I remember my first childhood encounter with stinging nettle all too well. My family was camping up in the bluffs above the California coast for the weekend and I had found a ground of kids to play a campground-wide game of hide and seek with. When the countdown began, we all took off flying on our bikes to find the best bit of shrubbery to launch ourselves into. Can you guess where I decided to hide?…
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Clams with Spicy Green Sauce
You could say I have jumped on the seafood train as of late. While trying a new low carb diet and not eating a lot of meat, the boyfriend and I have gotten pretty tired of the standard soup or salad for dinner. On my weekly grocery run last week, I headed to the seafood section with every intention of procuring some salmon for dinner, but instead came home with clams. What can I say.. fishing them out of their watery bath seemed like too much fun to miss out on. Yeah, I may have been a bit bored at the market that day….
Chicken Zoodles + Creamy Sundried Tomato Sauce
Zoodles. What a weird word. It’s really fun to say but unless you’re hip to the Pinterest universe, it can sound like complete gibberish. Apparently it’s a mix of the words zucchini and noodles, though why they didn’t go with noochini is beyond me. I think I’m going to start calling it noochini from now on.. we’ll see how long that lasts.
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Grilled Peach + Burrata Caprese
I challenge you to find something edible in this world that is better than cheese. Besides maybe bread, cheese is probably my favorite food on the planet. I love all kinds of it. Hard, soft, stinky, tangy, creamy, you name it. If I could eat it for every meal, trust me. I would. Of the soft cheeses, a good burrata is hard to beat. …