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Pumpkin Pie Monkey Bread (and My New Bedroom Reveal!)

Brooklinen provided me with a set of their Classic Hardcore Sheet Bundle for free to review, but my opinions are always my own.

Pumpkin Pie Monkey Bread
Pumpkin Pie Monkey Bread

Four years ago, I had just moved into my new apartment in Cornelius, North Carolina, and made my first recipe in my new kitchen: German Chocolate Cheesecake. Today, I’m surrounded by boxes in varying states of unpackedness in my new apartment in San Diego (La Mesa, to be more specific), California, and I just made my first recipe in my new kitchen: Pumpkin Pie Monkey Bread! Most of my apartment is still in disarray, but I’m eager to share with you the ONE room I’ve finished, my bedroom. I’m super proud of how cute it turned out! I always love when people post tours of their newly decorated spaces, so I thought you might like to see mine.

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Milk Toast Brownies (and my new portfolio!)

Milk Toast Brownies
Milk Toast Brownies

We’re here! We’re in San Diego! And we’re alive! And we just moved into our actual apartment (as opposed to the Airbnb we’ve been renting for a month). We’re just in that awkward state where everything is in boxes and we’re trying to figure out what normal looks like. Since I really should be unpacking or working on grad school coursework, of course I decided to ignore all that and create something new!

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Coconut Cream Brownies

Coconut Cream Brownies
Coconut Cream Brownies

Nearly everyone finds writing hard. Writers find writing hard. What makes writing hard for you?

Perfectionism makes writing hard for me. I have high standards for the impact I want my writing to have. I’ve read such breathtaking work — and I almost won’t read it anymore because I know it feeds this despair in me — so I know how beautiful, perfect a sentence or image can be. I know you can make someone stop and exclaim, “HOW DID THEY THINK OF THAT.”

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Buckeye Brownies

Buckeye Brownies
Buckeye Brownies

My family is a driving family. Mike wants to gouge out his eyes with his car keys when he has to drive for over a couple of hours, but when I was little, my family would trek 10 hours to Orlando, 14 hours to Missouri, 10 hours to the Gulf Coast. We just piled in the car and dealt with it.

I never minded too much, but it did make the trip go faster if I had something good to read. Before one epic trip to Missouri to visit extended family, my parents bought me an activity book based on The Simpsons. It was giant, glossy, bright. It beckoned to me from my mom’s bottom nightstand drawer. But I was NOT allowed to read it before the trip.

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We Tried Blue Apron, and Here’s What We Thought!

We Tried Blue Apron, and Here's What We Thought!

This isn’t a sponsored post and it wasn’t solicited by Blue Apron — it’s just our honest experience! Mike and I signed up for the service with a referral from a friend, so we received our first week of meals free; then we paid for another week to give it a good try. Now that I’m a subscriber, I have invitations I can send out for three of you to try a Blue Apron delivery for free. Come read about our experience and comment if you’d like one of them emailed to you!

What Is Blue Apron?

Blue Apron is a weekly meal delivery service. You can choose to receive meals for two people (three meals per week for $59.94) or four people (two or four meals per week for $69.92 or $139.84, respectively). The Blue Apron website allows you to specify what type of foods you’d like to receive (for instance, Mike and I don’t eat most meat but do eat fish and shellfish) and also to customize your weekly menu (you’re able to choose which three meals you want to receive out of the six they’ve planned for the week.) You can also skip as many weeks as you want, paying only for the weeks you receive.

On delivery weeks, you receive a box packed full of pre-measured ingredients and bright recipe cards with step-by-step recipes. The recipes are accessible for beginners and supplemental materials on Blue Apron’s website will teach you kitchen basics like chopping and dicing. (more…)

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