williamsville. Let me just say that I love brick oven pizza, it's real bad. I can't get enough of it, I would love to have my own brick oven (oh, to dream!) First, my love and I started with the Riesling Braised Rabbit. It was delicious, cooked just right, this was my first rabbit experience and I must say it was a good one. The sauce was just sweet enough with a nice creaminess too it and the rabbit was served with crostinis and that served a nice sort of 'crunch' to it. YUM! Then I had their mushroom pizza that was incredible! Nice and thin and delicious, although I was a little envious of Nic's pizza with pesto, fresh mozzarella and tomato. 


Then on Monday my dreamboat of a boyfriend hand delivered these to my office:

Aren't I just the luckiest??

Simple things.

This weekend was good. I spent some much needed time with my two best friends eating delicious white pizza and salad while drinking wine and talking about life, jesus, married life (as one of them is married) and all sorts of good stuff.

It really is the simple things in life.

This morning I went to church and it was great, as always. I love feeling like I have a 'home' with Church On Tap. Sundays really are my favorite day of the week (except for Thursdays at 10pm...fist pumping time) I love how great everyone is. I just love worshiping God amongst some fantastic people and gaining new friends and growing new friendships. It's just great and I feel like it's really where I'm supposed to be right now.

I started this blog with a few things in mind. I wanted to talk and express some passions of mine. One of them being food, I have not been cooking recently as much as I would love to and I'm hoping that this will give me that push. Also, to talk about God, another thing that I haven't been spending as much time on. I'm hoping to start a new study this week (If the postal service is quick enough) and just pose some questions and hopefully get some feedback...maybe I would need some followers then huh? And also, to just talk about life in general, exciting things (like my new car) going on in my life and hopefully no female hormonal rants.

In my quest to learn more about creationism vs evolution I'm currently reading Darwin's Black Box by Michael J. Behe. The whole topic is something that I always was fascinated by but never knew much about either side to form an opinion on or just blindy follow one or the other (which is something I would never do.) It's something that has really been on my mind lately so I spoke with my pastor who was once a science teacher and wanted to pick his brain on the topic and he told me to read this book and it helps explain it more. So far I've completed two chapters and while it has it's boring biology parts it's still really interesting. Will talk more about this later. Feedback on the topic is encouraged :)