I love coming out from work and seeing this pretty sunset lighting up the sky.
I wonder if anyone thought it was weird that I stopped in the middle of the parking lot at Safeway with my phone aimed upwards.
No worries. I looked before I stopped at the side of a car to take this photo.
Puff pastries filled with fresh tomato and basil and melted cheese. These tomato basil pastries are delicious and the best way to start your morning.
How often do you eat breakfast in the morning?
I’ve always heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, which makes sense since we need the energy to get us through the rest of the day. But waking up and getting ready for school or work, sometimes the idea of breakfast just doesn’t have its appeal.
But these, these I can wake up for in the morning. These I can quickly make and reheat.
Fajita style pasta filled with red bell peppers, green bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, and mozzarella cheese. This vegetable fajita pasta is easy to make and absolutely delicious.
Oh, I hope you had a fantastic weekend!
I was at Brit+Co’s Re:make Festival on Saturday and was wowed by all the small businesses present. So many unique handmade goods to browse through and delicious foods to try! And then of course, there were the DIY stations for making your own totes, leather feather necklaces, key chains, magnets. It was so much fun! And best of all, everything was free!
I’ll definitely be sharing pictures with you in a couple days.
In the mean time, let’s talk food.
Have you had fajita before? I’m like, addicted to the flavor. Aren’t the combination of all the spices so ahmaaaazing?
Well, today, I wanted to share with you a pasta version of fajita filled with tons of vegetables and cheesy goodness.
This past Labor Day weekend, I went to Sonoma for a friend’s wedding. The ceremony took place in the gardens of a small hotel. The wedding was simple yet elegant with a lot of DIY decorations.
Spaghetti pasta tossed with sun-dried pistou and arugula then topped with parmesan for a delicious weeknight dinner. This sun-dried tomato pistou pasta with arugula is easy to make and the perfect go to dinner.
It’s almost mid September, right in the middle of back to school season, and I know how hard it must be to juggle so many things at once.
So, today, I’d like to share with you this super easy pasta dish that can be made in just 15 minutes. 15 minutes to prep and cook. Dinner can’t be easier than that, right?
Seriously, how can you resist that?
Shrimp glazed with teriyaki sauce and tossed with fresh basil leaves. This basil teriyaki shrimp is easy to make and delicious with rice.
I adore teriyaki sauce. I swear, it complements almost everything. So if I could, I’d probably use it with everything.
Whenever I’m at a Japanese restaurant, I’m always ordering something with teriyaki. Whether it’s chicken, salmon, sushi rolls topped with teriyaki sauce, there’s almost always something in my meal that has teriyaki. It’s such a versatile sauce that’s perfect with almost everything.
So, in today’s recipe, I decided that I wanted to try to create a twist to the classic teriyaki sauce. Slightly spicy with the delicious aromatic flavor of basil, this teriyaki glazed shrimp tastes oh so very amazing.
Whipping up the teriyaki sauce and cooking the shrimp takes only a few minutes. Served with rice, you’ll have dinner ready in absolutely no time at all.
Jam made from fresh figs with a little bit of sugar and water cooked over low heat on a stovetop. This fresh fig jam is delicious with crackers and on toast.
Figs are one of those fruits that you either love or well, not. They’re also pretty pricy at the market.
Luckily, there’s a fig tree in the front yard several houses down from my grandma’s house. The owner of that tree doesn’t like to eat the figs so he lets us pick as many as we want.
Have you ever gone fig picking? I swear, it’s the worse task ever. Ripe figs smashed on the ground after they’ve fallen off the branches. Sticky sap coming out from the stems of the figs. It’s a mess. You have to wear shoes you don’t mind getting dirty because the bottom of the shoes is going to get sticky. Like, sticking to the cement kind of sticky. Yuck.
But figs have a unique flavor that you can’t find with any other fruit.
With so many ripe figs, it’s hard to eat them all. The simplest way to use all those figs? To make jams out of them.
This jam recipe is super easy to follow. There are really only 3 ingredients that you need: figs, water, and sugar.
I’ve been going to the Farmer’s Market a lot lately as you can probably tell. When I’m not working on Saturday, I try to make the Ferry Building Farmer’s Market my morning stop. So many fruits and vegetables! Sometimes I feel inspired just by looking at all the fresh produce. Is there something in particular that is your go to place for inspiration?
Sun-dried tomatoes, fresh basil, and garlic blended in olive oil until smooth. This Sun-Dried Tomato Pistou is delicious and so simple to make with only five ingredients.
This sun-dried tomato pistou. Look at its vibrancy.
I can’t even begin to describe how good it tastes.
If you love fresh pesto and sun-dried tomatoes, this is definitely something you have to try. Soon.
I confess. I had no idea what pistou was until about a month ago when I ordered arborio rice with pistou from Farmstead. And that’s only after I looked it up online.
Pistou is a variation of pesto that originated from France. In pesto, you have fresh basil, olive oil, pine nuts, garlic, and parmesan. In pistou, you really only need basil, garlic, and olive oil. Apparently, pesto varies from region to region depending on the ingredients that are available, which makes sense, and the name changes too. The area where pistou originated from didn’t have nuts so it was omitted from the sauce.
But no matter which you’re trying to make, pesto or pistou, the ingredients are simple and easy to obtain. Plus, you can blend them together in less than 5 minutes.
Fresh yellow peaches with cream cheese baked in puff pastries. These peaches ‘n cream puff pastries are the perfect dessert for late summer.
Happy Monday!
Can you believe we’re at the end of August already? I’m not ready for summer to come to an end.
And as soon as August is over, I feel like it’ll immediately be fall and we’ll see pumpkins galore.
Not that I mind, especially when I get to see fall foliage when I leave the city. My favorite time of the year. But sometimes time moves so fast, doesn’t it?
I’ve wanted peaches ‘n cream something, anything, for the last few weeks and finally got around to making these super easy puff pastries. Only a few ingredients and you have a small batch of peach desserts ready. These aren’t too sweet so they can also be eaten as a breakfast pastry too.
Can you imagine? Waking up to one of these summery pastries?
