Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Vanilla cupcakes with a bit of cocoa powder and peanut butter chips with peanut butter frosting, also with a touch of cocoa powder, garnished with Belgian chocolate sprinkles!

And if I do say so myself, they are pretty damn good.


I used a box for the batter. I went online for the peanut butter frosting recipe but it really wasnt working for me, so I kind of made my own:


1 cup of smooth peanut butter
1 1/4 cup of smooth butter
4 cups of sugar
1/4 cup of cocoa powder
5+ tablespoons of milk (add to make consistency 






Hattie

If i had to eat only one more pie for the rest of my life i'd eat this pie

I love mountains and have a special draw to Colorado.  My mom's brother lives in the mountains and it is a major highlight of my year to visit my cousins.  Sometime along the way we picked up a Colorado cookbook and it has in it the majestic recipe for the best peach pie ever conceived.

It is so good I can't ever remember to get a picture of its juicy goodness before it disappears.

But.  I'll try on the 4th pie of the month when it comes along. (Edit: see below for picture)

The pure simplicity of pies is incredible.  With a simple crust (a stick and a half of butter cut into a blended mixture of 1 1/2 cups of flour and 2 tablespoons of sugar, binded with 2 tablespoons of water) you can entice the juicy wonders of any fruit, bringing out the subtle textures and flavor profiles of fruits from apples to currents to strawberries with nothing more than a dash of cinnamon or a handful of chocolate chips.
The method of topping the pie may be as important to the presentation and personality of the pie as naming a child.  Latticed pies ring of Americana and farmhouse wives perfecting their berry pies for state fairs, while a whole crust topping with a few vent holes can either bring to mind apple pies cooling on the windowsill or, for the non-baking culture, boxed frozen pies from the store.
If you are really interested in baking a pie that is complete from top to bottom, perhaps a more creative topping must be employed.  Apparently people like to eat cheese with everything.  To prove my point, try mixing a lot of butter with a lot of cheese, some sugar and enough flour to hold it all together, crumble it over the top of a peach pie and j in your p.

Cara

Sunday Brinner

Today I decided to make brunch, because sunday brunch is my favorite thing ever and I'm hardcore missing mohome right now. Mama Matwijkow decided to make it a big thing and invite over all of the hooligans (Jimmy's friends) over, so we planned for a crowd... and then only Devin came over. But whatever; now we have a ton of yummy leftovers!!

I made french toast with strawberry rhubarb compote, scrambled eggs, bacon, and breakfast potatoes.

The compote was the only thing I hadn't made before, but was super easy. I cut up about 3 cups of strawberries, 3 cups of rhubarb, added about a cup of sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla, and cooked it down. It was really easy and absolutely delicious.

Om nom nom I love brunch!!

-Carol

Homemade Ice Cream

I work at a summer camp and this week and next week, the theme for my older kids is "kitchen science" where we learn about acids, bases, caramelization, etc.

Today we made ice cream.

What you need:

Homemade soy ice cream

• 1/2 cup of milk
• 1 cup of heavy whipping cream
•      *to make it dairy free, 1.5 cups of soy milk
• 1tbsp of vanilla extract 
• 3/4 cup of sugar
• salt
• ice
• One small bag
• one large bag

1. Put ice in the large bag and add salt -- the salt will make the ice melt slower. 
2. Combine the milk, whipping cream, vanilla, and sugar and pour into the small bag. 
3. Put the small bag into the big bag.
4. Roll the bag, shake the bag, toss the bag, move it around to help thicken the mixture. 
5. Put the bag into the freezer for an hour (or more, depending how hard the mixture gets)
6. You have ice cream! 

We have a camper with a bad dairy allergy (which is perfect for my lactose intolerance) so we made a portion of soy ice cream. It tasted incredibly like silk milk, but with the caramel sauce we made yesterday in class, it was delicious. 

Hattie

MELT

I'm going to go ahead and say that Melt Bar and Grilled has the best food in Cleveland. 


Holy hell.

Originated in Lakewood, Ohio, Melt is the home to the best grilled cheese in the nation. With sandwiches from "the Godfather" -- 3 cheese lasagna, fresh fennel-oregano pasta sheets, spicy red sauce, provolone with garlic spiked bread -- or "the Parmageddon" -- 2 potato and cheese pierogi, fresh napa vodka kraut, grilled onions, and sharp cheddar -- Melt is aimed to please.

Having only been to the Cleveland Heights location, I assume that Lakewood is similarly decorated with tacky, light up yard decorations of pumpkins, santa claus, and vampires. The Cleveland Heights location has a huge (original) Dairy Queen sign and a huge mural on a side wall of famous people from Cleveland, including Michael Symon (Iron Chef) and Alan Ruck (Cameron Frye of Ferris Bueller's Day Off). The surrounding televisions play the same-old sporting events, food network, and there are a few tv's hooked up to a DVD player, which have played Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Star Wars, Beetlejuice, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Big Lebowski, etc.

