I really loved my 2012 challenge , which involved eating at one of the "Best New St. Louis Restaurants" and then recreating one o...

(note: this is a picture of a picture--my sister took it for her film photography class!) For the past three years now, I’ve self-impo...

Ryan and I have very different opinions when it comes to boots. It's not that Ryan doesn't like boots. He's actually quite fa...

 Though I'm posting this two days into December, we did manage to hit our final restaurant of the year for 2012: Eat and Repeat chal...

 I suppose it would have been the logical thing to recreate the chicken wings or the pulled pork after our 2012: Eat and Repeat Challenge...

This month kind of slipped away from us, even more so than usual. With my sister Julia's wedding  and our trip to Napa , September ki...

After our mind-blowing brunch at Half & Half for our 2012: Eat and Repeat challenge , it was a toss-up as to which of the two entrees...

Half & Half has been on my radar to try, long before it was recognized as one of the Twenty Five Best New Restaurants in St. Louis  ...

I don’t remember the first time I ate a pickle, but I know it was in the last two or three years. Year after year after year I had ask...

Another month, another new restaurant for our 2012 Eat and Repeat Challenge! Although we're only choosing 6 of the 25 restaurants f...

A delicious explosion. That's what we'll call the near-disaster that took place in my kitchen the evening I decided to recreate ...

Home Wine Kitchen has been on my radar ever since it's opened last year. In June, we tried to get a reservation when my grandparent...

You may remember that my personal challenge for this year is to visit 6 restaurants on the " Best New Restaurants in St. Louis ...

For our first 2012: Eat and Repeat challenge of the year, I found myself at one of my all-time favorite restaurants in St. Louis. Yes, w...