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This flavor is the best one yet! I got this matcha green tea powder as a free sample from the company, Kiss Me Organics.  Truthfully, I’m not one to take up freebie offers very often (they’re not usually things I’d eat – free or not), but I was really excited about this one.  The health benefits of green tea are numerous, and matcha powder is (dare I say?) even more exceptional.  Plenty of studies have shown a link between consumption of these powerful antioxidants (EGCG) and cancer prevention.   Anyway.  Kyle’s favorite Jamba Juice smoothie (which is probably no longer on… Read more >

Eeek!  I’m behind with the highlights posts.  Kyle was (is) out of town so I didn’t get around to uploading pics, but here are a few from last week. We’ve been spending lots of time at our friend’s pool.  They have a dog, which excites P like nothing else in the world.  He loves dogs almost as much as garbage trucks. Range = 1 mile. This is SO me.  It makes Kyle insanely nervous that I drive the car until there’s nothing but gas fumes left in the tank, but I swear I do it every dang time.  I… Read more >

They aren’t in order but here was last week’s menu. First up, grilling! I usually let Kyle pick our weekend eats because he loves BBQing and doesn’t get a chance to do it on weeknights.  This pork was on sale so we went for it, knowing that the extras could be used in lunches, etc. I made a simple salad on the side – just tomatoes, goat gouda, basil, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and salt +pepper.  The basil and tomatoes were from the garden.  The goat gouda was from TJ’s and was realllllly good. I wanted to… Read more >

There’s no good name that can sum up the yum so I’m sorry about the title. It’s the sauce that’s the winner, but I can’t really determine the main ingredient in it that makes it so awesome…I guess that’s why it’s so awesome though, right?  So many things meld together in taste bud harmony.  Wow was that a gem of a sentence – I should be a food critic! I copied much of the sauce recipe from this Bon Appetit recipe, but I’m going to write it up with all the changes I made below…. Read more >

Yes, I have a friend who is also named Elise.  It’s very confusing for me since I’ve never shared a name with anyone, let alone someone I interact with frequently.  She has a little boy a few months younger than P so we hang on the regular. Anyway, we went to her house for a potluck/swim/world cup party on Monday.  Oh, and it was her b-day too!  I brought a corn and quinoa dish that I loosely based off this Bon Appetit recipe for Mexican Corn salad.  I made extra and added crab meat to it to… Read more >