What Kara Bakes & Other Bits

When I started this blog, I also said I planned on including updates, so I suppose I'll consider this my first partial update.  In a...

The weekend before my big move, I knew it was the last time that I would be able to bake for our friends so I wanted to go all out.  I baked...

Yesterday I had an informal meeting/interview with a potential employer.  It was scheduled for late afternoon, downtown Chicago.  I decided ...

I made this recipe a couple weeks ago.  After I tasted it, I kept thinking how it would be such a great side dish to bring to a football par...

Okay, so I've seen a pin floating around Pinterest about breaking in new shoes.  But I've never actually put it on one of my 'bo...

I'm currently job searching.  And my mom of course works.  Therefore, I feel that dinner is my task.  So to mix up the online job hunt d...

The weather only got into the 60's yesterday and barely touched a breezy 70 degrees today.  That can only mean one thing: fall is near a...