brief recap

tiredness has consumed us since our dear friends have left. here are a couple photo gems from our weekend with more to come!   maybe tomorrow i’ll get things together to write and share…three days of busyness and touring the city have us exhausted. enjoy for now! matt & rachel

visit

these dudes (minus matt of course) are visiting us this weekend. i don’t think either of us has been so excited…probably since we were last in texas (which was also when this picture was taken). both of these guys were in our wedding and have been huge influences and friendships for us. they are both

44: black bean & corn taquitos

yuh-um! traditionally, i think of taquitos as something i pick up at quiktrip…not make at home. i had only had them a couple times (thanks to my brother zach), but when i came across this recipe on sweet pea’s kitchen i thought “i should try to make these”. i mean, after all, while the qt

my farmer

this week matt has been/will be in racine three out of five days for work…it’s kind of a lot..and makes for about 4 hours of driving per day if traffic is really bad (which it usually is). talk about long days for him! but. yesterday, i received these two pictures from with the text “i

no. 43 :paleo pumpkin muffins

ok, so anytime you try a new recipe, regardless of who thinks it’s a great concoction, it can always turn out to be not good in that it is 1. not what you expect and 2. tastes, for lack of a better word, awful. the hard thing is, you always have to try things for

gluten-free dinner

recipes 41 and 42 were fitting to go together… we’ve been taking advantage of the sweet corn sales around here recently, making roasted corn & black bean salsa and grilled corn on the cob but we decided to try another way last week…chicken and corn chowder with cornbread. chowder really fits well into the recipe

weekend of stories

i promise i will post about the other new recipes we made last week. but first, a recap from this weekend. friday: tiredness led us to chipotle and a movie…12 angry men from our afi list, which received the highest rating we’ve given to a movie so far. saturday: productivity in the morning with errands

fried rice

remember? i told you guys i would post our recipes from the week. we made the fried rice first, so lets start with that… monday we didn’t have any plans for dinner…meaning, at about 12pm i was peering into the freezer to determine what to take out. after a quick text to matt about his

calories

whaaaaa? we’ve started counting calories around here. yep. counting calories to reduce cholesterol, get back into shape, and to keep ourselves more accountable with a continuing journey towards more healthy living for us both! so…we haven’t really changed much in terms of the foods we are eating (i’m still gluten-free and matt is about 75% gluten-free),

40: gf chocolate fleck cake

i’ve been really staying with the theme of desserts here lately for my recipe challenge… this cake is again, from the gluten free cooking for dummies. i knew it was going to be hard to beat…that chocolate cake with cream cheese icing matt has made a couple times had been our standard go-to for chocolate