Hi friends! How was your weekend? Mine just flew by and involved a major purchase: a new car! I didn't mention it at the time, but I had a scary car accident experience last month that left me fine but totaled the Toyota Corolla that I drove for 11 years. I had been wanting a new car for awhile but couldn't really justify looking for one since my current car was running fine, so the accident forced me to get one. Everything happens for a reason, and I'm pretty excited to now own a Hyundai Sonata. It's a hybrid car, which the environmentalist in me loves. Besides spending an entire day at the car dealership, highlights of my weekend were short hikes on both Friday and Sunday evening.... ...nabbing a sweet Batgirl Halloween costume for my Dingo... ...which surprisingly, she didn't seem ... [Read More]
squash recipes
Butternut Squash Ravioli with Sage Pesto
Recipe creation can be a funny thing. Sometimes I'll come up with a recipe, jot down my ingredient ideas, easily throw it together, and it'll turn out awesome. Other times a recipe will sound delicious in theory, but not turn out as great as I'd hoped for. When that happens, I either completely throw out the idea and call it a kitchen experiment defeat, or I keep thinking about how I can change the recipe to make it better. This week has been a case of the latter. When I bought a butternut squash recently and was trying to think of what to make with it, my hubby was the one who suggested ravioli. I took his good idea and ran with it, coming up with a meal idea of butternut squash, sage & parmesan ravioli with a buttery white wine hazelnut sauce. Though it wasn't bad, I just ... [Read More]