April 21, 2008

Strawberry Juice

As you might know, I got some really great strawberries at the Farmers Market on Saturday.

Here they are right before I started digging in:

So after my strawberry overload breakfast (see below) I decided to treat myself to a refreshing beverage.Â After working around the house/yard over the weekend, it was well deserved.

I started juicing them with my juicer!

I juiced two of the containers! It produces the best puree!

I think I will use it for pancakes or perhaps in my yogurt….or ice cream!

I muddled some basil leaves with a little bit of sugar. I added some fresh strawberry juice and some sparkling water.

Put in a straw & top with a little strawberry and you have yourself a refreshing drink!

The basil was great! If you aren’t as daring…try some mint! MMMMMMM

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April 20, 2008

another sunday breakfast

Last week my mom made me an Orange Glazed Pound Cake from one Ina Garten’s cookbooks.

She gave me a whole loaf to take home. So dangerous! What a good momma!

So I cut into it this morning:

I cut up some farmer’s market strawberries using a trick I found in the current MS Living magazine.

Just use an egg slicer! It worked perfectly!

I took some honey, plain yogurt, a slice of the cake and assembled…

I scarfed this down!

The drizzle of honey was heavenly on top of the yogurt…

My husband leaped out of bed to find this waiting for him.

You can find the cake recipe here. Just look within the whole recipe and you’ll see the cake part.

Although.. a Raspberry Orange Trifle looks pretty awesome to me.

Don’t you agree?

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April 13, 2008

87 degrees this weekend!

It was so hot in our bedroom on Saturday morning, that we took off our thick/winter duvet cover and bought this new one. We must prepare for the warmer days ahead!

I really love it.

Our neighbors dropped off some beautiful lilacs from their garden….

I fed my green grape addiction…

I did a MASSIVE amount of gardening around the house. I’m pretty sure I will be sore tomorrow….

I put some hot links on the grill and we had ourselves a mini BBQ dinner as the sun was going down….

(*It was to honor the Red Sox game*-Casey says)

Casey helped me chop the onions…

Did I ever tell you how much I LOOOOOVE mustard??

There was nothing left in the end…

I also made chocolate chocolate chip cookies…but had a disaster! I’ll share the recipe when I MAKE IT WORK.

It was a nice mellow weekend. I hope you enjoyed yours too!

Off to watch more of Carnivale!

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April 9, 2008

prettie/vegan weekend!

I spent this past weekend with my prettie/vegan best friend, Erin. Every year we try to see each other at *least* twice. She came down to visit this past weekend and we had loads of fun trying some vegan treats in the Bay Area! Of course we’re both really into food- so we did some damage at a few places…..

I started off by making Penne with Pesto, Asparagus & Roasted Pine-nuts (all vegan) for dinner on Thursday:

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April 7, 2008

Girls Night! Taco Party & Strawberry Shortcakes!

It dawned on me that I forgot to post pictures of last week’s girl night!

Let’s start with dessert first!!

I sliced up some fresh strawberries…

I put them in a bowl with a tablespoon of sugar and a heaping tablespoon or two of thick aged balsamic vinegar…

(let that sit for at least 30 minutes)

I made us some whipped cream…baked a vanilla bean cake from Trader Joe’s and assembled the strawberry shortcakes…

and then we brought them to my living room and watched movies…..

I brought the extra whipped cream in because YOU KNOW I’m not letting that go to waste!

Prior to all this….I made us tacos for dinner!

Here’s the spread:

I like to fry up flour & corn tortillas instead of buying store bought ones. My mom taught me this long long ago!

here’s one of the many tacos I devoured…..

I want a taco soooooooo bad right now!

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April 2, 2008

betterish

on the road to getting better…. each day the % of wellness increases! hooray!

p.s.- i think i just died and went to heaven looking at the martha stewart living prop room! guhh!!!

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April 1, 2008

sick

why is it so easy to take good health for granted? I’ve been sick for over a week now. STOP! STOP IT!! You DAMN ILLNESS!!! Get me better! I have important company this week!

interested in my super fast & easy chicken soup recipe? lemme know!