"Parma, Italy"

I went today with my family and my dad and I split the "summer chicken" -- grilled chicken, lettuce, tomato, havarti, roasted garlic herb dressing (the best part, if you ask me) between two, thick pieces of bread. Out of the five times I have been to Melt, this is the first time I have broken the streak of getting the "Parma, Italy" -- breaded chicken, sun-dried tomato pesto, roasted garlic, provolone (pictured here).  Where the "Summer Chicken" sandwich is very light and perfect for summer, the "Parma, Italy" is just right for colder weather -- it is a much thicker and heavier meal.

With your huge sandwich, you're given a large helping of great fries and some of the best cole slaw I have ever had. You can check out the menu here -- my uncle had "the Dude Abides" and my cousin had the "Gyro Melt". Basically, I drool at everything on the menu.

And if you get a "Melt tattoo" of the grilled cheese sandwich with crossbones, you get 25% off for life.

Lets do it.



Hatte

The story of 70 lbs of strawberries and why my brother and I aren't allowed to go to the grocery together

70 lbs is not a typo: my brother and grandfather really came home from the farm with 70 lbs of strawberries, hand-picked. After cleaning and capping berries all day we were finally ready to sit down to gnash on all things strawberries: smoothies, angel food cake, plain strawberries, strawberries and cream, milkshakes and mixed fruit salads.  Now two of these require the accompaniment of whipped cream, so off to the grocery go Ian and I.

We were aso looking for spelt flour and the boy wanted to know if ginger brew is as good as I said so there was a significant amount of looking around to do.  After getting all of the grocery requisites we split off; I get whipping cream and he looks for spelt.  Finding Ian in the baking aisle unsuccessful on his quest yet turning around and deciding he likes pudding.  We load the cart with about 7 different types of pudding at which point he sees my heavy whipping cream and he says "no, I said whipped cream!" to anyone who lives under a rock, (probably the only acceptable excuse for not knowing) whipped cream is whipping cream plus air.  So I said to Boy, "I got it."  He then escorted me to the dairy section and pointed out the RediWhip.  As it was on sale, we would get two and I discovered the blue can which is the EXTRA CREAMY variety. Assuming that eating whipped cream is all about how creamy the product is, I pulled out two of these cans.  Boy said NOOOOOOOOO you have to get one that is original, to which I told him how sad he would feel eating the regular kind and lacking the ultra creamy experience.  I was poo poo'd.

We then went to two more groceries to find spelt, one being the store where he works (he didn't even know where the baking isle is!)  Whole Foods was the jackpot, carrying not only bagged spelt, but also bulk spelt  and 231435114 other awesome bulk items.  Running around trying to get boy to taste test the pita chips and veggie chips and whatever else was free, we ran along the peanut butter grinder and had to grind our own.  Then he learned that other places have different butter and was incredibly amazed and got some english butter.  Finally coming home, my mom took one look at the bags we had, mentally compared the image to how many bags we were supposed to have and sighed.

The culmination of these two stories is this image:

note: whipped cream here is the extra creamy kind

Cara

Sunday Day of Cooking

This Sunday was Papa Matwijkow's birthday! To celebrate, I made him brunch, my favorite meal, and Rebecca and Mama M and I made him dinner.

Brunch spread

 Brunch was uber delicious: scrambled eggs, fruit salad, and pancakes. I have this nifty gluten-free baking mix that I used to make my pancakes. The only weird thing about them was that they didn't bubble around the edges like normal pancakes do when they're ready to be flipped. Regardless they were nom-able.

I did the Blackmer tradition with my pancakes: pancake, fruit salad, yogurt, syrup. Deeelish.

kuchen, pre baking

 For dinner, Mama M made gazpacho, tilapia, and veggies. Rebecca and I made kuchen with peach and blueberries. I have no idea where kuchen is from, but we have it in my family ALL the time. You can make it with any fruit you have around.

First, you get flour (or gluten-free baking mix in this case), baking powder, a little bit of salt, and sugar, and mix that all together. Then you cut in butter (or margarine), make a crumbly delicious mix, and then press the mixture into a pie pan. You put the fruit on top, sprinkle some sugar and cinnamon on top, and bake in a 400 degree oven for 15 min.

While thats going on, beat one egg and then add 1 cup of yogurt to it. After the kuchen has baked for 15 minutes, take it out of the oven and pour the egg and yogurt mixture over top. Put the kuchen back in the oven and bake for half an hour.

