It’s a Sunday, and Sunday at home means sleeping in. We’ve been traveling so much lately, so slowly waking up in our quiet apartment and staying in bed as long as we please feels like the best kind of indulgence.

I stretch and head out to water the garden. There’s something so peaceful about beginning my days watching water fall onto plants, with the city waking up below me. Starting the day with an exhale makes my small corner of the …

Most newlyweds have a few wedding items decorating their home long after the wedding madness has died down: framed photos, an album, perhaps a dried bouquet. My wedding souvenirs are a little more… unusual. Here’s what reminds me of our big day, day after day:

One of my favorite details from our wedding, the infamous fabric pomanders, still live on! Perched on top of my desk, these puffy balls of fun look down at me every day while I’m …

Since we last saw my urban garden, I had herbs and veggies coming in nicely. Since then, my plants have been growing like wildfire! It tickles me to no end to see all the green out there. So much so, in fact, that I expanded the garden with the help of my mom, who I like to call “The Plant Whisperer.” My mom oversaw the planting of loads of flowers and helped put together a few new pots. As the …

I love eating substantial salads in the summertime. Sometimes it’s just too hot to want anything more than cooling greens and a refreshing cocktail.  Here’s one of my favorite recipes that revitalizes and nourishes all at once, courtesy of zesty orange and so-good-for-you-it-hurts farro. Bonus: this salad packs such a big punch nutritionally that you might as well have two of those refreshing cocktails. Go ahead, you deserve it!

Citrus Farro Salad
(Adapted from Heidi Swanson)

Ingredients

- 4 to 6 big handfuls of …

A quick word about mahi before we dive into the recipe, because I do love trivia. Did you know that mahi-mahi is a new name for what has historically been called a dolphin fish? It’s true. I remember learning this one summer in the Outer Banks and being terrified that the gorgeous dolphins I was watching swim and jump in the distance were the same ones being served up at my aunt’s restaurant. But never fear, Flipper fans, the dolphin …

After the fantastic advice you all gave me on urban gardening, I thought it only fair to report back on my progress. I’ve devoted one side of our patio to my slightly-greener-than-before thumb, and have had a ball trotting out there to snip fresh herbs while I’m cooking. Here’s how it looks from afar:

What you see here in the inedible category are four types of dahlias, a gardenia bush, and two decorative shrubs (I cannot wait to start smelling gardenias …

You read about it on EAD first, of course… but now you can read about our nearly one-year-old wedding in Brides Magazine, too! We’re one of the May 2010 issue’s Real Weddings, and I’ve gotta say, it’s a little bit crazy to see yourself in print in a national magazine! But yep, that sure sounds like us…

And whoa, there we are!

I know our wedding wasn’t a sparkly traditional wedding – that’s exactly why I loved it so much. Everything about …

One of my first posts for EADL detailed the Recession Kitchen, listing my favorite double-duty kitchen tools that give the most bang for the buck. Not every gadget can be so well-rounded, though. Some tools do just one task, but do it fabulously. While perhaps not on your first round of gadget shopping, these items easily make Round II. Here are my favorite unashamedly single-purpose kitchen gadgets:

Citrus Juicer

Sure, it takes up more space than you might like in the drawer. …

In the excitement over picking up our lives and moving to a brand new city, a big event on our calendars got a tad overshadowed for a while. Now, though (thanks largely to the nice tax lady at H&R Block), our excitement is back in full-swing: we’re going to Europe in six weeks!

One of T’s sisters is getting married in Ljubljana, Slovenia in early May. She and her fiancé (who is an old college teammate of T’s, so they go …

Spring has sprung… in my head, at least! We had legitimate warm-ish sun last week, so it must really be here soon, right? I hope so, because I’m itching to get my spring on. It started with these gorgeous yellow ranunculus, which just scream spring to me:

Then sun turned to springlike showers, so I succumbed to the siren song of this trench.

Perfect for early spring, wouldn’t you say? So with allergy meds in hand and a true “spring” in my …