• 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…

  • 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…