To celebrate the start of the summer squash season (and the first fruits from our veggie garden this summer!), I went big with Giada’s Verdure al Forno. This time, I even found fontina cheese at the grocery store, and let me tell you… yum. I mean really. If you don’t think parmesan, fontina, and mozzarella…
Category: Cooking
Recipe Confidence Builder: Steak Salad
Sometimes when you’ve had a couple of recipe flops in a row, you need to regroup with something you know will be a win. With that in mind, I made a steak salad on Monday night. I knew it would come together pretty quickly, and I knew I couldn’t go wrong with the ingredient list–steak,…
“Meh” Recipe Edition
For every “This is amazing!” recipe recommendation on ye ol’ blog, there are a few duds. Sometimes lots of duds. Last week saw a couple of “meh” recipes, for sure. There was one instance in which the recipe called for fresh strawberries, and I used frozen strawberries that were fresh from the farm a few…
Chicken Puttanesca
I feel like a treasure hunter when I look through my cookbooks each week. Well, I’ll be honest. I don’t feel like a treasure hunter at the time. But after I finish making a new recipe for the first time, I most definitely feel like a treasure hunter. There’s gold in them there pages! Last…
Frank Friday
Sometimes I post a bunch of things about delicious food and pretty flowers and tasty cocktails, and I think, “This is not my life.” Sure, I ate those foods and have beautiful flowers in the yard/house, but is it really a representative sample? So to honor the “representative sample” concept, it’s Frank Friday. For starters,…
May Day Flowers, Burgers, and Mopey Peanuts
First and foremost, happy May Day! I used to love gathering flowers from my mom’s garden and putting them on the doorstep of a friend or neighbor we especially liked. Today, I’m being lazy and e-gifting flowers on your e-doorstep. While you’re enjoying your e-flowers, how about a new recipe, too? We had these “Big…
Biscuit Success
This is one of those weird mornings. It was an early wake-up morning for Scott, which means extra morning time at home for me. Not extra sleep time. If I tried to get extra sleep after waking up once, I would never ever wake up. Ever. I’m talking 2020, still happily asleep, fired years ago…
Small, but valuable. 