Personal Faves

Over the last several years, the excitement of starting and running my own company has definitely worn off. I still enjoy going to work early every day, and I really enjoy the people I work with and I have some of the best customers in the world.  But overall, this has basically become a job, [...]

Dear visitors from ThingsIBoughtThatILove.com: No, the site has not been hijacked, Mindy let the domain name expire and we bought it in an auction at Godaddy.com.  We’ve pointed it to our site for now. We understand our blog probably won’t be as good as Mindy’s, but we’re hoping something is better than nothing. We were [...]

Brussel Sprouts.  Yuck, right?  Bzzzzz…WRONG ANSWER.  These miniature-cabbage-like bundles of bliss are one of Sarah’s and my new favorite veggies.  Something about the layers of these normally quite bland tasting little delights really works with more rich foods like, say bacon (mmmm, bacon).  They’re also super healthy (a good thing, especially when your flavor is [...]

My father in law just taught me how to play this song and it became an instant personal fave.  Enjoy!

Guys love a good dry rub now and then.  Read that however you want. We also love a good dry rub on our steaks.  That said, women love a great steak too and with a good dry rub, you may start to develop a whole new appreciation for a good slab of red meat. Now [...]

So Sarah’s post about one of my favorite recipes (Horseradish Crusted Filet) reminded me of one of my favorite side dishes for that recipe.  Yes, you guessed it: Grilled Asparagus! 1.  Clean asparagus and cut the ends off where they start to get hard and white 2.  Lay out the asparagus on a cutting board [...]

What do you get when you plug in the names of your three favorite bands at Pandora.com?  You get a sick playlist that lasts for weeks. What do you get when you rate 20-30 of them with ‘like’ or ‘dislike?’  You get a playlist so scary close to what you would actually put on your [...]