Author Archive: Elise

This is so unlike me, but for some reason I’m having a realllly hard time letting go of summer. Usually by October I am so ready to jump on the pumpkin train, but I am not ready yet!! Case in point, this tomato and basil dish. It’s super similar to summer barley bowl only I added and subtracted a few things. For one, I kept it vegetarian by leaving out the chicken. Second, I swapped in arugula for the corn. I love a leafy grain bowl, so this was 100% good with me. And shockingly,… Read more >

Breakfast Chocolate vega protein powder, frozen banana, frozen zucchini, almond milk, ice Lunch Arugula, carrots, parmesan, pistachios, white wine vinaigrette, salmon Dinner Quinoa, Asian salad, teriyaki beef and chicken skewers Dessert Tony’s chocolonely, chocolove, and candied ginger *Unpictured COFFEEEEEEE and kombucha

You know how menus in Hawaii always have sesame crusted fish? I always assumed that was such a fancy way to prepare fish that I couldn’t do on my own. Turns out, it is actually super easy! And SO delicious! When I was meal planning, I thought I was going to make lettuce tacos w this ahi. But then the store didn’t have little gem lettuce and I didn’t want to buy an entire head of butter lettuce just for this (I already had romaine at home), so I reconfigured the dish in my head… Read more >

Kyle’s company’s lawyers decided to have a zoom wine and cheese pairing for their clients (probably because they weren’t meeting in person to shmooze with the rounds of golf or whatever), and as eye-roll inducing as I personally found this to be, I was also quite happy to be on the receiving end of the tastings. We got a bottle of sparkling vino from Iron Horse delivered a few days before the event so we could get it properly chilled. And then the day before, we got a shipment of several cheese from Point Reyes… Read more >

Kyle was obsessed with this cornbread. I think it’s because I used dairy in it. Anyway, we had the leftovers from this meal with sausage and a “cheesy” green bean dish. The sausages were WF brand (organic chicken apple) which I broiled in the oven for a few minutes. The green beans were steamed before I added a macadamia nooch sauce that I had in the freezer (leftover from I don’t remember when). It was a riff off of the recipe from a modern way to cook. I thought the green beans were good, but… Read more >