• Mexican pinwheels

    Hilary and Aaren would kill me if I didn’t post this recipe soon. So here we go. But don’t think you are going to get the recipe without a story. One of the cookbooks I use quite frequently (mainly because it has a lot of my mother’s recipes in it) is the Severna Park Newcomers […]

  • Just breathe

    I was swimming tonight (only 1500 yards, because I got there late) and thinking about this article I read in the New York Times that talks about the importance of breathing and rhythm in swimming. It actually took me a long time before I could swim freestyle for any length of time for basically that […]

  • Southwestern pulled beef

    I grew up in Arizona and love Tex-Mex food. And there is this salsa chicken I make frequently that might be the easiest thing ever (recipe coming soon). So the plan for my birthday party was to make chicken tacos. But I figured people would also want some beef. I was trying to figure out […]

  • National Dance Day

    National Dance Day is coming up, y’all! As the “So You Think You Can Dance” viewers among us know, it is July 31. And hip-hop choreographers Tabitha and Napoleon (aka Nappytabs) have created a dance you can learn if you want to participate but need some direction. Or you can just do the running man […]

  • Eye cream

    I was getting a facial today (courtesy of my mother-in-law! Thanks!) and I was thinking about eye cream. I have been wearing eye cream for few years now… maybe five? I can’t really remember. But finding a good one is not easy. I have tried numerous drug store brands, but I hated all of them. […]

  • Pink rainbow cupcakes

    Sorry I have been a bit MIA! But, luckily for you it was my 30th birthday this weekend, which means tons of food and, of course, strawberry funfetti cupcakes. I love pink, I love rainbow sprinkles and I love strawberries. Plus it was an 80s party. So strawberry funfetti cupcakes were kind of a no-brainer. […]

  • Cherry-chocolate chunk ice cream

    My husband loves cherries. And as I may have mentioned, he told me that his only request for a Fourth of July dessert was that the secret ingredient be cherries. I did the cherries on a cloud, of course, but I had also purchased a big bag of fresh cherries. I could make a pie, […]

  • Chocolate gorilla smoothie

    Pretty much every time I go to the grocery store, I see the bananas and think, “Maybe if I get these bananas, I will eat one of those for breakfast instead of a monster cookie.” Then I buy them, and the following happens: There are many things you can do with brown bananas. Banana-coconut muffins […]

  • Beer biscuits

    My brother calls beer “liquid bread.” So I guess you could call these “bread biscuits.” But that just doesn’t have the same ring to it. We are always stocked up on beer in the EatSwimShop house, courtesy of our Heineken mini-keg and the Beer of the Month club. The specimen above is from the ATL […]

  • At-home Ace

    OMG. I was just reading a very serious and important story in the Baltimore Sun… and then I saw this. Duff Goldman, of “Ace of Cakes” fame, now has a line of cake-making supplies. Truthfully, some of them sound a little shady. And I wish the website had some ingredients listed so I could decide […]