Wicked Smart

I LOVE PEACHES! There, I said it, my secret is out!  I would list fresh peaches as one of my top 5 favorite things about summer, maybe even in the top 3.  I will eat peaches anywhere, anytime and anyway they are prepared.  Grilled peaches with marscapone cheese? I'm there!  Juicy, fresh peaches? Hand them over!  Peach cobbler? Heck.  Yeah. Luckily for me, my mother makes, hands down, the world's best peach cobbler. It is so good, in fact, that I have flat out refused to ever attempt my own cobbler making, instead opting to call her up and whine, beg and plead until she agrees to make me cobbler the next time I visit.  Why bother with an unnecessary skill when I've got the master on speed-dial? Unluckily for me today, there was a slight mishap in the transportation of my requested peaches from Eastern Washington and the peaches became damaged.  And by "damaged" I mean "horrible bruised and totes gross". Apparently my friend put...

One of my best friends and I have a running joke going about how we can be completely different people who are exactly the same.  For as much as we agree and are similar in our very stubborn, power-driven, old-fashioned personalities, we are just as different when it comes to the day-to-day items of decorating, spending money and most of all, in the kitchen.  She is my go-to girl for questions regarding anything to do with desserts or baking.  Half the time I don't have any clue what she is talking about when she is discussing varieties of salt and cooking utensils and macarons.  (For the record, I spent 6 months thinking she was obsessed with macaroons, the yummy coconut cookie which is still one of my favorite (and she thinks is just an average cookie).  She was, and is, actually obsessed with macarons , the tiny French cookie, which I find to be just so-so.  Again - we are totes different.) Our style in the kitchen actually says a lot about our person...