Even though we’re only a few hours north of our last home in Utah, Spring tends to take its time making its way to Rexburg. And just when you think it’s arrived, boom, snow. Well, we’re a little tired of waiting for it to officially to be “Spring” here, so we made it Spring ourselves, […]

Don’t you hate it when people try to tell you, “You’re more likely to cut yourself with a dull knife than a sharp knife”? You just want to smack them, I bet. That doesn’t make sense, right? How can a dull knife cut you worse than a sharp one? It seems so obvious that sharp […]

Louisiana is the first place I had country-style mashed potatoes. Boiled in salt water with whole cloves of garlic. Skins on, mashed by hand with a potato masher, adding butter, sour cream, mayonnaise (just a touch), and a hefty dose of seasonings along the way. They were rustic, had a range of texture, and were […]