Steeped earl grey with flavors of black tea and hints of bergamot infused with sweet lavender, fresh lemon and smooth bourbon. Earl Grey Lavender Bourbon Punch is an easy batch cocktail for your next afternoon gathering. If it's ok to drink bottomless mimosas for breakfast, can we please welcome - with arms wide open -...
Kale Citrus Salad with Grilled Lemon Basil Dressing
Kale citrus salad is here to warm our taste buds into fresh spring flavors! Grilled Meyer lemons and basil dressing massaged into chopped tuscan kale topped with juicy grapefruit and blood orange, creamy goat cheese, savory shallots and sweet honey drizzle. Ready for fresh spring flavors? This time of year is one of my favorites...
Friday Four
What's in your cup today? Looking straight into a lovely cup of espresso and steamed milk over here while the day assembles itself. Are we ready for the weekend? What's on the agenda? I'll be switching hats and working at the restaurant this weekend, which is always a welcome change of scenery. Once a bartender...
Instant Pot Chocolate Steel Cut Oats
The easiest way to have chocolate for breakfast! Instant Pot Chocolate Steel Cut Oats are creamy, rich, full of chocolate flavor with the perfect texture. A scoop of peanut butter on top is the recommended way to enjoy! Calling all chocolate lovers. Today is the best day because we are waking up to chocolate. Chocolate and peanut...
Friday Four
Oh heeeeeey! Happy Friday everyone. I'm pulling a little something out from the past today. A real long time ago, there were these quick little Friday posts. First it was Friday Five, then it was Friday Four and then it was forgotten about. Oops. But, I'm bringing it back. Call it inspiration from my 'Time...
Warm Spinach Salad with Goat Cheese and Roasted Butternut
Warm spinach salad is chock full of healthy spinach greens tossed with goat cheese and roasted butternut squash with your favorite salad dressing. Glazed pecans add a little sweetness and crunch for a salad that bridges the gap between winter comfort food and healthy spring eats. Do you feel like we're stuck in the in-between?...
2 Minute Homemade Pizza Sauce
Pizza night is ready for a taste make over with this simple, easy 2 Minute Homemade Pizza Sauce. It's the perfect blend of pantry staples and fresh ingredients that will help take your pizza to restaurant style taste, but at home in your sweatpants. If I had a dollar for every time I wrote about...
Roasted Garlic Crusty Soup Bread
Crunchy, crusty exterior gives way to tender, soft, white bread laced with sweet, roasted garlic. It is everything you need in a simple, no knead recipe for roasted garlic crusty soup bread. Rolling in deep on the carb train this week. (AKA living my BEST comfort food life.) Puff pastry on Monday, Crusty Soup Bread...
Meyer Lemon Ricotta Puff Pastry
Crisp, flaky puff pastry topped with creamy and sweet lemon ricotta and baked with sugared meyer lemon slices. A dessert that's perfect to bring to a party or serve for brunch. It's Monday, but it's a holiday and therefore we shall start with dessert. And also, I've decided that Mondays are just the pits for most...
Honey Garlic Pork Belly Brussels Sprouts
Perfect as an appetizer or along side dinner. Crispy pork belly lardons, sliced thin and tossed with cast iron roasted Brussels sprouts all drizzled in easy honey garlic sauce. Calling all bacon lovers!! And Brussels sprout lovers for that matter. Those two BFF ingredients are about to come into our lives hand in hand and...