Homemade Girl Scout Samoas!

It's girl scout cookie season! And because I'm broke, funemployed, and have some time on my hands, I decided to save $3.50 and make my own Samoas...

Shrimp Broth Pasta

My aunt makes the best pastas. So I took on what she deemed as her "easiest pasta recipe". Halfway through, I learned that "easy" required being hunched over for a long amount of time peeling and de-veining cold, gray, slimy, little shrimp and nearly cutting my finger off while chopping a tomato... Definitely not what expected "easy" to be, however, in the end, I appreciated it all. As someone who usually buys some Ragu, adds a bunch of crap to it, then calls it a day, I am proud to say that this pasta sauce was made from scratch! AND it included homegrown Basil and Parsley from my Aunt's backyard herb garden! Boo ya.

The cookies that shocked me

When I was a little kid, I hated having anything for dessert that had to do with lemons. I never understood why people enjoyed sweets such as lemon meringue pie, lemon pound cake, lemon tarts, and lemon cookies. Lemon was bitter and sour and as far as I knew, the only thing lemony I enjoyed eating were Lemonheads. I don't quite remember what turned me off, but I have always steered away from eating any kind of lemon sweet...up until this past weekend.