Hey remember that time Refinery29 loved my Pinterest boards for their “country-rustic flavor“? Yeah, that was last year…kinda fun. Well, this rustic country aesthetic I like is getting a moody, wintery filter lately. I think the weather out has inspired me. … Continue reading
It rained all last night. Maybe that’s why I slept like utter crap? As soon as the alarm went off, I rushed to the kitchen to fire up the stove to boil water for coffee. My Monday morning respite can … Continue reading
↬Apartment Therapy I’ve been traveling a bunch lately, and work has just been insane. It’s left me craving a vacation – and thank goodness I have one coming up. Fortuitously planned in conjunction with my 30th birthday no less. I … Continue reading
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This week kicked my ass. Not that things were particularly busy, or any task remarkably difficult, but it was one of those weeks where my skin was a little too thin to be dealing with some of the people that came my way. Difficult people will always be difficult, and haters are always gonna hate, so this weekend I’m focusing on rebuilding some of that skin.
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My to do list for the weekend includes:
What are you guys cooking and doing this weekend? If you have a blood orange recipe that you love, please share in the comments! I’m on the hunt!
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I’m a sucker for twinkle lights.
Don’t you think a smattering of twinkle lights on a patio, a roof deck, around a tree…just make an evening outside? I do.
And now that the heat is turned up, and I’ve surrendered myself to it, an evening by the grill and a picnic table in a flowy cotton dress with cucumber water in hand sounds pretty awesome.
I realized something after our scortcher of a weekend in DC: minus the humidity I’m really good with heat. Clearly my upbringing in Arizona helped with that.
It’s nearly August though, and Summer is zipping by us and I’m already worried that I haven’t enjoyed enough “Summer-ness.”
Not enough pool parties, sticky walks with lightning bugs and dewy glasses of wine on the roof. Between all that and some summer produce – insanely juicy tomatoes for example – I think I can squeeze in just enough Summer to make me happy.
Isn’t how it goes…you get back into working out, get yourself on a schedule that starts to feel good again, life starts to feel all nice and balanced…and then you get sick. That’s how it goes for me at least.
While I’ve spent the past week on my couch alternating between sleep and something that looks like awake, I’ve been watching the internet kitchen very carefully. Here’s what’s caught my eye and what I’ll be making:
New food friend Domenica Marchetti‘s book The Glorious Pasta of Italy is out and I’ll be making her spaghetti alla carbonara tonight for dinner.
How refreshing does this horchata with cinnamon and vanilla sound?
What rivals nutella shmeared on a slice of white bread? Um, this salted caramel spread!
Strawberry season is in full effect and I would very much like to make these strawberries & cream scones for breakfast one morning.
This time of year what’s strawberries without rhubarb? This rhubarb almond coffee cake will hit the spot.
I am a huge fan of polenta, but it’s such a winter dish! This grilled crispy grilled polenta recipe has endless possibilities for spicing it up and it gets me to the grill.
Speaking of the grill…how about these grilled mussels with herb butter!? Yep! Grilled!
I’m so excited to be better soon and enjoying the farmers markets and cooking some good food again. What have you guys been cooking lately? Anything noteworthy?
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Wow. Well. It’s been three weeks since I last posted. Needless to say I’ve been busy! I went to South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW) in Austin, Texas for work – and who am I kidding?! For play, too. I ate my freakin’ face off. It was great. Highlights included braised short ribs with sweetbreads, tempura fried rabbit hearts and perhaps the smoothest, most balanced manhattan I’ve ever had.
After Austin I stole off to Phoenix, Arizona for some time at home. Mostly to sleep and recoup from SXSW. The experience is super fun but also super intense and tiring. I slept and slept and slept. And hung out with my puppies. (They do not like having their picture taken.)
I returned to DC feeling fresh-ish but still pooped and with a ton of work (and expenses) to do! After a week of catching up I feel like I’m finally organized and all things are in order.
I have something like four amazing recipes and posts I want to share with you now. I’m looking at my schedule and…I feel a blogathon coming on this week some time. Zucchini walnut whoopie pies, spinach and onion strata, another @DarthGarry cooking challenge and a lean mean butchering session…all coming your way soon. I’m excited!
What have ya’ll been up to? Anything fun? Cooking anything spectacular?
Ya know. A girl sends out a call (plea) for chicken soup and she gets not one, but two, responses! I spent the majority of the weekend sick, out of breath and coughing my way around my apartment. My cold medicine does a doosey on my appetite so by the time I finally realize it’s time to eat, it reaches near emergency levels. Cue the chicken soup! Twice this weekend I was rescued by folks who were kind enough to make me a batch of their best chicken soup. I felt the love…in more ways than one!
Thank you both! I’m already thinking of ways to pay it forward and back!
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Doesn't this look like the kind of kitchen you want to make chicken soup in!? via I Want That Kitchen
So last week I took a poultry butchering class at Hill’s Kitchen. I’m a firm believer in fate. My life is also a string of ironic turns and twists in which I throw ingredients away thinking I don’t need them or they’ve passed their prime…and then need them not even a day later. Yeah.
I’m sick. I have the early stages of whatever that bronchitis/chest congestion thing that’s going around is.
So you know, when one is sick they generally think, “Wouldn’t it be nice if I had some, say, chicken soup?!” Well. That would be SO possible if I had, after my poultry butchering class, actually MADE the damn chicken stock I had planned to make. Even better, if instead of not making it maybe I wrapped and froze all the bits that would make the stock. Oh but no. I tossed the bag of stock bits. Two days ago.
Then, there was no hint of the cough now plaguing me that feels like someone took a zester to my bronchial tubes. Nor the scratch of a sore throat that now burns.
So all this is to say, who’s coming over and making me some soup!? What do you like to eat when you’re sick?
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Something about freakishly warm weather in February makes me panic for red wine. I can’t get enough of it lately. Ironically, I’ve been drinking white wine almost all winter. As if to give cold weather the finger. “Screw you…it’s cold and I’m drinking Torrontes! You’ll be around forever…you and your icy breath. I don’t need no stinkin’ cabernet. ”
Today it’s going to be somewhere between 70 and 75 in Washington, DC and all I can think is, “Oh god. Drinking that Malbec when it’s 95 degrees out is going to feel so…heavy.”
It’s still February though and Spring still far off. So on Sunday, when the weather returns to an icy chill I’d like to pull a stool up to this rustic wooden island and drink a nice red. Preferably with someone else cooking me dinner. Maybe some spaghetti squash with a Copper Pot Food Company tomato sauce?
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