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21
Oct
2015

Foodie Favorites – October 21, 2015

Weird (but delicious) Danish food in the kitschy “mini-Denmark” city of Solvang, CA. Give me all the meatballs and open-faced sandwiches and cabbage!

Hey guys! I’ve missed you – I’ve once again been off traveling and running around like a crazy-woman for both work and fun. Last week, we took a little road trip down the California coast and stopped in Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, this strange kitschy Danish-themed city called Solvang, and Santa Barbara – it was absolutely amazing! I can’t believe I’ve never done the California coast drive before, and it totally blew us away. I definitely wish I was cruising down the 1 right now instead of being back to reality, but such is life, right?! Here are this week’s Foodie Favorites!

These vegan pumpkin spice muffins look incredible. These are going on my must-bake list this Fall!

I am craving a big plate of this old school baked ziti like WOAH. It’s not even Fall weather here, but it’s always baked pasta season in my world!

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30
Sep
2015

Foodie Favorites – September 30, 2015

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My absolute favorite cocktail right now, from East Bay Spice Company in Berkeley. These babies are dangerously good!

Hey guys! I am more than overdue for a Foodie Favorites post…I can’t believe it’s been four freakin’ weeks! This month has absolutely flown by – in September I’ve been to Los Angeles, Denver, Charlotte, and New York for both wedding fun and work travel. It’s been a blast, but I am excited to be grounded at home for a whole two weeks – and, of course, catch up on Foodie Favorites! Here are my favorites from around the inter-webs lately:

These PB&J sandwich donuts look like basically the most amazing thing in the entire world. I mean…woah. Just woah.

Pumpkin season is finally here!! I am the giddiest about it. I think this pumpkin crumb cake looks like a pretty great place to start, don’t ya think?

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02
Sep
2015

Foodie Favorites – September 2, 2015

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My favorite appetizer, the “lollipop corndogs”, at our go-to burger place in Berkeley (home of this beauty). Totally appropriate thing to eat before a giant burger, yes?

Hey guys! Holy wow – I can’t believe that I just typed “September” up there! It feels so weird for it to be September and still feel so relentlessly hot and sunny and summer-y. The Bay Area typically has a pretty strong Indian summer, and this summer it’s basically been an insanely-freakin-hot normal summer, so I’m not expecting it to cool down anytime soon. That doesn’t mean I’m not super excited for Fall recipes though – you know I’ll be the gal cooking up some pumpkin in my steaming air conditioning-less apartment. No shame! But I’m not (quite) ready for that yet, so let’s enjoy some more summer food – here are this week’s Foodie Favorites!

This summer skillet gnocchi looks like the perfect summer dinner. I’m totally craving that toasty corn and that pillowy gnocchi!

Perfect summer cocktail, anyone? This fig and bourbon summer smash looks amazing! I LOVE the idea of pairing sweet figs and bourbon. I might have to bust out our cocktail shaker at home to try this one!

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19
Aug
2015

Foodie Favorites – August 19, 2015

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A gigantic pizza from one of my favorite places in all of Chicago, Piece Pizza and Brewery in Wicker Park. We literally stopped here on the way back from the airport – it’s too good!

Hey guys! Happy Wednesday. How’s your week going? As you can tell by my last post, I’m clearly living the rough life over here. After lots of vacay, I am very excited for a few chill weeks at home coming up – I can’t wait to get back in the kitchen! I’m feeling totally inspired by all the gorgeous end-of-summer produce and want to hang onto these long days of easy, fresh food as long as possible. I hope you’re with me! Here are this week’s Foodie Favorites:

This maple bourbon brown butter peach pie is totally swoon-worthy. Fresh peach pie is one of the best parts of summer, and this version is one of the most gorgeous pies I’ve ever seen!

This grilled pineapple and prosciutto salsa is so cool and unique. I mean, if we can put meat in our salsa, we should probably do it.

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