Where we live, it’s frigid. So we’re warming ourselves using all available measures. This includes consuming bowlfuls of chicken and wild rice soup. The savory, layered broth transports our minds to more comfortable times. It soaked into crusty bread makes for a near perfect bit.
With our wife out of town, what kind of trouble did we get into? Pasta trouble. We made fresh macaroni, tossed in Sicilian olive oil, pancetta, and garlic and served under grilled chicken. When the cat’s away …
#pasta#homemadepasta#freshpasta#macaroni#pancetta#comfortfood
Here we are in the dead of winter, and what could be better than chicken and wild rice soup? It warms the belly and comforts the soul, like sitting in front of a crackling fire on a snowed-in weekend. #comfocomfort
Talk about brash. As we plan a glorious, much-anticipated Italian vacation, we're over here cooking up Italian food for dinner. At least we'll have a basis of comparison.
It's a complement when your wife calls you a meatball, right? A term of endearment? 😬
We're going to keep eating tomato burrata salad until the frost rolls in and kills our plants. Until then, expect more of this, including those homemade croutons.
We follow one rule to living a happy, healthy, joyous existence: during #tomato season, eat them with everything. This tomato confit poured over medium-rare #steak filled our bellies and our hearts.
How are you celebrating Labor Day weekend? We're dining on a couple steaks and feeling magnificent. Our only grievance is that the butcher labeled them NY strips, but in our household, we call them KC strips. None of that East Coast bias here. #steaknight
There's a lot we could say about this food, and we'd mean every word of it. But it's a plate of #burrata, homegrown tomatoes and crostini, so . . . just look at it.
Our wife managed to achieve that crispy exterior without the deep dive into hot oil. This meal comes courtesy of the @CosoriCooks fryer. All the flavor, less of the guilt.
Our wife, ever the kitchen magician, did it again. As Exhibit A, allow us to present this breaded chicken cutlet and then immediately rest our case. Open and shut. Signed, sealed, delivered. Are we mixing metaphors? Probably, but it doesn’t matter.
Find someone who loves you as much as our wife loves this BLT.* Heirloom tomatoes. Brown-sugar-glazed bacon. Brioche bread. Yum!
*We won’t comment on how her feelings for us compare to hers for the sandwich.
#blt#tomato#tomatoes#summer#summereats#bacon#lunch
If you aren’t refreshed on a summer’s day by fresh #watermelon juice, then you might be destined to live a parched existence. 🍉🍹 Don't forget to coat the rim in tajin for added layers of flavor.
Here’s a spirited way to slide into the weekend. We brought home a watermelon. Next thing we know, it had been sliced then blended then mixed into a #margarita.
For a recent #dinner, we grilled chicken kebabs with homegrown tomatoes. We marinated the #kebabs in pesto beforehand and then gave them a generous drizzle post-grilling. All pesto, all the time.
It’s mid-August, and you should be swimming in a garden full of fresh basil. Don’t squander these riches. Pesto them! Can “pesto” be a verb? Perhaps not, let’s try again. Transform that #basil into #pesto. And don’t do it halfway; go all out.
Whether you're whipping up a #pasta dish, jazzing up #pizza, or getting creative with sandwiches, homemade pesto always delivers on flavor. 🍝🍕🥪 #summer
We see a lot of posts about kids going back to school, and those photos are heartwarming. Keep them coming! But amidst the chorus of parents lamenting the end of summer, let’s get one thing straight. As long as we can pluck a juicy tomato off the vine. it's still summer to us. 🍅
Next time we come, we’ll be staying at the Paradise Inn so we can sit there and stare at the mountain, however long it takes, until the clouds break. #travelwa
And we took lots of photos, mostly of Mount Rainier because that was the point. Of course, this is the Pacific Northwest, and sometimes pesky clouds get in the way of a perfect photograph.