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Los Cabos Mexican Grill & Cantina {Independence, MO}
Last Friday my friend Karen and I went to Kansas City. There is a Duluth Trading Company store up there and she needed to return/exchange some items. We started out in downtown KC and ventured out to the suburbs to find Duluth. Um… let’s just say we had an adventure. You could see all the…
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Cake Decorating Day
We had a Cake decorating day! Believe it or not, all these mixers on this counter are mine… Okay, well technically the blue one is my mom’s and the gray one is the hubs. The black one is a spare one we have and I don’t own one anymore… I sold mine. But still… They…
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PW’s Chocolate Cake Recipe
When we decided to have a cake decorating day, I decided maybe I should make my cake ahead of time so that we weren’t waiting on mine to bake. Good thought, right? We had access to two ovens, and there were going to be at least 3 of us that I knew about and possibly…
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Fried Pie Day
I learned Abug gets her face making abilities from mommy…. So a while back… try last spring, last summer maybe… hubby and I had Karen and Jared over for dinner. I tried to make fried pies and let’s just say it was doomed from the start. I told Karen sometime we’d go to my grandma’s…
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Decorator Icing – Large 7 cup batch
Over the weekend we decided to have a cake decorating day. Back in 2008 (or maybe 2007… I don’t remember) I didn’t have much better to do and really wanted to learn how to decorate cakes. It’s ironic because I’m not a huge icing fan… I prefer the cake without icing… Go figure. So they…
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Chocolate Covered Strawberries
Have you ever had chocolate covered strawberries? OMG, they are awesome. Obviously that’s just my opinion but my opinion counts so it’s all good. When my mom was pregnant with me, I guess she craved strawberries. There were 3 stores in town and every night she’d go to a different one, buy a quart of…
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Jose Peppers – Belton, MO
It was the day… The day to head to Kansas City to watch the Chiefs in the Playoffs. They were divisional Champions and now it’s time to claim victory… I’d like to say the day went as planned, but sadly, it didn’t… If you follow baseball at all (which sadly I don’t) you’ll remember that…