Empty Calories

Blech

Mardi pardi season is in full swing. To be honest, I've always thought of King Cake as extra doughy circular shaped hot dog buns covered in copious amounts of bizarrely colored sugar and equally sugary icings. Now, for some reason am craving some of these pecan and cream cheese stuffed circular chewy hot dog rolls! What is wrong with me!

Tasted Like an Apple Pie

For tonight, am searching all over town to try to find apple pie moonshine; everywhere is out it seems like though! I won't really have time today, but here is the recipe I'll use when I do make it myself (with the Jake Owen song blaring on repeat). Definitely agree with less sugar like used here, too.

Update: went with Appleton's and spiced hot cider; NO ONE HAS APPLE PIE MOONSHINE IN ANNAPOLIS WHYYYYYYY

Newport

One of Many Trees at Viking

Finally home. Newport was beautiful, but it was too short and another week would have been so nice. I'm such a nomad, staying in one place for even a few months gets old so it's always nice to get away from home. And Annapolis is so beautiful at Christmas, but for some reason the Garden Club hasn't done the usual full-scale decorating downtown yet, so comparatively Newport was a wonderland. There was a long North Sails talk on the Volvo to sit through (which was awesome, but I was rightttt under the AC and I felt like I could relate to how cold it can get out there completely) a dinner party after, and we went to Bristol to visit IYRS which was really interesting. Laforge went all out with lights, and sitting there for dinner the first night felt like being under a tree (for some reason my favorite spot ever since I was little) and I would easily camp out there a la Night at the Museum if I could.
This morning we drove out along Ocean Drive, and it is so different from here. We have water, but you never see quite such a large expanse of it as you do off the cliff, and it feels so much wilder there than here. Even with the mansions, cliff walk feels completely untamed if you look out from town and down at the breakers.

Laforge

Bacon Deviled Eggs

Poor quality iPhone pic, but from now on am only making deviled eggs with bacon. Too good.

Places that Really Should Deliver

Pumpkin Stuffed French Toast

So sick! Not fun. I never eat gluten except the occasional beer, but all I want is for Miss Shirley's to deliver me some french toast. So I could have at least a few bites. All I want... oh well, back to sleep to dream gluten-y, sugary dreams and get this weird craving off my mind.