Photo: Thierry Lebraly

Happy New Year's Eve, y'all! You guys have anything special planned for tonight? We're going to be hanging with fam, noshing on black eyed peas (a good luck tradition in our fam, and I don't dare challenge it because "I'm not superstitious, just a little stitious" - high five if you know that quote!),  'cheersing' 2012 and welcoming 2013 with bubbly, making out inappropriately with the hubs at midnight (due to aforementioned bubbly)...you know, the usual low-key New Year's Eve celebrations. ;)

2012 was awesome. Homeownership, my baptism, a new job at a great little PR firm, new friends, fun trips to visit family and welcoming them all to Austin for the first time, lots of nieces and nephews welcomed into the world, fab collaborations, blog adventures and beyond. Can't wait to see what 2013 has in store. Xoxoxo!

Sorry for the double food post, but I'm not really that sorry....because why be sorry about anything when Nutella is involved? The hubs and I headed over to Costco to do some grocery shopping, and somehow a pack of double the trouble Nutella landed in our cart. What's a gal to do when the weather outside is sub-arctic? And where is a sarcasm font when you need it? No, but really, it's effing cold here in Texas. I busted out the ol' furry trapper hat again and have been wearing it around non-stop. Anyways.....the answer is make a cup of steamy Nutella hot chocolate, henceforth dubbed a cup o' heaven. Screw a cup o' jo....Nutella is where it's at. Keep reading after the jump to get the recipe...

Hello, darlings! Hope you all had a very merry Christmas. We were out at my parent's house for the holidays, and passed the days basically cooking, eating, snacking, complaining about how much we ate, singing Christmas songs and watching movies.  Oh yes, we opened presents too....huzzah! Amongst the glorious gifts were bags and bags of freshly picked Meyer lemons and Ruby Red grapefruits, thanks to our family friends Juan and Mary (thanks again, you two!). I was flipping through a great new cookbook that my mom got me called "The Spice Kitchen," and stumbled across this recipe for broiled grapefruit topped with brown sugar, cinnamon and cumin. At first, I was all "ish don't think so" but gave it a try anyways. This easy and fast dessert absolutely rocked my world. My taste buds did a backflip when I took a taste of that first scoop - it's INSANELY DELICIOUS and pretty healthy too! Keep reading after the jump to get the recipe...