Our Top 5 At 2019 Chicago Auto Show

So, you attended the First Look For Charity Gala. Congrats you raised $2.8 million this year! You broke the record!! However, while you were enjoying being glamorous you may have missed some of the best parts of the 2019 Chicago Auto Show. Here are our top 5 favorite things to do and see this year! […]

Raspberry Pear Limeade

Refreshing Limeade Let me start off by saying that I LOVE made from scratch lemonade!!  Which is a weird way to start a recipe post about limeade, but my love of lemonade really bleeds over to all ades.  It’s that tart sweet taste that I really love and ades just fit the bill.  So, when I’m […]

Not Your Mama’s White Bread

Creating The Ultimate White Bread I’m a recipe tinker-er. If I find a recipe I want to try and it doesn’t work, I’ll tinker with it until it does. So, this recipe comes from a desire for perfect white bread. I’m a huge fan of what King Arthur Flour does, but their recipes don’t always come […]

My Name Is Alison And I Have A Problem

Confession Time We’ve had such weird weather this fall, I mean its December 3rd and it’s 50 degrees in Chicago of all places. The land of the crazy wind chill and bad, blustery, cold, snowy winters. We did already have snow once this year, but it just hasn’t felt like winter. That too could be […]

In the Kitchen: Fall Recipes 10/6/17

Perfect Fall Recipes So let’s start something new!!  While I love making my own recipes, there are times when just like everyone else I find a recipe.  I hope that these fall recipes will be what you are looking for too.  When finding recipes, I either make it work for me or just give it […]

Egg Drop Soup

First, I must apologize for being lax on posting.  Some sort of cold has hit us and kept us from being normal functional human beings.  However, coming through the other side of some tissue boxes, I can share a great soup for the sick that you can make even if you are suffering. If you […]

Raspberry Lime Sweet Rolls

Raspberry season has not quite come to an end.  Until the first frost you can still pick at farms like Heider’s Berry Farm in Woodstock. A place where raspberries taste so good you would swear off candy.  We ended up picking there a few times this summer.  So of course there was an abundance of […]

Lemony Chicken Mushroom Lasagna

Lasagna is a comfort food.  A dish that we never get complaints about because while I remember it having cooked spinach which I used to despise, all the ingredients blend together into one brilliant mouthful.  However, the cheese is a big selling point and some of us have been known to add extra and if […]

3 Baking Secrets for Big Bakery Style Muffins

Muffins that elusive cousin of the cupcake that doesn’t ever turn out as pretty and perfect.  Luckily, I have mastered the secrets to perfect muffins.  Are you ready to be a muffin master? If you follow along with our kitchen adventures on social media, earlier this week you saw a perfect bakery style blueberry muffins […]

Bumble and Bumble Looking for Hair Models

Hey guys! This isn’t a normal Rosie Discovers post, earlier this fall Susie and I had the opportunity to get awesome haircuts at a Bumble and Bumble master class held at a premium salon in Wicker Park. This is me after my Bumble and Bumble cut from last fall.  I really loved this cut as […]

Chive Flower and Cheddar Biscuits

Chive flowers are in bloom!!!  They’re gorgeous and purple and mine grow like weeds during late spring.  Chive flowers taste just like chives and are edible too.  I’ve read that you can make chive flower vinegar, chive flower olive oil, fried chive flowers, adding them  to salads or to breads and biscuits.  I don’t use a lot […]

Guava Limeade

Are you sensing a theme?  Maybe this is just the beginning, but since I don’t have a slow juicer (but desperately want one!), I’m making a variety of ades this summer.  I just love their sweet/tart taste!  I’m probably such a fan due to my sweettart addiction as a child.  It’s like a healthy version […]