tonight, we dine in... our kitchen!

so for those of you who know rylan and i, you know we don't cook. or bake. or spend much time in a kitchen. but god knows we can eat like world class champions. well i'm proud to tell you that tonight, we baked. in true southern tradition, we made paula deen's key lime pie with meringue on top. let me start at the beginnin' fo' y'all...

we were looking through our cookbooks (yes, i know. it doesnt make sense why two people who don't cook have cookbooks, but they look good sitting on the shelf in the kitchen!) trying to find something to cook for dinner. it's usually useless for us to do this, and just makes us crave something from a restaurant... well we still didn't find anything for dinner BUT one of my coworkers had been talking about some icing or cake frosting thing all day, so i started looking through the dessert sections. rylan's not a big fan of key lime pie, but i loooove it. well for whatever reason he thought he might like it if i made it (i know, right? how sweet. i guess...) after one trip to publix and several phone calls to my mom (domestic goddess) we felt comfortable in our decision to attempt the impossible.


ok, long story short, i baked the pie. we had to remake the meringue, cause that was freaking hard, but i opened up the oven door, and im not too humble to admit that marie calendar herself couldn't have made a more beautiful pie! and did i mention that it was edible?! cause it's so good and im excited for breakfast (or perhaps a late night snack).

i can now officially make four things:
1. macaroni and cheese (yes, from a blue box)
2. cupcakes (funfetti)
3. peppermint bark
4. key lime pie

paying the bills doesn't make me a real adult, but apparently baking pie does...