Come late summer, gazpacho is the answer for everything. Can’t get rid of your garden’s zucchini harvest? Gazpacho! Feeling sugar overload from ice cream and berry desserts? Gazpacho! Too warm to eat hot food? Gazpacho!…
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Foodie Friday: Coconut Mocha Chip Ice Cream
In the days leading up to the birth of our little one, I became a bit obsessed with making ice cream. I blame the giant Costco-sized container of cream that needed to be used up.…
Adventures: You can pickle that
California is a magical state when it comes to produce and the farmers markets do a great job of showing off their bounty every summer. But even in California, the summer produce only lasts for…
Foodie Friday: Sushi Salad
While pregnant, one of the foods I missed the very most was sushi. I occasionally tried to quell my craving by going out for veggie sushi, but I was always a bit bummed that I…
Foodie Friday: Creme Fraiche Pizza
I am in love with this pizza. We are talking make-two-times-in-one-week kind of love. I think it is the creme fraiche. Perhaps it is it that I am currently into cream based flavors with lime,…
Foodie Friday: Strawberry Balsamic Ice Cream
Folks, it’s time to break out the ice cream maker. While I love this kitchen gadget, I find that it doesn’t get much use year-round. Father’s Day was the perfect excuse to dig it out,…
Makeover Monday: Raised Garden Bed
With the theme of nature fresh in my mind, it’s about time that I share one of my favorite projects Dale and I have undertaken since moving into our first house. We built a raised…
Challenge: Pregnancy Food Craving
Happy Mother’s Day! While I’m not technically a mother yet, it seems fitting that Jess recently challenged me to make a dish of a food I’ve been craving while pregnant. Plus, I’m getting really close…
Foodie Friday: Quinoa Summer Salad
Hello! Lindsey here. It has certainly been a while since we’ve talked. While Jess has been busy posting about all of the wonderful projects and foods she has been making, I have been swamped with…
Foodie Friday: Lemon Cucumber Tofu Salad
The beautiful thing about Summer cooking is that it tends not to need much cooking at all. It is a chance to allow the fresh, flavorful food to shine. It is an opportunity to spend…
Foodie Friday: Chilled Cucumber and Apple Soup
Linz and I LOVE soup. That is made pretty clear around these parts when leaves start to change color, and a warm bowl hits the spot on cold days. But what about on these hot…
Break Time
As I am sure many of you know both Linz and I are at big transition points in our life. Linz is gearing up for her last term before getting her Masters degree (Whoo-hoo!). While…
Sweet Athena Freebie! May Background
1680 x 1050 / 1440 x 900 / 1280 x 1024 / 1024 x 768 / iphone / phoneI wish I was on a boat.
Foodie Friday: Slow-Roasted Tomatoes
I would like to say that I plan all of my meals ahead of time, giving careful thought to what is best for me to eat, and then spending time meditating over my chopping, simmering,…
Sweet Athena Freebie! August Background
1024 x 768 / 1280 x 800 / 1440 x 900 / 1920 x 1200 / iPhone “In summer, the song sings itself.” -William Carlos Williams
Sweet Athena Freebie! July Background
1024 x 768 / 1280 x 800 / 1440 x 900 / 1920 x 1200 / iPhone July puts me in a festive mood, so I’ve created a colorful calendar to celebrate it! (As you…
Foodie Friday: Mushroom Hash with Ginger-Citrus Sauce
One of my favorite dinner recipes is Cooking Light’s Crunchy Shrimp with Toasted Couscous and Ginger-Orange Sauce. It takes some time, but the resulting flavors are so bright and unlike most of what I eat…
Foodie Friday: Stawberry Pavlovas
This week’s farmer’s market provided me with one of the best gifts of the season: fresh Oregon strawberries. We took home two varieties, including Hoods, which are at the same time hilariously shaped and incredibly…
Asparagus Cake
From the moment I first spied Rosie’s breathtaking Asparagus Cake over at Sweetapolita, I knew I would try to make one myself. I only needed an excuse to make an asparagus cake. As you read…
A Garden Party
This past weekend, we celebrated a friend’s birthday with a theme that fits her well. She has a love for gardening that I can only equate to my brothers’ shared childhood love of videogames. Or…
jess + linz
Friends since middle school, we continue to inspire each other to be creative in our big, adult lives. Each season we take on a new theme to guide our crafting, cooking, and creating. We're up for trying anything, and things are bound to get messy. But that's just the way we like it.