Monthly Archive: May 2013

Goat Cheese Manicotti

My sister sent me a guest post without any prodding from me – clearly blogging runs in our blood.  As I’m sure you’ve gathered in Elise’s previous blogs, as kids one of our (or at least my) favorite meals was manicotti.  Its also one of the first dishes I learned to cook as my mom would "let" us mix and stuff the shells (I’m pretty sure looking back on it now it was a ploy to get us to help out in the kitchen, but I guess it worked – take notes, Elise!). Anyway, since… Read more >

PB PB spread

Whoa. I mentioned I was in a “nut rut” last week, and it’s only been increasing thanks to this new kind of peanut butter. Pacific Beach Peanut Butter offered to send me some samples and I figured it would be the perfect thing to greet me as I arrived in Nor Cal.  The timing was awesome and I had a lovely package (with the 3 nut butters you see above) waiting for me after the long drive up the I-5. Let me tell you.  When you can’t be bothered to put together a “real” meal… Read more >