As you can see from the timestamps on my posts, it’s been quite a while since I’ve updated.
Among my list of excuses are (1) new job that forced me to adopt a new (“normal”) sleeping schedule, (2) focusing on strengthening and fostering current and new friendships, (3) a lack of success in the kitchen.
But enough with the excuses. The main reason there haven’t been many posts is that I’ve been wondering what to do with this site.
Confession: I had never really had pesto before making this Macadamia Basil Pesto. But, I think I get away with it because it’s absolutely delicious and I put it on everything now. Macadamias are one of my favorite nuts, so it only made sense to use them to make a pesto (since I’m too cheap to buy pine nuts at the moment).
Every once in a while you just get this insatiable craving for chocolate that only something like a brownie can satisfy, and then you realize you have cherries in the fridge that need to be used soon – and who the hell doesn’t like chocolate covered cherries? – so you just have to make chocolate cherry brownies to be happy.
At least, I hope there are more people who suffer from this once-every-few-months problem. It probably speaks volumes about the fact that I need to do a Whole30 or 21DSD. Oh well. I made double chocolate cherry fudge bars with a cherry ganache, and they are amazeballs. That’s the only possible way to describe these brownie/bars. Oh wait. “Bomb” is another satisfactory, hip descriptor. Or we can get old school and call these “decadent”. “Mind blowing”. “Bliss”. I don’t know. Pick one of those and be happy.
I made this shrimp for my first grill-out of the summer. How weird is it that it’s almost mid-July and I’ve only grilled once? Well, I don’t have my own grill and I’ve been working an overnight shift, so it’s kind of hard to find people to grill with. But I finally managed it, and I made some bomb spicy shrimp. I’m just glad I wrote down this impromptu recipe so I could share it!
First, I’m going to get a little emotional up in here.
Concussions suck. That is today’s theme.
But more on that in a minute, first, let me point out that you should suffer through my concussion story to get these nut-free, super easy, fantastic, awesome time banana waffles. Because who the heck doesn’t like waffles? Like, seriously?
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