Let this be known at the garden cocktail trials! Last week it was the Strawbarb Margarita (featuring mint plucked right from my patio plant) and this week features a thyme and blackberry filled fizzy lemonade gin cocktail which, thanks to @beatriceuber gets the name “The FizzleBerry”! I asked you all on Instagram what I should
Cocktails & Drinks
Strawbarb Margaritas
You may be wondering, what a strawbarb is. It is the fruit of the season: that mid Spring moment when the last of the winter roots are shriveling to make room for big fat berries at the grocery store. Sadly, a strawbarb is not a real fruit (although with the amazing things they’re doing in
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Appetizers & Sides
Authentic Garlic Naan Recipe + An Authentic Indian Recipe Website
As much as I would like to take credit for this delicious, pillowy naan recipe, I cannot. Everything I learned about Indian cooking came from this website thanks to one of my classmates at school who introduced me to it. Try as I might to recreate my favorite Indian dishes at home, the recipes that
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Main Dishes
Thai Style Mussels in a Spicy Coconut Sauce
This recipe was inspired by my love for salmon Penang from the Thai restaurants near us. If you haven’t had Penang before it’s basically a spicy citrusy coconut broth that is ladled over meat served with a huge helping of rice. After I revitalized some freezer salmon for dinner the other night with a few
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Main Dishes
Extra Cheesy Broccoli Cheese Soup Recipe & Cheddar Pop Tarts
Last week we celebrated National Cheddar day with Tillamook on Instagram and I can’t get over how amazing this broccoli cheese soup recipe turned out. I’ve never actually made this at home before, I’ve only ever devoured it from a giant bread bowl at Panera and indulged in the fact that I was basically eating
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Desserts
Sugar Free Nutella Hazelnut Bread Pudding
Yep, starting this recipe off with an anecdote. This was supposed to be a French toast bake, which Jan had declared was her new favorite breakfast casserole. I was trying to piggy back off of the fame of our Blueberry Brioche French Toast Bake with this sugar-free Sola Bread, but ended up declaring this a
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Breakfast
Creative FAGE Plain Greek Yogurt Mix Ins
This post is sponsored by FAGE; however, all thoughts and opinions are my own. This is a big year- not only is it a new decade but I also turn 30 in August. It almost doesn’t feel right, internally I still feel 17 but the calendar doesn’t lie. I’ve made a resolution to myself to
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Breakfast
Brown Butter Chocolate Walnut Banana Bread
I had a difficult time whether to categorize this banana bread recipe as breakfast or dessert. On one hand, I think we can all agree that banana bread is really a banana cake that we deem acceptable to eat for breakfast. On the other hand, no one can accept eating cake for breakfast as a
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Cocktails & Drinks
Grapefruit Rosemary CBD Cocktail
If you’ve wondered if the magic of CBD is worth it, this cocktail recipe could just sway you to try it. Please source CBD oil from a reputable place like a doctors office or a high quality smoke shop. Be warned that CBD is not a magic drug that can cure all ailments and be
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Main Dishes
A Rajin Cajun Gumbo Recipe From Someone Who Adores Cajun Cuisine
If there were one genre of cuisine I had to eat for the rest of my life it would be Creole or Cajun food. Anyone who has Louisiana relatives and gets to actively visit The Big Easy and devour mountains of homemade Creole or Cajun food is the envy of my existence. Atlanta has few Louisiana