Recipes
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Apple Picking, Apple Cider Mimosas & Apple Sauce
We took the kids apple picking at Swan Trail Farm in Snohomish this weekend. Can someone tell apple orchards they need to serve apple cider mimosas? They would make a killing! I’m sure they can’t serve booze but really… a killing. If you haven’t tried an apple cider mimosa yet I highly recommend it. All you need is some yummy fresh apple cider (we picked some up at Swan Trail) and champagne or Prosecco. So after a few hours of wrangling children and masks at the apple orchard we came home and a mimosa had never tasted so good. But really, the apple picking process at Swan Trail is super…
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Harvest Bowls with Apple Cider Quinoa
My obsession with apple cider continues. Monday it was apple cider cocktails (you really have to try the margarita!) and today it is apple cider for dinner in the form of Harvest Bowls with apple cider quinoa and apple cider marinated chicken all topped with an apple cider vinaigrette. Yum! Doesn’t this meal just scream fall to you? We made these Harvest Bowls for dinner last night. Sam and Emma typically love when they get to serve themselves and pick what goes on their plates (in this case bowls). But, truth be told, the evening was not the fall-inspired, cozy and relaxing dinner I imagined when I meal-planned earlier in…
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Apple Cider Cocktails
There are a lot of people who equate the start of the fall season with the return of the Pumpkin Spice Latte at Starbucks. Not me! My favorite fall drink at Starbucks is steamed apple juice with whip cream. No, not Starbucks’ Caramel Apple Spice (steamed apple juice complemented with cinnamon syrup, whipped cream and a caramel sauce drizzle) which in my opinion is just too sweet, but plain steamed apple juice with a large dollop of whip cream. Fall leaf sprinkles optional. So good and in my opinion quintessentially fall! So now that I have committed fall sacrilege by admitting PSLs are just not my thing, I can tell…
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Ryan’s Sunday Sauce with Bucatini Noodles
Apparently I am the sister that loves noodles and posting pasta recipes on Fridays. (For anyone that has spent time with Mallory and I, do not try and act too surprised!) Because here I am posting another pasta recipe on a Friday: Ryan’s Sunday Sauce with Bucatini Noodles. And if you haven’t yet had the opportunity, you should really check out our other Friday pasta posts for Salami Ragu and Mack’s Roasted Tomato Sauce. Have I inadvertently made pasta recipes on Fridays a thing? If we were forced to pick a favorite noodle in our house it would be bucatini. Bucatini is a thick spaghetti-like pasta with a hole running through…
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A Fun Fall COVID Friendly Meal: Skinny Mini Chicken Pot Pies!
Chicken Pot Pie reminds me of Fall and all the cozy things I love about this season. So, when one of my favorite bloggers, Liz Adams, posted a skinny chicken pot pie recipe a few years ago you better believe I made it and have been making it ever since. I only make it a little less “skinny” by sprinkling Stove Top Stuffing on top and OMG IT’S GOOD. They are so delicious and cute that they would be perfect for hosting a dinner party this Fall or Winter, a Sunday night family dinner or given we ate them last night, they are really great for any occasion or day…
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Blue Friday Football Bites
Sunday is the Seahawks’ first game of the 2020 NFL season and we are BIG Seahawks fans over here on Lets Wine About It Sister (okay, Ryan, Sam and Emma are big fans and I like football food). This week, we celebrated the kickoff of the 2020 NFL Season (see what I did there!) and the Seahawks’ upcoming game with an easy football-themed dinner. This year might be an interesting NFL season with no fans in the stands, but isn’t that a great reason to make it extra fun at home? Our football-themed dinner included vegetarian Instant Pot chili using this Pinch of Yum recipe (which unfortunately I would only…
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Labor Day Menu Inspiration
Labor Day weekend and I have a complicated relationship. I mean, I love a three-day weekend as much as the next person, don’t get me wrong, but for me Labor Day represents, the last hurrah of summer, and no matter how much fun was had in June, July and August, I am just never ready for school to restart and long, warm days to come to an end. But, no matter my feelings on Labor Day, long weekends in and of themselves deserve to be celebrated with good food and drinks. To help everyone send summer off with a BANG, we have two fantastic Labor Day weekend menu recommendations for…
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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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Hawaiian Sunday Funday
Thanks to Megan, we love a good theme around here, but even the queen of themes wasn’t to thank for this Sunday Funday. I coordinated a play date for Joe with his pal Kennedy, who happens to be my little brother’s fiancé’s niece. Have I told you this wild story yet? My little brother, Michael, is marrying my husband’s childhood best friend/now co-worker’s, sister… I know, it hardly even makes sense to me. But long story short, Laura and Michael got engaged last October in Hawaii and both mine and Laura’s family were there to celebrate the surprise engagement. Sadly, I don’t think we will be going to Maui any…
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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,…
