I’m not sure why Beef Stew sounded so good - a toss up between wanting to take advantage of the random rainy day in the midst of an 80 degree streak or the fact that it involved cooking with red wine. Because cooking with wine is my jam! It just means your going to end up with something de-lish.

Read More

Tomato soup is like my white whale. I’ve made so many tomato soups over the years, and I felt like I could never really nail it. The no. 1 issue - always the texture. It always turned out so grainy and just not perfectly smooth like canned stuff. & that was my goal - recreate the tomato soup I grew up eating, but make it better & free of the not so awesome shit we all know is hidden in canned products that don’t go bad for like 3 years. When Sunday finally came around, and my husband asked me what I wanted to do with my day off, the

Read More

So Sunday dinner - one of the coziest + warming soups in my repertoire - Lasagna Noodle Soup. This soup is the remedy for wanting somethnig classic, like chicken noodle soup, but creating the most delish, veggie filled, adult version of a classic. Creamier, herbier, and more veggie loaded

Read More

If you know me and my husband, you know that we live for soup season. & it’s finally that time of year when my fingers get numb going from my car to the house, so it’s officially chilly enough using that fireplace & dust off the Le Creuset & christen soup season 2019. My perfect soup - something creamy & cheesy & salty & appropriate with loads of hot sauce.

Read More

I think I'm a pretty self aware person, and I can be pretty honest with myself when it comes to identifying flaws and personal shortcomings.  Not in a bad way where I like pick myself apart,  but more of a "this is your issue, you have no one else to blame, and how are you going to get over it" kind of thing.  Like have you ever met a person that just victimizes themself at all times?  Like in their eyes, there's always someone 

Read More

There are days when I just need to cleanse.  But not like juice cleanse because I don't have the will power to just not eat anymore, so when I say cleanse I really mean a day to just power my body up with super foods.  Going through one day a week where I try to keep things pretty liquid and low cal is what I feel allows me to hit a reset button.  I mean, in my mind it's what allows my body the opportunity to flush out all the bad stuff & keep my shit on track.

Read More

I love tomato soup, and what I love even more is dunking crispy and melted grilled cheese bites into my soup.  I mean what's not to love about it?  It's so fun!  We haven't done any classic tomato soup with grilled cheese dunkers this year, and as soup season comes to end it's got to happen!  So I bring to you my new favorite thing - mini-grilled cheese.  Small little grilled cheese bites made with way less butter and way less calories (praise!), but still all the crunchiness that's perfect to soak up a creamy tomato soup.  Use a petite baguette as the base, thinly sliced to whip up little baby grilled cheese bites, and then load it up with the best cheese and even some veg.  That's exactly what I did for our week night, pre bowling fuel - Tomato & Chickpea Soup with Mini Grilled Cheese Bites.

Read More

A fun weekend with friends left me with a two day hangover.  TWO DAMN DAYS!! & you know what's a really bad idea - drinking on Sundays!  Particularly drinking heavily on Sundays.  And I have no one to blame but myself.  I suggested playing a drinking game to Temptation Island, and then I brought out the Chambongs.  All on Sunday, and I knew it was a bad idea.  The end result - me waking up Monday morning emailing my boss to inform him I won't be in the office Monday or Tuesday. 

Read More

We are baaaaaccckkkkk from vacation - a kind of bittersweet feeling as it always leaves me a bit slow to return to restart the productivity needed for everyday life.  Jumping back in to the real world was especially rough this go around as we are back from the oh so beautiful and oh so relaxing Costa Rica.  It was a vacation that can summed up by long days at the beach, lots of Pina Coladas (my favorite!), getting lost in 

Read More