whats for dinner / 02

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winter cooking may be my favorite. i am not sure if it is the combination of the cold temps and craving for hot meals, but i feel like the best foods are wintery foods. like soup, you can really have soup any time of the year, but in the winter months it is the prefect food. and roasts! with potatoes! all of it tastes divine in the winter. another reasons why i love winter cooking is the simplicity of it. you can basically throw anything into a crock pot or cast iron pot (which you don’t have, you should invest, i used mine everyday last weekend!!), and it will turn out good. the food is hearty, filling, and warm. when i eat it, i really feel the warmth spread to my entire body. because i try to eat seasonally as much as possible i start to gravitate towards root vegetables this time of year. carrots, potatoes, squash…  you get the idea.

last week i was on a soup kick, just craving it like crazy. i tired this chocolate turkey chili and lentil soup, both were so good and will be classics in the kirsebom home.

the internet and pinterest truly changed how cooks operate. Instead of having to search through cookbooks and recipes (not to say I don’t do this, it is actually one of my favorite hobby), you can go to google and search whatever you want to make, and a list of hundreds of recipes come up. so as i have been browsing lately, i keep finding more and more wintery recipes i want to try. the four above are some that i have been itchy to try and am planning to attempt some this weekend (especially the bottom right one). its a good time of year. a hearty one. 

how do you find your cooking inspiration? any good winter recipes? 

three for the weekend !

a few things about this weekend:

1. the start of the weekend was slightly stressful with my final paper due at 11:59 pm saturday evening. the entire work week i hardly slept (thanks finals week!) with me literally waking up at five am every day. i got off work friday afternoon and all i wanted to do is cuddle up in my nice comfy be. the "worst part" was chad got off work early on friday and he decided to take a short nap. somehow, i gathered enough self control and continued to work on my paper. with no nap. however, because i resisted the desire to nap, i finished my paper early on saturday afternoon.

2. it was chad's grandmas 91th birthday on saturday. i think she is the cutest lady and i hope that i can live to 91. imagine the stories and life experience you have after 91 years. truly inspiring.

3. the weather in minnesota was frigid the entire weekend. so cold that i, the extrovert that i am, did not want to leave the house. i really wanted to have some type of celebration for finishing another semester of graduate school but i kept looking at that thermostat and decided the partying could wait until the temp reached at least zero ;) what did we do instead? we cuddled up, boiled water for tea, made a fire, and watched breaking bad. and not just a little breaking bad- we watched 9 episodes! i don't think i have ever watched so much television in my life. i am slightly proud ;)

how was your weekend?

ps: outfit details shirt// gap pants// american eagle shoes// clarks bag// coach scarf// h&m

marshmallow world

this song makes me too happy not to share with you for a friday afternoon pick me up. i thought it would be appropriate to share because minneapolis is covered in snow (or as dean and frank say, whip cream!) and has become quite cold. this is the song is my pick me up anytime i get the winter blues. and to be honest, if you stop by my house anytime between now and february, there is a high likelihood that i am humming away to this tune :).  i hope you have an excellent weekend staying warm... and have a yum, yummy day ;) (listen to song for reference)