It was 7:30 on a Monday, we were driving Teia home from her doggy obedience class (she’s in level II now, dontchaknow) and suddenly I needed chow mein. NEEDED it. It was a “gotta have it/can’t stop/won’t stop thinking about it until I get it” type thing. You know the drill.
That craving resulted in a recipe that has graced my kitchen multiple times over the past few weeks, and I’m sharing it over on Greens & Chocolate today! Get the recipe here.
July is my favorite summer month. My friends think I’m crazy for it, but I live for the summer heat. I know this is strange coming from a Minnesota girl, but I love the humidity, even if it does make my hair look like it belongs to Weird Al.
It’s sunny, sweaty, bright, and perfect for cold beer and grilling. Sometimes I love grilling veggie burgers and making sweet potato fries, but sometimes I want to be fancy. When I’m being fancy, I grill galettes.
Although I’m never one to turn down a dessert, I’m just not into single-flavored ice cream. I’ll take a few licks of a good chocolate cone, but then I get bored. Give me some texture, like broken up graham cracker pie crust, chunks of partially-frozen peanut butter, chocolate chips, sprinkles, chopped peanuts, etc. and it’s a whole new world to me. This is why I love/hate fro-yo bars. When Ryan and I go he asks if I want to split something, but NO, because he’s the guy who gets white chocolate fro-yo then mixes kiwi with caramel and those gelatinous lychee balls. I can’t get on board with that, so we walk up to the counter with very different creations in our hands. Mine is usually double the weight of his, yet it’s gone in half the time.
Now that I have an ice cream machine, I’m having fun putting my favorite toppings into my frozen treats. It’s like Coldstone in here, but without the teenage workers who don’t want your tips because it means they have to sing. I never know what to do there – can I just slip them a buck under the counter and call it good? Or is “the man” always watching? Deep thoughts.
Oh hey, friends. Happy Monday. I don’t usually post on Mondays, but I feel like breaking away from the norm this week. Go nuts, right?
I spent yesterday morning and early afternoon having some (mostly) productive kitchen time. I made one of my takeout faves for an upcoming guest post, an ice cream for later this week (SO excited aboooot that), and then I tried to make some mini tomato tarts. In my mind they were going to be so cute! and little! and tomato-y! and packed with flavor!
It’s full-on summer mode over here. I’m just bathing in the glory of the sun, the heat, the humidity (Oh hiiiii, 80s hair), and the fresh foods.
Nearly every night Ryan and I open our back door, blast the “Wagon Wheel” Pandora Station (do it), make dinner, and then sit outside on our teeny little patio with our teeny little pup, eating yummy food and drinking chilled wine. It’s kind of perfect.
