Good news. You can make healthy food even better with two small tricks. One? Cut the vegetables into adorable shapes like half moons. Two? Make this super easy dressing and pour it all on. Last weekend I stayed at The Gilded in Newport. The food was so amazing that since checking out I have asked…
I’m going to make this quick… because green bean salad is pretty straight forward. I almost wouldn’t write it up but when I was menu planning for this years 4th of July… I realized I never wrote down what I made last year. Devastating. My formula for the 4th of July menu is always the…
I will continue to stand by the principle that I only make things I wouldn’t mind eating for several days. That will be the case 1000% with this pasta salad. Turns out I didn’t need to double it… one batch would have been just fine. Thankfully, this super easy pasta salad is light enough that…
I love a good potato salad. It can be so many things… extra creamy, extra savory, extra just about anything. There was this amazing potato salad we grew up with that had peas and bacon in it. I’m sure there were other things but I flipping love that stuff. It came as a side whenever…
I had a bunch of ladies over for dinner one night recently. I was racking my brain a bit to figure out the optimal menu for the occasion. When we go out to a restaurant, we often all end up getting burgers – but that just didn’t feel right for a fun summer girls night.…
I’m going to be honest. Out of all the things I made for our 3rd of July party, I was the least interested in this one. Like, when I was listing out the different items I would always close it with “oh… and a caprese orzo salad”. I figured it was the dish that even…
I love a good green bean dish. Like, it is so satisfying and makes you feel a bit healthy … even if you happen to have covered it in fried onions. It’s beans! It’s good for you! But since it is summer, I was hoping for something just a tiny bit lighter and didn’t require…
I’m not a huge mustard fan. Like, if I’m listing off foods that I won’t eat it immediately starts with shrimp and then probably shortly there after I’ll say mustard. That being said, there have been several cases when mustard and I are “fine”. Places mustard is not okay? Hot dogs, sandwiches and pretzels. I…
I think I tend to make quinoa cakes like once or twice a year – and normally when I feel like I need to pull myself together and get back to square one. Square one being actual meals… and not sourdough toast. Don’t get me wrong toast is amazing – but there are no real…
Man oh man. Everyone should immediately grill some tomatoes. Immediately. During the weekends, I repeatedly check on the tomato plants like they are children. I check for new ripe fruit, things to be trimmed, weeds, etc. Then the work week comes… and I only see the babes for a few minutes in the morning and…
