Poco-Cocoa

Some days I don’t realize that I haven’t had a proper lunch until after I’ve had eleventy snacks. At least my snacks were mostly healthy? 😀

I saw someone on YouTube make a green pea-avocado toast, so I wanted to try it. It was good, but the peas made the whole thing pretty sweet. I am lucky enough to have two bags of frozen, uncooked tamales from my mama. I steamed them up in the InstantPot, and they are AMAZING. I […]

Dear Husband, Thank you for loving me, even when I’m sad or angry or worried or stressed or nauseous or in The Hole. I don’t know how you do it, but I’m so glad you do. Dear COVID-19, You suck. That is all. Dear BTS, Thank you for providing music and stories and photos and […]

It just doesn’t feel like we’ve really returned to ATX until we go to Pool Burger. 🙂 They have the best burgers – plus crinkle fries! And really, really good pineapple lemonade. Any time the weather is super nice, and it’s midday, and a burger sounds remotely good, this is where we go. 😎

There are a billion versions of the grain bowl / Buddha bowl / nourish bowl / veggie bowl. This one is our current favorite. It’s mostly based on this version from Good Eatings – but basically, it’s: A big wide bowl, smeared with whatever hummus we’re into at the moment Roasted veggies (tossed with oil, […]

Every Christmas, my mama makes tamales. It’s just kind of an expected thing, and I never thought twice about it, until recent years. My mom is now 71 years old. I have no idea how that happened – she’s still just my young, amazing, strong mama. But 71 is not 31. And making tamales isn’t […]

I totally missed posting about the new year. At the last minute, we decided to stay home, make dinner, and see if we could peep some fireworks from our balcony. We had no groceries. So we raided our pantry and fridge and came up with what turned out to be a fantastic dinner. I whipped […]

Welp, that was a crazy start to 2020. Somehow January seems like it’s been 87 months long, full of stress and travel and surprises – and it’s only January 18! Such is life. I thought I should post a bit about Vixen’s Wedding, since we are there so often that the bartenders know our drink […]

One time, I saw a gorgeous photo of a dish on Tumblr or Pinterest or Instagram or some other place (I have since found the photo on 101 Cookbooks, of course – one of my favorite blogs), and I didn’t have any info about it – it just looked delicious. So I decided to try […]