I’ve started seeing watermelon at the grocery store. Summer is almost officially here! Oh, picnics and outdoor events and beach days, how I cannot wait for you to arrive. So I’ll make you arrive early with this delightful watermelon juice recipe from Sugar and Charm that sounds perfect for an afternoon on the porch.
There’s no way something that looks this good can be good for you. But I really think it might be. I’m loving this snack idea from Caitlin Levin on Justina Blakeney’s blog not only for its healthy yet drool-worthy looks but also because its lets me avoid biting into a whole apple, which I really hate. Weird, I know.
Also, kudos to my lovely friend Irvina for alerting me (via Pinterest) to Justina’s adorable blog and this other scrumptious recipe.
{Photo via Justina Blakeney}
I know we’ve posted a lot about cookies — especially the chocolate chip variety. But when you see an image like this, how can you resist? And this is exactly my kind of recipe: It calls for a muffin pan (check!) store-bought dough (check!), chocolate chips (check!) and a plastic bag (check!). That’s it! Of course, you could get all fancy and make your own dough, but I just love that Kevin & Amanda are all for the store-bought variety, too.
… This could be dangerous.
Happy National Pi Day, everyone! For those of you whose last venture into the world of math was a college communications math class (me), Pi Day is the one day each year when true math fans delight at the aligning of calendar days and the mathematical constant for circles that is March 14, 3/14, 3.14. No matter how you slice it, today’s the day to eat copious amounts of pie and fill your blogs with as many pie/pi puns as possible. So I’m rounding out the day with a list of some of the best-looking pies around, starting with this looker (above) from Bakerella that is pretty much my dream-come-true.
3.14 more pies that strike my fancy:
1. Blackberry Apple Pie from Good Things Grow
2. Pies in a jar from All Jarred Up
3. Apple Pie Caramel Apples from The Girl Who Ate Everything
.14. Blueberry Pie Wontons from Cheeky Kitchen (technically these aren’t round, but put a few of them together and you can probably get something resembling a circle)
Continuing with my breakfast theme for this week, how good does this look? And I love that it’s so quick and easy to make. Time to finally get those steel cut oats out of the pantry and into my stomach.
{Photo and recipe via This Homemade Life}
Cranachan: I have no idea how to pronounce it, but I so want to eat it. And it’s “a delicious alternative to trifle.” (No idea what that is either.)
Check out the recipe on the BBC website.
[Photo via BBC]
It seems like there are a lot of trendy, healthy foods popping up lately (kale, squash, quinoa and the like) that I have yet to really delve into on my own. My last two trips to Trader Joe’s have included quinoa of some kind, but the grain has just sat in my pantry, lost and confused among my usual repertoire of ingredients. That is, until this weekend, when I discovered this amazing recipe for breakfast quinoa that absolutely blew my mind.
I’ve actually been seeing breakfast quinoa popping up at some of my favorite breakfast places as of late, but I haven’t yet had the courage or desire to try it. This weekend I was feeling a bit ambitious – and hungry for something sweet and healthy (bit of an oxymoron, I know) so I went on a search for quinoa recipes. This one was a slam dunk as it included some of my favorite things ever: cinnamon, blackberries and pecans. Plus it seemed like the perfect mix of healthy and sweet. It was. In fact, it was so good, that it may have the power to overtake my morning cinnamon roll obsession. That’s big.
Check out the recipe at 101 Cookbooks. (Note: I substituted the milk for vanilla almond milk and it was amazing!)
No joke, I’ve been looking all day for some really yummy side-dish recipes to contribute to my family’s Thanksgiving meal tomorrow. I’d finally settled on some pretty basic dishes when I came across this gem that seriously gives me warm fuzzies all over.
First of all, I love the idea of a “Friendsgiving.” (I, of course, love spending time with my family too, and I’m lucky to have them close by. But I also secretly dream of one day being forced to emulate the Thanksgiving episode of Felicity (season 1) by scrounging together whatever is left at the grocery store and cooking it in my dorm room microwave surrounded by friends both weird and good.)
Second, this Friendsgiving has a menu. Yes. A real menu that you can print out and fold and put on the table like the adorable thing that it is.
I honestly haven’t even looked at the actual recipes. The photos and menu sold me. But I can tell you that it all looks pretty amazing.
{Photos via The Sweetest Occasion}
Yum. I turn away from most fried foods, not for health reasons necessarily, but because most of them don’t sit too well with me. But this might be the exception to the rule. I bet it tastes like a personal-size strawberry shortcake.
Recipe via The Family Kitchen
Celeste
Kim
