Tomorrow we start our diet. Our food consumption has been a little out of control lately, so Dustin and I have vowed for the month of August to be more about clean eating. More salads, fewer desserts. I thought about trying the Whole 30 diet where you eliminate sugar and basically eat just lean protein and all the veggies you want in a fashion...

I really enjoyed making the pumpkin biscotti back in October, so this holiday season I decided I would make biscotti again with a slightly different twist using the ever so popular holiday flavor combination of chocolate and peppermint. I intended to use these cute little Christmas tree sprinkles I have, but when I went looking through the...

One of the labs on campus has a full kitchen in their workspace. Back in the 1970's, the workspace was an apartment  where researchers used to conduct experiments during which they'd watch people in a "natural habitat," so to speak. Now those kind of experiments don't really get done anymore in psychology, so the lab space was passed on, leaving...

What should you do when you have two cartons of unconsumed eggnog that was supposed to be served at your holiday, but you got so caught up decorating (and eating) cookies and playing Rock Band 2 until 2:30 in the morning that you forgot? You start baking like crazy with it. I spent a lot of time looking up fun eggnog recipes. I had been...