Please remind me to never egg wash with yolk if I’m going to take photos.  The yellow sheen is just not very appealing.  I like my “before baking” photos.  But, the after baking photos I hate.  Actually, I bet my after photos were a lighting issue as well as a bright yellow egg yolk issue….

After I posted about my lamb, my husband’s editor and our family friend, Kelly flooded my inbox with lamb recipes.  She is very helpful when it comes to scouting the internet, and her own personal library, for great recipes.  I looked over all she sent and I finally decided on a simple, classicly flavored, meatball to…

Open browser, click.  Open Julie’s Jazz, click.  A freezer full of lamb. Open browser, click.  Open Julie’s Jazz, click. A freezer full of lamb. Open browser, click. Open Julie’s Jazz, click.  A freezer full of lamb.  Open browser, click. Open Julie’s Jazz, click.  A freezer full of lamb.   You get the idea.  One would think…

My diet is better but my running has gone south.  In my last post I mentioned going on a 12 mile run.  It turned into a 9.5 mile run.  I kind of just fell apart at 8 miles. I took this weekend off from long runs and next weekend will try 12 again (I still…

My granny, my three year old (Will), and I went out to lunch at a super cute little lunch joint in our downtown area about a month ago.  I had this amazing grilled tuna sandwich.  I don’t normally order tuna salad anywhere because it’s usually a dill pickle relish/onion mess on bread that gets soggy…

When I was pregnant with Will (my 3 year old) Ben and I went to Subway nearly once a week for dinner.  I always ordered a Chicken & Bacon Ranch Melt Sub (along with like 10 chocolate chip cookies) with extra pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, pickled jalapenos, and extra ranch sauce. On top…