This is the last of the hotel-cooking posts, since we’re now staying in our house!

I wanted to make some sort of breaded chicken, and usually I do that with flour and/or cornmeal seasoned with my …

If you know much about me, you probably know that I LOVE the show Scrubs. And so does my guy.
And Turk in the show loves “brinner.” And so does my guy. According to them, when …

On Sunday, for my birthday, my sweetheart got me some veggie seedlings, pots, and potting mix. I couldn’t be more excited!
We were thinking about digging up part of the yard to make a “real” garden, …

Yesterday was my birthday. I turned 24! Woo hoo!
And today is JoyfulAbode.com’s birthday. Check out the first-ever real post, from May 28th, 2007… Desk Makeover.

I didn’t really do anything to commemorate JoyfulAbode.com’s birthday but maybe …

I never did post pictures of my craft area in Milton, did I?
I loved the color of the walls and the curtains (they were like that when we got there)… perfect. And they coordinated perfectly …

This was back in Milton, not in the hotel room… though we have all of the ingredients and if we wanted to re-create it here, we certainly could!

It’s pretty self-explanatory… the secret in its deliciousness …

I’d call this a halfway-ERROR.
I liked the pasta with all of the ingredients except for the cubed steak… which in my opinion turned out tough and not delicious at all. The guy liked it though.
We’re …

This was a VERY tasty dinner… also prepared in our humble hotel suite. we were lucky enough to have an oven in ours, but I’m sure this is adaptable to a stovetop or even a …

Since we’re currently “camping out” in a hotel suite, cooking must be kept SIMPLE. We don’t have all of our usual ingredients, utensils, pots, and pans…
So chicken quesadillas were a good option for  lunches! I …

We’re here in Meridian, Mississippi. We got in on Friday, after driving through the rain from Milton, FL. We checked into the bachelor’s quarters (sort of like a hotel on base, aka the Q) and …

Things that have been going on around the Joyful Abode:
My friend Liz told me that I needed to cut back my avocado plant (It was about a foot tall, maybe taller, with big healthy leaves) …

This was a simple dinner I threw together one night out of things we already had. I didn’t follow a recipe, but here’s how things came together.

2 bell peppers
1 box of “dirty” rice mix
2 Cajun …