Life

We made it!  Happy Friday before the Merry Christmas weekend.  I hope that you are spending it with family, friends, and food!  It’s no secret that I love pizza.  Like a lot.  I worked in a bar for several years where I made pizza twice a week – in 7 hour shifts.  To say that I’ve probably made thousands of pizza in my lifetime is...

I had every intention of getting sous vide eggs from Starbuck’s thanks to a gift card from my friend Julianne (morning sunshine!).  But when I walked into the lobby of my building, I completely forgot that it was a tenant breakfast hosted by the office of the building. The smell of donuts slapped me in the face once I got in the lobby. Chicago Peeps...

Tuesday night I met up with my friend Christina and her husband Paul.  They are both burger snobs like me, and Mott Street has been on both mine and Christina’s burger bucket list for a while.  Mott Street is actually an Asian restaurant about 3 miles northwest of the Loop.  This is not your typical burger.  It’s “Asian inspired.”  It is a double quarter-pounder chuck...

My sister Jenn sent me this from Instagram on my way to work yesterday.  I had to smile because I had something similar for my breakfast.  Great minds think alike!  She’s a good follow on Insta too 😀 My long time blog friend Julianne sent me a Starbucks gift card, which was so thoughtful – thank you Julianne!   I got the sous vide egg bites...

I am getting a kick out of my morning greeting – I have so many people sending me videos of them either waking their kids up with “happy Monday!!!” or tagging me when they say it to their followers – makes me so happy! I took a screen shot of the awesomeness 😆 I felt so much better yesterday. So many people reached out –...

I started out my day yesterday in tears, but as the day wore on, I was feeling so blessed.  I had no idea my Instagram post would get so much love – as of this morning I had over 1300 likes, 210+ comments AND over 300 direct messages.  It will take me days to get through them all, but I will reply to each one. ...

I can’t believe it was four years ago today that we brought Tony home for hospice.  That whole time frame seems like such a whirlwind and a lifetime at the same time.  We went from being put on a transplant list to me standing next to Tony, coffee cup in hand, the day after Thanksgiving.  It was just he and I in the room, and...

I really wanted a snow day yesterday.  Well, we got snow, but not enough to where I couldn’t get to work.  But I did wake up to a fallen tree in my back yard and this precarious branch on a wire in my driveway.  I wasn’t sure if it was an electrical or phone wire, but I thought it might be a good idea to...

My recipes are finally somewhat organized!!!  Huge props to my brother who spent hours on fixing my site over the weekend – it means so much to me Charlie – thank you!! Most of my traffic comes from mobile devices – you’ll see the three lines on the left – click that and you’ll see “My Bizzy Recipes!” I have a several categories . ....

Did you know that my skinny pizza dough can also make naan bread?  I just used two ounces of pizza dough, brushed a non-stick skillet with a bit of grape seed oil, then rolled out to about a 5 inch circle.  Let it cook on one side until you see bubbles forming over the top, brush with a bit more oil, then flip and cook...