the best store-bought ice cream?

Turkey Hill makes some amazing flavors of ice cream, but there is one in particular that takes the cake.  I'm not talking about their Party Cake flavor-- way too sweet.  I'm talking about Double Dunker.  Just thinking about it makes me want to buy it tonight.  The description Turkey Hill gives of this delectable flavor is "mocha ice cream swirled with chewy cookie dough and crunchy chocolate cookie swirl." Mmmm, that's a lot of swirling and cookies and chocolate and perfection.  When I get an ice cream cone from a shop in the summer, I always change it up.  If I'm being really indecisive, I usually go for a vanilla soft-serve and cherry-dipped if possible.  What's your favorite flavor?

So my sister had one of these parties which I would describe as a tupperware party minus the tupperware and plus delicious food.  I thought it'd be old ladies sitting around ordering snacks ( there was definitely a little bit of that), but it was awesome.  I ate so much great food and it was all free...until I wanted to order all of it.  They have this infamous beer bread...wow, it's amazing. I can't even handle it...I would eat a whole loaf if no one else was invited.  I ordered a mix for that and also a mix for "warm onion dip" which is essentially this packet of spices that you add to a brick of cream cheese, mix it up with a half-cup of swiss cheese and bake it in the oven for 10 minutes, topped with french  fried onions.  It's kind of like heaven, I think.  Especially when you have the beer bread to dip in it.  And the best part of the beer bread (besides the fact that it's delicious) is that it is literally just the mix inside the box plus a can of beer. SO easy! I would definitely recommend attending one of these parties if you know anyone who throws one.  It's definitely not lame...unless you think free delicious food and wine is lame, I guess!

sometimes

my store carries cooler mens items than womens...

...more Pendleton and other cools brands...better winter gear.

But, we do have this Penfield jacket that I'm kind of interested in:

Decisions, decisions. What's the best winter coat (brand) you've ever owned?  We carry some Northface stuff and I might just jump on the bandwagon even though I've hated on it forever.

More Breakfast!

I had some really great pancakes this weekend.  They were in New Hampshire though...sigh.  They were blueberry/chocolate chip and I could hardly eat any more than three bites because I had already devoured the rest of the meal: two eggs (sunny side-up), bacon (it was amaaaaazing), homefries, AND a homemade stickybun to enjoy with my coffee.  There's a bakery underneath the restaurant where all the breads are made.  So this place is in Woodstock, NH, where I spent the weekend, and it's called The Station.  There's the Clement Room, for breakfast, and the Station itself, as a bar and restaurant.  They also have a brewery in the building.  The best part about my breakfast was the homemade corned beef hash.  It had beets and carrots in it! Sounds weird, right? It was probably the best hash I've ever had.

I also ate at the station the night before for appetizers.  There was a live band and the place was crowded.  I had an amazing pulled pork sandwich and delicious sweet potato fries.

If you're ever in the area, check this place out. Woodstock is a smaller town near the more well known Lincoln, NH.

http://www.woodstockinnnh.com/

socks+heels/booties

Yep, I love it. One of my favorite fall looks.

the best of both worlds

cheeseburger pizza.

Nope...it doesn't get much better than this.  I had it for the first time at this amazing pizza place in Falmouth for the first time last summer.  First of all, the restaurant is called Stone L'oven...um, amazing. (http://www.stoneloven.com/) If you're ever in the Cape, please go there.  The sweet potato/bacon pizza is seriously to die for. To DIE for!
So anyways, I made cheeseburger pizza a few times in my own kitchen because it's just that good and worth it to attempt replication.  I knew the sauce was just ketchup and mustard, which sounds like...ew...at first, but trust me, it's perfect.  So you've got the dough, spread that out, cover it in ketchup and mustard, then sprinkle cheese on it.  I think I used cheddar jack or monterey jack, but I mean, all cheese is beautiful, so whatever you want to use is fine.  I cooked the hamburg meat with some chopped up onions in a frying pan and once that was done, i threw it on top of the cheese along with tomatoes and pickles (claussen dill, of course).  The pickles kind of make it.  You can improvise and add whatever you want, but this is all it really needs.  I could eat cheeseburger pizza every day and be totally okay with that.

BREAKFAST

One of the best things in life is...breakfast.  I think I love breakfast so much that Ron Swanson would marry me for that reason alone.  If you don't watch Parks & Rec., you should.

(Wednesday morning's breakfast from Off Broadway Diner; my favorite hometown spot in Taunton)