Will was out of town last week, so I took full advantage and made a few recipes I knew he wouldn’t love, like this heirloom tomato pasta recipe from Plated. I ordered two of the meals this week (green goddess chicken and steak skewers! Yum, can’t wait!), but didn’t get this one delivered. Have you […]
A Time-saving Trick for Making Smoothies
One of my friends had a brilliant time-saving trick for making smoothies, and it only takes about 5 minutes of weekly prep. Separate all of your smoothie ingredients into individual baggies and store them in the freezer, so when you’re bleary-eyed prior to your first cup of coffee in the morning, all you have to […]
Diet Bar Food
Diet Bar Food? Could there be such a thing? Yes, and I can attest to the taste that these two recipes pair well with a good craft beer, and definitely don’t resemble diet food. Last week, I discovered SkinnyTaste.com, which is an incredible food blog with healthy, family-friendly recipes and I want to try them […]
How not to eat an artichoke
While we were in Napa at a very cool, farm-chic restaurant, Farmstead, the server suggested the artichoke to start, and I love artichokes, so we ordered the appetizer. When it arrived, I was surprised my husband would try something so exotic (he is a southern boy, and likes his meat + threes, but in California […]
Easy Quesadilla Bake
Never go to the grocery store when you’re hungry is advice we’ve all ignored. Such was the case tonight, when I wandered Publix for dinner and strolled past the cooking station serving samples of this easy quesadilla bake. All of the ingredients were right there in the cooler and that was that. It took about […]