Falafel Fritters with Lemon Yogurt Sauce

Tiny secret- I love falafel. In fact, I love pretty much all middle eastern food (I’m looking at you hummus). I’m pretty lucky to live near some pretty great middle eastern restaurants that I frequent on busy weeknights when I don’t have time to cook. But with summer here and my desire for everything to be “fresh,” I opted to make my own falafel fritters at home, and they did not disappoint. In fact…I’m not sure if I can ever head back to my favorite falafel spot as I may have outdone them (in my opinion of course).

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August Garden Update

 

Well well well, we are in FULL SWING of things with our garden this summer. We have so many shishitos, zucchini and tomatoes I don’t know what more to do with them. Kidding, I am eating them to death because they are so delicious. Nothing tops home grown, sorry Shoprite.

Block Island Travel Diary 2017

I know, it seems like one of my last posts was of our 3-day trip to Block Island last summer. Well, this summer we went all in on the island, we packed up my new station wagon (mom-mobile, if you will.), Ro, a ton of food and the rest of my family for a 7-day island retreat.

Now I won’t take you through a day-by-day because honestly there isn’t just all that much we did- Beach, Food, Relaxed, Drank and played Despacito 103847293487 times. But, I did want to share some of the trips highlights and of course new things we discovered on our trip from last year.

Weeknight Dinners: Pesto Chicken Pasta

Happy Tuesday! I don't know about most of you, but after the weekend and getting overly prepared for Monday, Tuesday is when I start losing steam. If I don't have something easy and planned out I might as well just order take-out. I know, I know- it's only Tuesday…but for some reason that's my big hump day.

This summer, since we have a plentiful amount of basil, I have been making pesto at least once a week. We have a big bag of pine nuts at our disposal so it makes for a fast…um…sauce? condiment?…what does one consider pesto?

Chocolate Cherry Blondies

 

It's cherry season y'all. I'm sure you've seen it at your local grocery store (or not because they have been going fast around here) cherries are everywhere!

Now, I've admitted in the past that I am not a great baker. Sure..sure…my skills have been improving over the years but personally, I just get aggravated with it more time than not. In fact writing up recipes for this blog are difficult sometimes as in my mind 2 tsp = just throw some stuff in a pan. Baking definitely tests my patience, but I digress.

When I am baking, because- who doesn't like the occasional tasty sweet treat? I am always looking for easy, quick and minimum ingredient recipes.

Cue: The Chocolate Chip Cherry Blondie. My new summer time staple. I can barely keep these in the house as my husband has been secretly demolishing them when I go to bed.

Mid-Summer Garden Update

What a pathetic blog- You don’t know how many times a week I say “but I need to update the blog!!” and then all those projects I’m working on come and go…or never get to fruition. I actually have two posts I shot LAST summer that I could finally post since they are more appropriate for summer cooking, BUT…I digress…

This fourth of July week has been hectic getting back to work. We just got back from a week-long vacation with our family (that I promise will have a travel diary post coming soon) and our garden has gone bonkers.

I also got a new camera for my birthday in May (ehhh, ehh?)

Remember that little plan we had? Well, some of it has changed…and that’s not a bad thing. We are new to the world of gardening so some minor setbacks and differences in plans were bound to happen.

That said, we still have some great produce coming out of the garden to look forward to…and have already enjoyed some!

Pan Roasted Cod with Tomatoes, Thyme and Lemon

Can I amend the title of the post to say “and a sh*t-load of butter”?

In all seriousness the recipe I originally adapted this from had over twice the amount of butter (and half the garlic. le gasp. sacrilege).  And I had to draw the line and say enough it enough. It takes a lot for me to draw those kinds of lines, especially with butter.