This email bubbled up in my inbox recently:

I just got your EHH cookbook and the 3 day cleanse. I am excited to try these but have never really cooked or bought groceries really - sad but true.... I have grown up on McDonalds and tv dinners but want to change in a big way. Anyway, I just went to the store and bought flour and baking powder and grains and such. Do you know the best way …

Studies show time and time again that distractions are costly (the email "ding" alone costs $70 billion a year in lost revenues) (source). 

Even if you're not a business owner, this is still a scary thought as an employee. Not getting enough done can mean late nights at work, taking work home, working on the weekend or worse ---- missing out on that raise or promotion. (Or still even worse, the company laying people off because profits …

Okay my crafty Herbies, I have an awesome Sunday project for you!

As soon as as saw these mitts and the elephant pot holders on my pal Ruby's Facebook page I immediately started begging her to make me my own set.

(Thankfully she did!)

This is the elephant image Ruby used for the potholders. 

This is the image for the heart.

Ruby says, "the round is like the heart, just use your own lid for the size."

I love …

You've got questions...

Q: What brand of liquid smoke do you use? 

I've used a number of different brands. I generally buy whatever is available to me. I've used Colgin's liquid smokes (they have different "flavors") and Wright's, plus others I can't recall. Any supermarket should have it.

Q: I'm allergic to quinoa. Any suggestions?

It would depend on the recipe. If the quinoa isn't being used *in* something (say, *in* a bean burger recipe — like these burgers …

Happy Nat'l Taco Day! 

Mexican food was one of those things I found a deep love for much later in life. Growing up, I didn't eat a lot of Mexican cuisine, except for bean burritos at Taco Bell during high school. (All the cool kids skipped their lunch hour to go to Taco Bell, didn't you know ;) lol).

I'm pretty sure I never had chips and salsa, guacamole, or fajitas until I met my husband in college. (Scott loves …