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Amy Schumer Learns To Cook
Its Friday, our kids finished quarantine homeschool this week (HOORAY!), and we have a fun new food-TV recommendation for you: “Amy Schumer Learns To Cook”. Who else follows @amyschumer on Instagram? Anyone else been obsessively saving the recipes that Amy Schumer has been posting during quarantine from her new show “Amy Schumer Learns To Cook”? Oh, just me? And, spoiler alert, all the “Amy Schumer Learns To Cook” recipes have been posted on the Food Network’s site linked here. Amy Schumer has produced a fun new show live from quarantine for the Food Network with her chef husband Chris Fischer. Each episode of “Amy Schumer Learns To Cook” starts with Amy making…
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The Perfect Summer Meal
At this point, you might have figured out that cooking and sharing meals is a major part of our family dynamic! Mallory and I shared dinner responsibilities last Sunday night – Mallory made the salad and I prepared the steak. Meals are way more enjoyable when you are only responsible for one of the dishes! We sat outside with a glass of rosé and this meal and it felt like we were truly kicking off summer. Now only if our weather would cooperate… Here is what we made for dinner: Mallory is a bit of a couscous salad connoisseur and this Real Simple Spinach Couscous recipe is one of the very best. With minimal ingredients…
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SHE CAN & We Can Do Better Frosé
We spent last week listening and are excited to continue learning and hopefully share a little of the knowledge we gain with you. It seemed appropriate to come back with a new wine recommendation and Frosé recipe from the McBride Sisters – a Black-owned, women-owned, and family-owned company. The first Black Sisters to create and grow a wine company, McBride Sisters is now the largest African-American-owned wine company in the United States. Because the McBride Sisters write far more eloquently than we do, here is what the Sisters have to say about their wine company: When we entered the winemaking business, we knew we would face adversity––breaking into a male-dominated industry as two Black women is NOT…
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Jack’s Sprinkle
Friday is my nephew Jack’s first birthday! Please join me in wishing a happy early birthday to Jack! As we posted yesterday, leading up to his special day we are revisiting the fun celebrations we threw in his honor prior to his birth. Today we are sharing the details of the baby sprinkle I cohosted with Mallory’s friend Hillary in honor of the future Jack. What is a baby sprinkle? A baby sprinkle is a type of shower to celebrate a family’s second child. Instead of an elaborate event where a first-time mom is showered with gifts, it’s a more casual, lower-key gathering where a mom-to-be gets sprinkled with just the necessities. In…
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JACK’S GENDER REVEAL PARTY
Mallory’s youngest son Jack is turning one this Friday! In honor of his coming birthday, we thought it would be fun to revisit some of the fun celebrations we had leading up to his birth. In early December 2018, Mallory’s sister-in-law Anna and I co-hosted a gender reveal brunch at Magnuson Café & Brewery for her and Chris. Have you visited the café in Magnuson Park yet? With terrific views of Lake Washington and a large outdoor deck, the brewery is an excellent option to sample beer in the sunshine on a warm afternoon. While Seattle weather in early December does not lend itself to an outdoor celebration, the café worked with us…
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Peanut Butter Bread
Need an alternative to all the banana bread you have been baking during quarantine? Still cannot find any yeast at the grocery store? We have the recipe for you! Peanut butter bread from a 1932 Five Roses Flour cookbook has been a resurgence during quarantine and has gone viral on the internet. I first saw this recipe being made by @margaux_laskey on New York Times Cooking’s Instagram stories (@nytcooking). Then I found this article on the peanut butter bread posted in the Today Show’s food section. According to both these sources, this recipe resurfaced on Reddit in a section entitled “Old Recipes”, where the community shares recipes from their families or old books. With recipes…
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An Easy Weeknight Family Dinner: Japanese Ground Pork & Rice (or noodle) Bowl (Soboro Donburi)
Today, we have a fantastic, quick, and family-friendly weeknight dinner for you that I discovered on i am a food blog: Soboro Donburi. A classic Japanese dish, Soboro is ground meat (this recipe uses ground pork, but usually its chicken and any ground meat will do) broken up and cooked with seasonings such as soy sauce, mirin, and sake. Donburi just means that something is served over rice as a rice bowl. This version is both sweet and savory and can be prepared from start to finish in less than 30 minutes. Each time we have made this recipe, I have replaced rice with fresh yakisoba noodles and added a bunch of stir-fried…
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How to Throw a Virtual Bridal Shower
Last week, Mallory wrote about how to make a graduate feel special in this season without proms, all-night parties, commencement speeches, graduation ceremonies, and mortarboard tosses. But how do we celebrate our 2020 brides and grooms that have had to reschedule weddings and wedding-related festivities? Their disappointment must be truly immense let alone the costs and difficulties associated with rescheduling or coming up with alternatives. Yesterday, we helped throw our future sister-in-law Betsy a virtual bridal shower. She and our brother Will are getting married this August. COVID-19 has derailed their originally planned bachelor and bachelorette parties, showers, honeymoon plans, and more. And Betsy has handled the unknown and last-minute changes…
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COCOA ESPRESSO MARTINI
Apparently when Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson get together, they make cocoa espresso martinis. Prior to this week I had never had a chocolate martini, but heck, when two of the world’s most beautiful woman make a cocktail together, you have to try it, am I right? Moreover, its chocolate which is my kryptonite, and on goop, which obviously means its healthy. This cocktail is good. Terrifically good. So good, that in the name of recipe testing I have made Goop’s Cocoa Espresso Martini three nights in the row. So good that Ryan wasn’t even embarrassed drinking the martini in front of his five college fraternity brothers on a Wednesday Zoom call. So…
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Writing Thank you Cards With Kids
Whoever came up with the saying “Mom Life is the Best Life” forgot about the part where moms have to help their children write thank you notes. One of my least favorite parts of parenting, thank you note writing with Sam and Emma is a chore that requires a significant amount of patience that I do not often possess. It goes something like this: Mom, how you do you spell? Mom, is this right? Mom, can you read this? Mom, I cannot read your writing (because at this point I have resorted to using scratch paper). Mom, my hand hurts. Mom, I need an eraser. Mom, I made a mistake.…
