The Yum Yum Factor

Okay, for a year I did a regular Friday thing called "it's Friday, it must be soup!" and it seemed to go over well and all that but, come on. I am not going to make a new soup every single week and I rarely make soup at all in the summer. What I DO do all the time, all year long, is eat out, search the web for great looking food and food related shiz. So, I am now going to change Friday from soup day to a recap of the top stuff that happened in food that week. This first week is a bit light because between the flooding and The Kid not feeling well for a couple of days, we didn't really eat out at all, which is NOT the norm around here. We spent last Saturday at Lailey Vineyard  , sampling their tasty wines and eating sausages grilled over their old barrels. I LOVE their vidal and a little birdie there told me that the 2013 is going to be the best in years so keep that under your hat. We all really liked their 2012 Rose  even though I ended up spilling more of i...

There has been no cooking this week at all. We were not home from Friday to Monday and Monday was family day so that means a movie and then ordering in some thai food. Cut to The Kid coming down with something for Tuesday and Wednesday, a full 12hr++ work day for me on Thursday and a shorter day on Friday and you know what that means. Nobody is doing much cooking so I have nothing new to share. I have, on the other hand, had lots to time to browse the net and I have pinned some amazing looking things that I want to make in the near future. would you just look at this delicious looking lentil soup?? It's from a beautiful blog called the spice spoon and once you are there , have a poke around cookie ice cream with espresso caramel This one is from a blog called seven spoons. COME ON!! ice cream that you don't need a machine for filled with crunched up cookies and espresso caramel? I could bathe in this ice cream. I have made a key lime pie ice cream using this evaporated m...