Happy First Week of Summer!! The weather is finally hot, the days are super long, and all I want to do at night is sit outside around a fire pit and enjoy my family and friends’ company. Throw in a bag of marshmallows, a box of graham crackers, and chocolate bars and you have created…
Quick Marinated Tomato-Cucumber Salad
I love a good easy summertime side. Because sometimes you just don’t want to deal with mayo/sour cream, long cooking times, or having the oven or stove on for long periods of time in the middle of August. That’s why I am a big fan of marinated salads. They are vinegar-based, which means low food-borne…
Peach/Nectarine and Blueberry Crumble
My favorite part about summertime is quiet Sunday mornings spent at the small farmer’s market in my town. It’s usually less crowded, a lot less hot, and the produce is much less picked over earlier in the morning. Plus, it gives me time to wander around and decided what I am going to buy (instead…
Pesto Pasta Salad with Spinach
Another summer day, another summer pasta salad… with pesto. Yes, I know that this is another variation on pasta tossed with pesto on this website, but trust me – this is totally different! Promise. What I like about this pasta salad is that it has wilted spinach in it. Pesto and spinach are a great…
French Potato Salad
We are officially five days away until the official start of summer, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been jumping the gun a little and pretending that it’s actually summer/making all our favorite cook-out foods! Memorial Day is the official start of the summer anyway, right? What I love about summertime eating is that it’s…
Confetti Turkey Chili
Hi there! How’s it going? How was your weekend? My weekend was super fun because I actually got to do Girls Weekend with my mom and sister in E’s new town (while my poor dad was cleaning out my grandma’s apartment…). It was so nice to have quiet time with just the three of us…