2365 Rice Blvd Houston, TX 77005 (713) 520-6662 www.rugglescafebakery.com Back in college, whenever I visited Houston, I would meet with my friend, Cindy. She introduced me to Ruggle’s White Chocolate Bread Pudding. For a few years there, we shared our loyalty and love to a this divine dessert. I’ve never ordered anything else at Ruggles. [...]
Usual location: SW Corner of 5th & Congress Austin, TX 78701 It was a beautiful day in Austin yesterday and a friend and I decided to walk around the Domain, an outdoor mall. They had a holiday event of some sort going on complete with face painting and balloon animals for the kids, gift and [...]
700 S Lamar Austin, TX 78704 http://bananarchy.net/ I took my little from Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America out to dinner last night and for dessert we tried out Bananarchy. She cracks me up because I try to take her to new places all the time, much to her chagrin, but after she tries [...]
4710 E 5th St. Austin, TX 78702 (512) 385-2900 www.justines1937.com/ * note: website’s splash page has sexy black and white photos of topless women in bathtubs :) A couple of Fridays ago, at around 9 pm, my high school buddies, Hillary and Alex had just climbed my 3 flights of stairs after driving almost 4 [...]
1219 South Lamar Blvd Austin, TX 78704 One of my close friends, Cindy came up for a visit (first visit to Austin in a very very long time) this weekend. I met her up at Madam Mams for lunch on Saturday and then for a delightful second trip to Gourdoughs on Sunday. She was enamoured [...]
We had a little informal Christmas party at my day job last week. Someone brought in a homemade gingerbread house! I’ve only made a few dinky ones with milk cartons and graham crackers in elementary school but this one was all legit! She baked her own gingerbread and everything was edible. I slacked and didn’t [...]
I’ve been meaning to make these Oreo truffles after reading about them on a few baking blogs. I kept forgetting about them until Jordan Reid blogged the easiest recipe for Oreo truffles I’ve seen. I made a day out of it on Saturday. No joke, it took me 4 hours to make them and about [...]
The good thing about just coming back from a packed weekend is that I have photos to blog without really haven’t to use my spent brain. Today, I bring you photos from a high school reunion I had last weekend in Houston. I saw Hillary and Alex for the first time in a while. We’re [...]
1115 E 11th St Austin, TX 78702 (512) 542-9542 http://www.bluedahliabistro.com/ I love the holidays because it tends to bring old faraway friends back home. On my way drive back to Austin from Houston, feeling incredibly full from Hugo’s reunion with Kim, I get a text message from my Solemate, Kym. She’s going to be in [...]
Our P Potluck Party was pretty fun. I made pigs in a blanket; Brandi made these wonderful pineapple chocolate chip cookies and pot roast with cranberry sauce. Our friends brought twice baked potatoes, pizza, pita bread and hummus, Parrot Bay rum, jalapeno poppers, Pepsi, PBJ sandwiches, peach pie and pecan pie. We had so much [...]