Last week’s “secret special” at Nugget market was a FREE CARTON of walnut milk.  Yes please! Marketing work well done, Mariani, because I wouldn’t have tried this unless it was heavily discounted (or free) and now I love love love it.  It even replaced the mocha Califia I add in my morning coffee, which is saying a lot because that’s been my “treat” for my first cup of joe for a long long time now. The walnut milk is a slightly healthier option (meaning it doesn’t have chocolate or caffeine), although it is still sweetened… Read more >

RED WHITE AND BLUE!!!! The 4th of July is one of the best days to live in Davis.  This year, once again, did not disappoint. We rode our bikes downtown first thing in the morning, grabbed coffees at Starbucks and went to the see/walk in the parade. Family pic! After which, we headed to Cafe Bernardo for brunch. Usually we go to Crepeville, but the bike course didn’t go past it this year, so we decided to change it up so that we could watch the races.  But then everyone else had the same idea,… Read more >

This post has been a long time coming.  I think I mentioned it a while back, but I’ve been obsessed with Korean food for a while, but HAVE NEVER ACTUALLY BEEN to a Korean restaurant.  One of my best girlfriends is Korean, and we talk food alllll the time.  She knows I’m a foodie and I’ve been begging her to take me to a Korean restaurant (or just cook for me???) for way too long.  She finally caved. [Back story: the reason it took so long is because her standards are way way high.  She… Read more >

I grew up with this family as an extension of my own…our lives revolved around soccer and traveling for tournaments and because they had four girls and we had three, our families were basically inseparable. Unfortunately we all have way too much stuff going on in our lives and getting together is nearly impossible.  But we made it happen!  We got a majority of us all together!!  [Sorry Laura and Emily! You were missed] These two were born only a month apart and I look forward to the day when we send them off to… Read more >

Nothing to see here!  Just another Friday at cooking school…eating a spiralized veggie salad with parsley, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and feta. I had no dinner planned on Friday because part of me thought we may be going to my parents’ house for the night.  But we didn’t.  So I came up with this! The tahini dressing was the usual combo of tahini, water, maple syrup and salt. Half of which I tossed the mixed greens and arugula in. And half of which I added to the quinoa. Mixed it all together with roasted sweet… Read more >