There may be a lot of apple recipes in the future because we went picking at Apple Hill and came home with quite a bounty… The first place we went (Pine ‘O Mine) only had granny smiths left (not my fave) so after we got a few pounds of those we headed up the road to another spot (Boa Vista) where we got apple cider, apple pumpkin butter, apple donuts (SO MANY!) and apple BBQ sauces…oh, and more apples (pink ladies and yellow delicious). There was a huge crowd but our friends got there a little earlier… Read more >

P is still sleep, so I’m posting an actual up to date meal. This was lunch today (spinach tossed in a [dayam good] homemade balsamic vinaigrette, with [and entire] avocado, dried cranz, and [still warm] roasted butternut squash). And since I felt so healthy I thought I should follow my green bowl of yum up with dessert.  Two desserts, actually.  Which I made even more dessert-y by adding sun butter on top.  Let’s call it frosting, shall we?   Best lunch I’ve had in forever.  Stay tuned for more info on the chocolate muffins/cupcakes. It makes… Read more >

Playing catch up here…with last week’s meals. Actually, the first dish got bumped to this week because it never happened.  Also, I made the pan fried tenders with rice and salad on a night Kyle was out of town and for some reason didn’t take a pic.  I also forgot to take pics of the Asian noodles, too (!!),  which is ridiculous because I made two massive batches, which we ate as leftovers throughout the week (the other batch went to a new mom).  Multiple opportunities to photograph, but still escaped the camera.  Meh.  So given that,… Read more >

I took two trips to Costco this past week which was definitely two more than I wanted (why I grocery shopping there so annoying?).  Anyway, in spite of that, we still seemed to have no food in the house which was especially odd.  For the record, one of the Costco trips was to buy all the food for our Trinity trip…which was a huge success food-wise thanks to our amazing friends and their compassion and empathy when it comes to P’s allergies.  The menu was simple but delicious and I can guarantee nobody starved.   😉 Ok… Read more >