With the New Year, lots of people make resolutions. To work out more, eat healthier, lose weight, work less, spend more time with family, etc etc. Now I’m the first to admit, resolutions rarely stick. It’s hard to keep a resolution for an entire year. But it’s a nice way to start the year off…
BLT Sandwich
Lazy Sundays. Morning comes early with the sound of baby Poppy playing with her feet over the monitor. All three of us groggy, slow and rocking major bed head. A lazy Sunday usually involves a real homemade breakfast. Waffles, pancakes, eggs, something normally covered in syrup or butter. The baby is up and changed while the coffee…
FriYay Happenings 1.8.16
One of the things I love and hate about the internet is the amount of cools stuff out there. Love it because it’s truly limitless! As a blogger I spend a lot of time on the web researching recipes, learning about different ingredients and social media-ing (verb right?) As a mommy, I also do a…
Swiss Chard Risotto
It’s finally winter around here (Minneapolis). This is a very strange sentence since its January and it’s “finally” winter! Normally by now we have had a snow storm or two, temperatures have been in the negatives… and I am asking myself why I live here. It has been a very different winter. And although every season that comes…
Scofflaw: New Year’s Cocktail
New Years is right around the corner! Time for a cocktail. And this year I am going with a glamorous cocktail that is simple to make, easy to drink and made of regular inexpensive ingredients without sacrificing that New Years pizzazz. Scofflaw. Ever heard of it? Very cool and appropriately named after the term given to those who sipped spirits throughout Prohibition. My bro…
Creamy Polenta
Nothing warms your soul like a bowl of hot creamy polenta. This is the ultimate winter comfort food that is surprisingly easier than most think. 2021! We made it!!!! Even though I know nothing really changed overnight, it just feels like a better, more hopeful new year! Of course I started writing this post on…
Broccoli and Cheese Wild Rice Casserole
Before moving to Minnesota the only things I knew about this state was: Mall of America, frigid winters, tall good-looking Vikings men and wild rice. And I was not wrong. The Mall is here and it’s BIG! Winters are cold and long but secretly fun. There are lots of good-looking Minnesotans of Scandinavian decent. Lucky me…
Salsa alla Norma (Tomato and Eggplant Sauce)
Just sitting here jamming to Sara Bareilles. Does anyone else love her as much as I do? Baby’s asleep and I’m just typing and jamming… feels like college again. Good old days when I use to “study” in the library lounging in my oversized University of Rhode Island Tennis sweats with my headphones, eating sour…
Green Peanut Butter Smoothie
Post crazy rich dinners (like every plate we had at Bar La Grassa last night). OR when I somehow end up eating an entire plate of cookies, pretty much after every Christmas cookie exchange. OR days when I eat dessert after every meal, yes its possible to have cake after breakfast… I like kicking the next day off with some greens….
10 Ways to use up leftover Pumpkin Puree
One of my biggest pet peeves is wasting food. Whether we are talking meal leftovers, cooking/baking scraps or veggie stems and leaves, I hate throwing away food. Of course there are times when food spoils or you have some sort of scrap or leftover that you just can’t use. But aside from those moment, I…