We had another spook-tacular Halloween party at my friends house this year. The theme was Villains but everyone was welcome to dress in whatever they wanted. I spent a good portion of Saturday making my many treats for the day, but unfortunately I failed on taking pictures of any of the food. And there were some really great treats. There was an actual litter box (new of course) filled with a dessert and it looked so real. I thought it was a prank at first! Other treats included – zombie flesh dip (bagel dip), graveyard taco dip, celery mummies & spiders on a log (celery & cream cheese) really drunken…

***UPDATED Halloween is coming up quickly and with it falling on a Thursday this year, it’s almost like we get two weekends of costumes and parties.  I am seeing information surface about spots in Waukesha having festivities for the spooky day and I want to share that with you all.  It looks like the majority of the events are taking place on Saturday, October 26, which means I will have to miss them this year. I am joining my friends for their 2nd annual Halloween party. Last year we were the cast of Once Upon a Time.   This years is a Villain” themed party where we will partake in spooky…

Fall is in full swing in Wisconsin and I am seeing apple picking and pumpkin farm trips on a lot of my Facebook friends’ feeds these past weeks. I don’t think I’ll be making it to a pumpkin farm this year, but it was a great time last year. There are two pumpkins that my mom told me I could carve if I wanted to, so I’ll work on those next week. But I was able to use a few apples from a local orchard (Patterson’s in Greenfield). I came across this recipe from Lui in Cucina through my blog searching and Pinterest and although this was called a cake,…

My weeks are getting crazy busy but I wanted to show you what I have been up to – so here’s another phone dump for your enjoyment. Some of these will spawn into blog posts soon – I promise!   Homemade Beef Enchiladas – soooo good! Beautiful sunrise while heading to work! And a beautiful sunset on my first 4-mile run in months! And the awesome screw that I found in my tire on Sunday – a patch is working so far – fingers crossed! Ate at Christina’s on Sunday afternoon and the chicken was good – the sides could use some work. My nephews awesome iPhone skills – he…

Image courtesy of Key Westconsin I just had to take in the beautiful weather on Friday, because it might be close to one of our last beautiful Fall days in Wisconsin. I decided I was going to multi-task on my lunch by placing my lunch order, getting an errand done and then picking up the lunch, all while enjoying the colors of the trees, the warm sunshine, and the awesomeness that is downtown Waukesha. I chose Key Westconsin for lunch as the lobster rolls that I feasted on last time popped into my head last week and I decided it was time for them again. I checked out the lunch…

My company is celebrating 30 years in business in 2013 and back in January at our company Christmas party, my boss surprised us with a trip to Vegas! We were even invited to bring a guest! I brought my friend Carolyn on the trip and we had a blast eating our way thru Vegas while site-seeing, relaxing and exploring. Day 1:We left on a Saturday morning and arrived in Vegas around noon their time, 2 pm our time. We were definitely hungry already!!!!! We took the long-way to the Red Rock Casino and did a touristy trip down the strip with a great comical shuttle driver that entertained us on…

So now that we are officially in October, I am finding so many more pumpkin items out there. There are so many, that if I would buy them all, I would need a second source of income and a storage locker to house it all. I have found yogurt, bagels, butter, cream cheese, English muffins, granola bars, pancake mix, soup, M&Ms….the list goes on and on. I couldn’t buy all of those, but I did get some to try and so far I have been pleasantly surprised. Pumpkin Pie flavored lip balm. I found this in Spring at Good Harvest Market and it’s getting to the end, but I use…

My grandma’s friend Adeline (whom we knew as Auntie Adeline) canned everything. And because my mom scored a deal on a bag full of peppers ($2 for all of them!), we decided to make sweet pepper relish. So we chopped and chopped and chopped some more. And then we cried while cutting onions (chewing orange gum doesn’t help btw). But 8 cups of peppers and 3 cups of onions later, we were ready.  This canning experience was actually quite easy and it took my mom back to the BT days (before teaching, when she had time to can).  Combine everything, bring to boil and fill up the jars. Make sure…

The United Way in Waukesha County has started it’s third year of the United We Dine program. How the program works is that local area restaurants join forces with United Way in Waukesha County to donate part of their proceeds on a selected day to the organization. This year the program has expanded to run thru December! I participated last year by specifically choosing to go to certain places on certain days just to support the United Way in Waukesha County. And yes, I am specifically writing out their full name each time because the proceeds of United We Dine go directly to the Waukesha County affiliate of United Way.…