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50-11% of my friends are artists of some sort like, Steffanie Christi’an, one of my dearest friends and one helluva vocal artist who represents Detroit to the fullest is coming out with an exciting new project in a few short weeks. “Steffanie Christi’an is Way Too Much.  Stuff Tina Turner, Rage Against The Machine, and Alanis Morissette into […]

Everybody knows that I love course sea salt. It makes everything so much better, especially baked goods. It’s my secret little weapon. Now… I’m on black lava Hawaiian sea salt. Today I made a few deviled eggs with Montgomery cheddar, dill, smoked paprika, a pinch of black salt for a fun garnish. So good! My […]

Had some good friends over for brunch today and made some peppered buttermilk biscuits. Everybody loves buttery biscuits…. And these were excellent with fig butter. Mmmmm!

Little known fact about me: I am not a fan of anything with pumpkin meat as ingredient. Period. No pumpkin lattes, pumpkin pie no pumpkin nothing. But I love the way pumpkins look. I actually find them to be quite beautiful and I do love toasted pumpkin seeds. I guess this is kinda like me […]

The vision of autumn leaves take me back to my childhood where my aunts would take my brother, cousin & I on little expeditions to collect leaves in our neighbor on cold weekend days. After collecting bags of all kinds of leaves, we would go home to make glue from a mixture of water & […]

It’s a total bummer that the Detroit Tigers didn’t make it to the World Series this year after being shut down by the Boston Red Sox during the American League Championship Series. Although the loss was a let down, the season was great and I had some great experiences this summer. From hanging downtown on […]

If you’re looking for an easy Sunday brunch sandwich that combines the best of all worlds… well, you have to try this. Have to! Ingredients: – Applewood smoked bacon – Creamy Brie – Fig butter – Pumpernickel The jump Off: Spread the fig butter (available at Trader Joe’s) on your bread. Cut the brie and […]

While searching for an image of a rose that photographed 6 years ago (that I never found), I stumbled across this long forgotten image of a tiger lily from one of my old gardens taken in 2006. They were some kind of hybrid double tiger lily that I loved. Finding this made me smile and […]

While hunting for new soul house songs on Traxsource this past spring, I stumbled upon “Man of Summer” by QB Smith and was instantly hooked. I played the song on auto play  & repeat for hours and adopted it as my 2013 summer theme song. Ever mutha needs a summer theme song! The lyrics hit […]

So I was out & about in DC last weekend doing my thing and all of the sudden, my super boo, Butta shows up. Things got real & real fun! Next thing I know, it’s a photoshoot. You may know Butta from her award winning blog, Soulbouce (my favorite sources for new music) where she […]