November 2021

The End of our Culinary Cooking Challenge

Featured by Tally Ragsdale, posted in Baking

I can’t believe it. It’s over. Back in February my sister and I decided to go on a crazy culinary journey and now that journey for the timing being is at an end.

I won’t do a recap of every week here as I did that at 20th week marker(read here) but I will go week by week and do our top pick for the week. As a farewell to all the goodies…

Week #1 California

Week #2 Lemon

Week #3 Favorites

Week #4 Soul Food

Buttermilk Biscuits, Sausage Gravy and Fried Apples

Week #5 Jane Austen

Week #6 Redwall

Week #7 Coffee

Week #8 Vegan

Week #9 Italian

Week #10 Vietnamese

Week #11 BBQ

Week #12 Mom’s Picks

Week #13 Harry Potter

Week #14 Caribbean

Week #15 Icelandic

Week #16 Tay’s Birthday

Week #17 Non-break

Week #18 Hungary

Week #19 Blueberry

Week #20 Tay Cooks

Week #21 Pizza

Week #22 Swedish

Week #23 Scottish

Week #24 French

Week #25 Picnic

Week #26 Sleepy Hallow

And that is it! Whew! What an adventure. Thank you so much for joining us on this incredible adventure. And our adventures aren’t over. Stay tuned for an extra special announcement!

Lots of love,

Tally

Texas Trip Part 2

Featured by Tally Ragsdale, posted in Travel

And we are back for more fun down South! We left you in our last post with some very yummy bbq. Next day we took a day trip down to San Antonio to see the Alamo.

This was arguably our favorite part of the trip. It was so beautiful and peaceful. I mean it was crowded and there were people everywhere but the whole mood around the church was so respectful. It reminded me a lot of our visit to Westminster Abbey.

Then we strolled along the River Walk and had some lunch!

After that we booked it back up to Fort Worth and crashed in our hotel.

The next day brought an early morning trip to the Fort Worth Zoo. Guys this zoo was fantastic! If you even remotely have the chance to visit you should totally do it. The animals were so well cared for and the zoo was well maintained.

After lunch we headed north of the city to the Stockyards.

We ended the night with a steak dinner and another movie and crash at the hotel. The next day we flew home. It was a great trip!

Trip Review: Dallas, Fort Worth TX

Featured by Tally Ragsdale, posted in Travel

This trip was amazing! The weather was beautiful the entire we were there. The food was amazing and of course we got to do all the things!

Our trip included a visit to Fort Worth, Dallas, and San Antonio. We went to the Depository, the Dallas Science Museum, the Alamo, Fort Worth Zoo and Stockyards. A very packed trip as per usual when I plan them. I am always very ambitious.

Me and my brother’s hound. Isn’t he gorgeous?

We also of course visited my big brother(the whole point of the trip) and his school TCU.

Fort Worth was very pretty! And like I said earlier the weather was perfect. Mid-70’s during the day and nights got down to the mid-40’s.

And then there was the ginormous monster that was Dallas, TX. And we’ll have to do the rest of the picture recap tomorrow! See ya then!

I’ll leave you with BBQ we enjoyed in Dallas.

Where have you been?

Featured by Tally Ragsdale, posted in Lifestyle, Nannyhood

Did I drop off the face of the earth? I might as well have- I am so sorry I have been absent from the blog scene. My life went from on direction to another and another in a matter of weeks and I am still reeling. But this is my attempt to catch up and put all my runaway thoughts in order.

First things first…

The last you guys heard from me was that my sister and I were taking a trip to Dallas/Fort Worth to visit our brother. And that trip(though is had it’s ups and downs) was fantastic success. And I will be doing a recap of it next week. So stayed tuned!

Second!

I will be doing a wrap-up next Monday, the challenge is coming to an end. I will be replacing it with a new and exciting content but I simply don’t have time for it. I will of course still cook and bake for fun. But for now the Culinary Cooking Challenge is on an indefinite hold.

Third-

That’s right I am starting a bakery!!!! (Internal freak-out) Right now I am strictly doing local pies for Thanksgiving, but I am opening my bakery’s full menu(breads, rolls, cookies, scones, muffins, hand pies, etc.) up in December. So if you guys live in the south-Eastern WI area get excited! I will be doing a full post in the coming weeks.

Lastly… Er fourthly…

(More internal screaming!!! And maybe some external) This rapid development is what really threw me for a loop! My parents(who are moving to WI) and I bought a house together! They’re gonna live upstairs and I am going to live downstairs. And I am so excited and so happy! And I just can’t wait!!

I know that’s a lot- it’s a lot for me too. Just a lot. (Stress and excitement in equal measure) Anyway obviously more will come in the coming weeks but yes- God is good and moving and just all kinds of things. Until next time…

Lots of love,

Tally