grilled green beans & peaches with mint

grilled green beans & peaches with mint

This blog was originally posted on July 24, 2013, but I updated it with a couple recipe tweaks as well as some new photography. Enjoy!  It’s been a hot one in Boise this summer. Days upon days of triple digit heat and as much as I love to cook, that love is...
move over mimosa

move over mimosa

I grew up on a farm where dinner was eaten at noon and supper in the evening. It made sense that you’d want the big meal in the middle of the day when the workload was the heaviest and something lighter at night when it was hot and there was still irrigation...
watermelon mojito

watermelon mojito

If you’ve ever grown mint, you know that you don’t ever grow a little mint… if it’s not contained, soon it’s popping up all over the place. We just take it as a sign that it’s time to make mojitos. Normally my husband is the mojito...
blueberry strawberry pasta salad

blueberry strawberry pasta salad

Recently I wrote about the graduation Top Chef-esque challenge I had in Traverse City, Michigan for my husband’s daughter’s high school graduation party. She had given me a list of foods that I was attempting to incorporate into the menu, amongst which was...