Recipes
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Superfood Pesto
We love pesto around here – whether it’s on pasta, veggies, pizza or eggs! I used to make pesto at home all the time and then when Trader Joe’s came out with their Vegan Kale Pesto I guess I got little lazy! My cousin told me last weekend how she makes it all the time for her kids and reminded me about basil being a superfood. So, I basically couldn’t wait to make it and it was literally the first dinner I made when we got home. I looked up a bunch of different pesto recipes and came up with my own superfood pesto that has extra sneaky greens and…
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Pasta Salad for the Win!
Last year I made a habit of posting pasta recipes on Fridays. Today, I am bringing the tradition back with two pasta salads that you really should make this weekend. Apparently nothing says TGIF like a noodle! Mallory and I spent last weekend with our families in Lake Chelan. Our grandparents built the cabin our parents now own on the lake and its not without its quirks. One of which we teasing refer to as its “one butt kitchen”. Its teeny, only room for one rear-end to be cooking, which is challenging when you are trying to prepare dinner for our large tribe. As a result, we try and get…
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I love you S’more
Who doesn’t love a freshly toasted S’more? Classic s’mores are hard to beat, but let’s be real, we aren’t picky when it comes to a chocolate, graham cracker and marsh mellow combination. But s’mores lakeside with a glass of Washington red? Well friends, it doesn’t get any better than that. We had such a great weekend in Lake Chelan drinking all the wine and eating all things S’mores. But what’s a girl to do when you forgot you trusty indoor s’mores maker and there is a burn ban in effect? You make S’more Rice Krispies Treats and S’mores Jars – no campfire required. Find these delicious recipes below – along…
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Black & Blue Muffins
I baked! And yes, that’s me wearing a sweater with blackberries on it, in front of a blackberry bush, with a blackberry muffin in my hand. Totally normal because its officially blackberry season in Seattle folks. And with the onset of blackberry season, I start dreaming about PCC’s Black & Blue Muffins. Except, PCC stopped making them and while I’m not necessarily upset that my several muffin a week habit came to a halt, the Black & Blue Muffins were so GOOD. So this year, with the onset of blackberry season, I was on a mission to recreate PCC’s Black & Blue Muffin recipe. I think I came pretty close…My…
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Summer Things
All the Summer things we want to do, eat and make before it’s over! Why do these precious months go so fast?! Golf Picnic Date Night Such a fun way to spend the evening with your hubby and friends! Even if you don’t golf! Need to get this on the calendar with our favorite golf buddies ASAP. Summer Tart Night Turn your Summer veggies into a yummy puff pastry tarts for an al fresco evening with friends. The best. Spend a day at Lake Cle Elum We just discovered this beauty and can’t wait to get back and spend the day there with the rest of the family! You drive…
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Mint Chocolate Cold Brew
But first, coffee. My morning mantra and ritual made only better with the addition of Mint Chocolate Cold Brew! I came up with this new recipe for Ryan’s birthday a few weeks ago (his favorite flavor combination is mint & chocolate), but now I am the one obsessed with it. Its a riff on the original Magical Cold Brew recipe that we previously posted here. Highly recommend you try both recipes before summer disappears. Its Friday….treat yourself! Or so said my husband Ryan when he saw me adding whipped cream to the top of my Mint Chocolate Cold Brew this morning. That was until my spray can of whipped cream…
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Ricotta Toast Off
Have you heard that ricotta toast is the new avocado toast? In the past week, I have read at least five Instagram posts telling me that avocado toast is out and ricotta toast is in. Not one to be left out of a food fad, I challenged Mallory to a “Ricotta Toast Off” over the weekend. What, isn’t this what everyone does on a Saturday evening for dinner?!?! Our “Ricotta Toast Off” consisted of five different ricotta toast recipes. The results are below. For each of the recipes, we used Grand Central Bakery’s Como Bread. A favorite in our household and available at QFC, the Como is an Italian-style hearth…
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Nordstrom Tomato Basil Soup and Parmesan Garlic Crostini and Anniversary Sale, Oh My!
Today is not only our Mom’s birthday (Happy Birthday, Lori!) but also our first day to shop the 2021 Nordstrom Anniversary Sale! Much to our husbands’ chagrin, Mallory and I completely buy into Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale tag line “Its more than a sale, its an event.” And while boggers everywhere will likely break the Internet today posting all of their sale picks, I thought it would be fun to celebrate Nordstrom by sharing a funny related anecdote about our Grandma Barbie before diving into our this year’s Sale picks. Skip to the bottom of this post if you are just here for the Sale picks (no judgment!). Growing up, Grandma…
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Arugula Strawberry Salad & Yogurt Chicken
This is such a great summer salad. It goes with everything, it is light and delicious and is so easy to throw together! I made it for my extended family over the weekend with flank steak and I made it for Chris and I with yogurt chicken last night! It will be a hit when you’re hosting and a hit paired with your favorite family recipe AKA yogurt chicken. Yogurt chicken is an oldie but goodie recipe that I forgot about until very recently. It is one of Chris’s very favorites and he requests regularly which works for me because it is super easy and healthy! These two recipes paired…
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Frosted Lemonade
Happy Friday everyone! Its supposed to be a warm weekend in Seattle (I actually see eighties in the forecast!!!) and I have the perfect family-friendly beverage for you to celebrate with: FROSTED LEMONADE. For years, the only beverage my kids would drink other than milk and water was lemonade. Unlike Mallory’s boys that have been asking for bubbly water since they could talk, Sam and Emma would not touch carbonation or most other juices. 7-Up is only a recent addition to these very particular 8-year-olds’ repertoire. Therefore, when a recipe for Whipped Lemonade popped up on my Instagram feed from delish, I thought it would be the perfect summer treat…
