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Mack’s Roasted Tomato Sauce
Its the height of tomato season and I would be remiss to not share the recipe for my favorite easy homemade roasted tomato sauce. This is the perfect recipe for this time of year when tomatoes are inexpensive yet flavorful in the grocery stores and your garden likely has more cherry tomatoes than you know what to do with! This time last year, I made this roasted tomato sauce for the first time because I had accidentally let a couple large heirloom tomatoes get too ripe to use for a caprese salad but, given how much they had cost at the grocery store, I did not want to let them…
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Karlie Kloss x Milk Bar = Perfect 10 Cookies
Its Friday and you need a cookie to celebrate. And not just any cookie, a Perfect 10 cookie dreamed up by Momofuku Milk Bar and a supermodel Karlie Kloss also known as Karlie’s Kookies. Karlie Kloss recently posted her recipe for Perfect 10 “kookies” on Instagram (@karliekloss) complete with IGTV Video. The Perfect 10 cookies are delicious – we highly recommend you give them a try! Admittedly I was skeptical, how good could these cookies actually be? The Perfect 10 cookie recipe is gluten-free and vegan and purportedly enjoyed regularly by a supermodel. But if there is any chance eating Karlie’s Kookies will make my legs look like hers or,…
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Salami Ragu
To celebrate the fact that its Friday, we have a new pasta recipe for you today: Salami Ragu! Ever since travelling with Ryan to Venice through Stirred Travel, we have been following @rosiemackeanpastaqueen. Rosie was one of the incredible chefs during our amazing Italian culinary adventure and the pasta pictures she posts on her Instagram account are nothing short of mouthwatering. When Rosie recently posted a recipe for Salami Ragu, I could not resist giving it a try. It was absolutely delicious! We highly recommend you follow her Instagram account for some incredible pasta recipes and, in the words of Rosie, get stuck into her Salami Ragu as soon as…
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Parent Pops
We made it to Friday and, whew, its been a week! To top it off, we learned yesterday afternoon that Sam and Emma will not be physically headed back to school in September and instead restarting full-time digital learning. So I decided mom needed boozy popsicles STAT and, after tasting our frozen creations, we decided we had to share… After lots of taste-testing with multiple taste-testers (funny how easy it was to find volunteers for this job!), we came up with four varieties of what we are calling our “Parent Pops”: red wine fudgsicles, rosé pops, Corona popsicles, and margarita popsicles. This weekend is supposed to get warm again, so…
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Got Zucchini?
Its zucchini season folks! This past weekend, my brother Will brought two HUGE zucchini over to the house that his colleague had grown and shared with the office. His question, “What do you do with zucchini?”, inspired this post. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the record for world’s biggest zucchini belongs to a zucchini grown by John (Giovanni) Scozzafavain in his garden in Niagara Falls, Ontario in 2014. His zucchini measured a whopping 8 ft 3.3 inches long (2.52 m). When you have that much zucchini, you have to get creative on how to use it. We are talking way more than zoodles, people. Here are two creative zucchini-based…
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Peach-O-Rama
Each July, Metropolitan Market celebrates “Peach-O-Rama” (yes, I rolled my eyes too when I first heard the name) when they bring massive amounts of ripe, ready-to-eat peaches, into their grocery stores. Metropolitan Market’s Peach-O-Rama event is now more than twenty years old now, and permeates not only their produce department, but also their bakery, deli and prepared foods. Every year, we not only look forward to being greeted at the front of the store with slices of sweet, ripe peaches to sample (remember when things such as samples existed?!?) but also the store’s ready-to-grill marinated chili peach pork tenderloin in their butcher shop case that they offer during Peach-O-Rama. So…
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Celebrate the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale with a Vine Street Cocktail
TGIF! We made it! And we have the perfect Friday night COVID activity for you to celebrate with! Make yourself a Nordstrom Vine Street Cocktail, get comfy on the couch, and browse Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale items that are available to preview starting today (July 24). For the first time due to COVID-19 and in lieu of a print catalog, Nordstrom is giving giving everyone the ability to preview all sale items online. This way, you have plenty of time to save your favorites to your Wish List and check out faster when it’s time to shop. Plus you cannot get into any trouble because the Anniversary Sale items are not…
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Spiced “Lamb” Flatbread
Happy Monday to everyone! Are you on the ball and already done with your meal-planning for the week? Or, are you like me this Monday, and wondering what you are going to cook for dinner because you spent the weekend playing in the finally-arrived(!!) Seattle sunshine instead of doing anything productive like grocery shopping or laundry? Ugh. Well, if you are in the latter group, we have a quick and delicious idea dinner recipe for you that will hopefully make your Monday a little easier: Metropolitan Market’s Spiced Lamb Flatbread. Yum! Living only a few blocks away from Sandpoint’s Metropolitan Market, this grocery store is a frequent stop if we…
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Easy Ice Cream Cake
Monday was Ryan’s birthday and there is nothing he likes more than mint chocolate chip ice cream. Every year, in celebration of his birthday, the kids and I surprise him with some sort of chocolaty-mint dessert. In addition to homemade masterpieces, past years have included, Jenny Cookies’ mint chocolate chip cake, High 5 Pie’s raspberry mint chocolate whip pie and Trophy Cupcakes’ chocolate chip mint cupcakes. This year I was admittedly behind the eight ball for Ryan’s birthday dessert. We had been in Lake Chelan the prior week and spent the weekend camping (see post here), but NYT Cooking came to my rescue. On Sunday, NYT Cooking fortuitously posted on…
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Camping With Kids
This past weekend we took Sam & Emma camping with some close family friends at Birch Bay State Park just outside of Bellingham, Washington. When I mentioned my weekend plans to an office colleague, her response was “You are going camping? In a tent? I took you as more of a five star resort sort of gal.” Truth be told, yes, given the choice of vacations, I would rather be lounging poolside, cocktail-in-hand than camping in a state park with mosquitoes and no running water. Sam and Emma, however, absolutely love to camp and we do our absolute best to make our meals campfire gourmet. So with the tips below…
