Last Friday I came home to a box of chocolate care of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker program with Ghirardelli Chocolate. Chocolate is a favorite any day of the week. The chocolate was all dark chocolate, their Intense Dark line, each bar had cacao percentages. one variety near and dear to my taste-buds is the Sea Salt…
Tag: Just for Fun
Micro Brew Review
Saturday’s downpours turned to sunny blue skies just in time for the beer to start flowing at the Oak Park Micro Brew Review. Thank you beer gods! Too bad they didn’t intervene and do away with the crazy long line for ID checks, but hey it was smooth sailing once we were in the event….
Bayless Garden Tour
My husband and I took part of a tour of Rick Bayless garden in his Bucktown backyard. The tour was given by Bill Shores who currently manages the garden. The yard is actually a few city lots and is an amazing urban space that makes the most of every square inch. There are numerous levels…
Dog Days of Summer
We are in the midst of the dog days here in Chicago. It is HOT HOT HOT! Even the dog wants no part of it. Been trying to keep cool as best we can, actually our house has not been too bad considering we only have a few a/c units in the house. With the…
Green Theme
We’ve had a green theme going on this week, not so much on purpose but it works given St. Patrick’s Day. The week started nicely with the long anticipated Shamrock Shake. Colcannon was a perfect side with lamb sausage and brown bread. It is essentially mashed potatoes with lightly sauteed cabbage and green onions mixed…
Swinging into Spring
We are “this” close to a green yard and the season of swingsets. OK, not quite but at least the temperatures have been warm enough to get the kids outside. My daughter has been so excited to swing on the swing set last night. Though our swingset has no functioning swings these days. We are…
First Sign of Spring
The Force
This Superbowl ad has been all over the web this week, likely most people have seen it. The four year-old hasn’t tired of it yet and is pretty excited to see it on “our TV”. He keeps asking me to re-play it on my laptop and his laugh is just as loud each time. A…
Votes have been counted, and the winner is…
Me! Yippee, I won. My song of choice will kick off this year’s Chicago Half Marathon. The song I picked is my go to song when I am struggling to finish a run, not to mention it is almost impossible for me to not do my stomping song when I hear it (despite my husbands…
I want you to want me.
I want you to want me TO WIN!!! The Marathon Miss Fit blog is having a Chicago Half Marathon Kick off Song Contest and I have entered! The winner gets to select the song to be played at the beginning of the race and get a shout-out to the crowd on race day. How cool…