Today in The Liz List… my product of the week (the SOFTEST and BEST loungewear set I’ve ever owned), a few beautiful home tours (including celeb James Van Der Beek’s), links to two new cookbooks I just purchased, Chipotle’s guacamole recipe, why we should stop referring to our pop culture pleasures as “guilty”, pics of Kylie Jenner’s new $36.5 million mansion, Brene Brown on the danger of “comparative suffering” (SO good), and more.
Read MoreY’all I am laughing so hard @ myself right now because I know this iPhone photo does NOT make these mashed potatoes look very appetizing. In fact, I considered sharing this recipe without a photo at all, but ultimately I decided it was important to give you a reference point for how they’re supposed to look when finished. I’m not a photographer or a chef or a food blogger… I just really love good food. Basically it’s amateur hour over here, and I’m hoping you’ll look past that fact and trust that I’d never share a substandard recipe on this blog. All that being said… this is my grandmother’s mashed potato recipe.
Read MoreA life update, a full construction project status report, and our travel plans for next week PLUS some biz news, a gorgeous home tour, a bomb salad recipe, how friendship changes with age, and a link to view a commercial that was recently shot in our home.
Read MoreThere’s this strange period in Texas when football season has begun, pumpkin spiced everything has hit the shelves, Halloween is around the corner, and all of us so desperately want it to be fall that in an effort to mentally ditch summer we - perhaps prematurely - decorate our front porches with mums and hay as if we can somehow persuade Mother Nature to bring us the first cold front early this year. All this despite the fact that it’s still teetering around 100 degrees outside. We’re in between. And unfortunately, this time of year - this in between - lasts long enough here that it honestly could be considered a season itself.
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