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Say Hello to October with Pumpkin Bars
October rolls around and all we want to eat is pumpkin! Yesterday being October 1st provided the perfect excuse to make our first pumpkin dessert of the season: Sue’s Pumpkin Bars. Our mom has been baking this pumpkin bar recipe for years which was originally given to her by our dear family friend Sue Teague. Sue, we (and Joe!) cannot thank you enough for sharing these. Each bite is not only delicious but just screams “fall is here”. We like to garnish these pumpkin bars with candy corn to make them extra festive. And really any excuse to have a bag of candy corn lying around the house is okay…
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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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Summer Tart Night
Savory and sweet, these tarts are so simple, you can whip up a couple different versions in very little time. An easy yummy way to enjoy summer produce – just add to store-bought puff pastry and you are half way to dinner. Cut them up small for easy party appetizers, or serve one with a salad for a light and delicious summertime meal like we did last weekend! Don’t forget dessert! This strawberry Nutella tart was so simple but SO delicious. Also, I hate to admit it but Megan made the prettier Zucchini tart and I made the rest ha! Hot tip: roll the puff pastry out with a rolling…
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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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Father’s Day Weekend Recap
(and Chrissy Teigen’s Everything Bagel Breakfast Bake) Its Monday and we are not quite ready for the weekend to be over! We had a fun-filled, food-filled Father’s Day weekend and wanted to share all the details with you. Friday night we celebrated Juneteenth with Edouardo Jordon’s Red Punch (recipe here), red velvet cupcakes and cookies, watermelon, our favorite almost homemade Trader Joe’s cornbread, and Fried Chicken Friday takeout complete with mac and cheese, coleslaw and fries from The Counter at Old Ballard Catering Co.. Only $28.00 for an 8-piece chicken dinner with your choice of three sides (add $3 if you choose mac and cheese as one of your options), The…
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Get Ready Faster Breakfast Ideas
If I had to name the most positive impact resulting from the Governor’s Stay At Home Order for my family, it would be not having to get Sam and Emma up, dressed, fed and out the door by 7:30am ever morning on my way to the office. School mornings in our household are a **it show. My daughter Emma is NOT a morning person. Every morning she wakes up and trudges to the family room where she dramatically flops onto the couch Cleopatra-style with her arm draped over her eyes. Attempting to rush her in the morning only results in her moving even more sloooowwwwyyyyly… I have tried everything to…
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Muffins For The Whole Family
Muffins are my favorite make-ahead way to feed my entire family. Breakfast, lunch or dinner… I make muffins to cover any mealtime and I’m not talking about the giant super unhealthy (delicious) Costco muffins. The muffins I am talking about are refined sugar-free, gluten-free, protein-packed, and usually full of good things like chia + flax seeds and fruits and veggies. Muffins are easy to grab to feed Jack and Joey, I can easily customize them to fit Jack’s baby needs, and Chris can take them to work for breakfast or lunch, and then he doesn’t complain that “we have no food in the house”. So, these aren’t your average muffins…
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Baking Our Way To The Quarantine 15
Our sweet Mom is the baking queen (just wait until you see her Christmas cookies). The combination of her baking and being bored at home means she is baking all of our favorite things and sending them to our house so she doesn’t eat them :). I’m sharing some of our family favorites we are baking (but her especially) and hope it helps you get creative when you’re trying to kill some time around the house. Peanut Butter Cup Cookies Ingredients: 1 bag Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (about 40) unwrapped 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup margarine 1 egg 1 cup peanut butter 1/2 tsp vanilla…
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Making Pasta With Kids
A few years ago to celebrate Ryan’s 40th birthday, we attended a cookery school outside of Venice through Stirred Travel. We stayed in an Italian villa and learned Italian cooking (and eating!) while sipping on spritzes, red wines and Proseccos of the Veneto. It was an extraordinary trip; I cannot recommend it enough. When we got home with dreams of fresh pasta still in our heads, I recommended my parents get Ryan a pasta maker for his birthday (here’s the one we got) so we could replicate our Italian experience. Unfortunately, the pasta maker has remained in the box since because #time #noitalianspritzes. But when you are stuck in the…
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Chippy Chicken
Chippy chicken is my kids’ favorite meal – they love to eat it and make it with me. Even my daughter, who given the choice would not eat any meat, loves this recipe! We have a past nanny, Mantha, to thank for this one. Last night, in an effort to be a little more healthy, the kids made themselves chippy chicken and I made Liz Adams’ EBTB Chicken Tenders for Ryan and I for the first time. That recipe is also highly recommended for a more adult take on a chicken strip. But, if you are looking to have a little fun with your kids in the kitchen, here’s how…
