Here’s what this past week looked like:
My commute includes the Golden Gate Bridge now. Happy 75th Anniversary, GGB!
Here’s what this past week looked like:
My commute includes the Golden Gate Bridge now. Happy 75th Anniversary, GGB!
This week on the Joy the Baker podcast, we celebrate our 50th episode! It’s flashback TIME.
On High Straightenence, I show you what I’m working on in our new house. Getting rid of other people’s stuff!
I just wanted to say THANK YOU soooo much for all of your wonderful comments on this post. You really are the best! You’re all so dang funny. I love that about you. Happy Weekend, friends!!
When I’m suuuuper busy, the first thing to go is dinner. I come home from work and don’t even want to THINK about what to make. When I’m talking on the phone with my mom, she always asks me what’s for dinner and I get all panicky because it never dawns on me that I need to have a dinner plan for the evening. Work totally fogs my brain!! Ummm…cereal? Mexican pizzas? But then I survey our fridge and notice we’ve got some green beans in there. Let’s roast them!
Anything roasted is considered dinner in my book! This my first time roasting green beans and it most certainly won’t be my last.
They remain crunchy and turn a little sweet! Add a little bit of lemon juice & Parmesan and they’re perfection.
Did I mention that they’re INCREDIBLY easy? Perfect thing to put in while you sit on the couch with a glass of wine at the end of a looooong day.
If I didn’t have two other mouths to feed, I most definitely would consider roasted green beans a full on legitimate dinner. The Parmesan seals the deal.
Here’s what this past week looked like:
Watching flags blow in the wind while filling up my gas tank.
On this week’s episode of the Joy the Baker podcast, WE TALK TO TYLER FLORENCE!!! Of course I ask him what Oprah smells like…Typical Tracy. Get in the FLOZONE.
Hey! What are you doing in July? Wanna find your style in food styling? Take a class with me & Joy at Teahouse! It will be deliciously FUN.
I’m at that point in moving where I reeeeeeally need to clean out my fridge because the more I use up, the less I have to move. Needless to say we’ve had some pretty “creative” dinners this week. I also keep forgetting that I packed up 70% of the kitchen. I totally wanted to make something with whipped cream yesterday but when I went to pull the beaters out of my kitchen cabinet, it was empty. Sad trombone. The good news is that I still can produce tasty recipes out of this bare essentials kitchen of mine. I just can’t make anything that has spices in it since my spice cabinet is in a box somewhere…
I found some puff pastry hiding out in the freezer so I pretended like I was entertaining 10 people at my unkempt house and made these Blackberry Lemon Goat Cheese Squares. These puff pastry bites taste a little bit like blackberry pie mixed with a lemony cheese danish BUT! There’s an arugula leaf nestled under each blackberry. Not only does it add a nice green/peppery bite it provides a nice visual interest to the plate of squares. It’s practically salad (not really).
I am not at liberty to say how many I ate yesterday.