Culinary Adventures: Somewhat Experimental Tomato Pasta Sauce

On Friday, I decided to have gluten-free pasta for lunch, only to realize that the closest thing I had to pasta sauce was tomato paste.  Being the shamelessly lazy person that I am, I decided to make do with what I had instead of going to the grocery store.  Accordingly, I googled "how to make pasta sauce from tomato paste," and found this recipe for Quick Tomato Pasta Sauce from taste.com.au

Behold the wonders of the internet: Americans who are too lazy to go buy pasta sauce can learn from Australians how to cook Italian food.

It's Official: We're Going to Dragon Con! (Also, My New Favorite Thing is airbnb.com)

Very exciting news: last night DH and I booked a place to stay in Atlanta for Dragon Con 2015!  Yay!  We already have our memberships--DH purchased them several months ago after I went to Dragon Con for my bachelorette party, and he had to miss out.

Distractions: Winnie the Pooh meets Star Wars

The Internet is a place where one can find many things that are simultaneously random and awesome, and thus highly distracting.  Case in point: Chewbacca, Han Solo and R2D2 drawn as if part of A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh.  

Random + Awesome = Winnie the Pooh and Star Wars Mash-Up

Awkward Baby Clothes

Ever since finding out that my sister is pregnant, I have spent an inordinate amount of time looking at baby clothes online for a woman who is not pregnant, has no human children, and no longer works in a baby store. Yesterday, I saw these outfits from Chou Chou on Zulily. Do I have a perverse mind, or is the positioning of the elephant trunk...a little....awkward? Seriously, what were these designers thinking?

Culinary Adventures: Gluten-Free Empanadas

Since I've gotten married, I've been cooking much, MUCH more frequently, especially at dinnertime. I'm not familiar with very many recipes, and I don't particularly relish the idea of eating the same thing over and over again, so I've been trying a lot of new recipes--at least 3 or 4 every week. I've tried to stick to recipes that are quick and easy (or are at least CLAIMED to be quick and easy), and I've met with a reasonable amount of success: so far everything I've made has been eatable, and sometimes even extremely tasty.

This past weekend, I attempted to make empanadas based on this recipe from Real Simple. The steps are not complicated: make 8-inch rounds of pizza dough, put refried beans, salsa, and cheese in the center, fold in half, and bake.