Finished kuchen!!

It'll have to cool a bit once its done, so plan ahead for that. We had it with vanilla gelato and it was SO good. Its also mad good as leftovers, once the fruit has gelled.

Yay cooking!!

Carol

AZ update!!

Sorry I haven't been updating!! Life in Arizona has been great. I've moved in with Rebecca Marwijkow's family and so haven't been doing that much cooking... Papa Marwijkow is an AWESOME cook. To thank him for said awesomeness, we made him a bangin' father's day dinner.

 We decided to make a quinoa salad and tilapia; Rebecca and I were in charge of the salad. I've had the salad before but didn't realize how sorta complicated the recipe was. The complications made it SO delicious though- to give the cucumbers some extra flavor, you salt them and then soak them in water for 15 min, and then dry them. A little extra taste I wasn't expecting!!

The salad basically has cucumber, tomato, onion, cilantro, pepper, and avocado, along with a oil and vinegar dressing, all thrown together with quinoa.

This is the link to the recipe for more legit instructions: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/health/nutrition/13recipehealth.html?ref=quinoa

The finished product!! Super delicious, and awesome for leftovers because its supposed to be served cold.

We're making a dinner tomorrow as well for Papa M's birthday so I'll have more yummy things to post : )

-Carol

Nighttown, Cleveland

So besides quinoa, the food I have been primarily eating Chobani greek yogurt and avocado sandwiches, so there hasn't really been anything too interesting.

On Monday (6/20), Cara and I went to Nighttown, a local and really, really nice restaurant not far from our house. Nighttown is a jazz club in Cleveland and hosts people from our high school's Jazz Ensemble (which Cara and my brother were both in!) to Wynton Marsalis -- so its pretty well known in the culinary and jazz world.

Anyway! I got the roasted duck breast salad: spring greens and local arugula, balsamic roasted shallots, walnuts, goat cheese (my cheese of choice), fresh strawberries, and blush vinaigrette. It was the best salad I have ever had. I have always been a huge fan of strawberries and of goat cheese in salads. The duck was a nice touch; the last time I had duck was in China but this was almost equally as great.





Cara (being Cara) got Mac and Cheese: aged English cheddar and Fruyere tossed with penne pasta, Morel Mushroom dust (Cara had it sans mushroom) and heirloom tomatoes. There were some fried/crunchy onion bits on top, which added a nice crunch to the dish.  The only other Mac and Cheese I have had to rival Nighttown was in Paris so hella props, Cleveland.




Hattie

Pizza and Pasta

My mom and I made this pasta salad. It is basically a capreze pasta thing: red onions, fresh mozzarella, fresh basil and tomatoes.  With some pasta and then dressing.  Its quite nice with a sausage in it too.  

Then the other day (I'm really slow at posting) I made pizzas for dinner.  I home made everything but had a dough fiasco that ended with us using Boboli crusts, which work fine.  The green is a pesto pizza with garlic oil, onions and freshly shredded cheese.
 This red pizza uses homemade tomato sauce, onions and peppers on top of mozzarella.  The sauce is super easy to make.  I sauteed onions, added carrots, celery and pizza spices (thyme, rosemary, basil, garlic and about 3 other green spices that smelled good) put in crushed tomatoes and simmered it until all of the flavors had combined and it was thick enough.




Cara

Breakfast is my favorite meal

Mary (my cousin), Edie (my friend), Cara and I had a splendid breakfast Tuesday morning. 

Mary made delicious scrambled eggs with graded cheese and some rice milk (she's vegan but will eat eggs/food if they're from a good place) to make them nice and fluffy.

I was in charge of the bread -- for condiments, I put out peanut butter, jelly (strawberry and acai berry mix), spekuloos (a dutch cookie spread that is like eating rainbows and unicorns), dutch cheese and cheddar cheese. 

Add coffee, and the breakfast was delicious. 

Hattie 

Summer Salad & Smoothie

I eat a lot of salad, especially throughout the school year. Salads are the healthier option for me, but I like having fun, adding other foods to compliment. The other night, I made this light meal: salad with a homemade smoothie for desert. 

The salad:

• Half a head of romaine lettuce
• chickpeas
• fresh carrots
• mom's homemade salsa 
• 1/2 hamburger
• sprinkled balsamic vinegar

The smoothie (note: all ingredients were eye-balled):

• strawberries
• blueberries
• plain yogurt
• honey
• some milk
• ice

Normally in my smoothies, I like adding banana and instead of milk, I use orange juice but we didn't have any so I made it up! I also like my smoothies really thick to eat with a spoon, rather than having the ability to use a straw. To make it thick, add more fruit/ice/yogurt and if you would like it to be more liquidy, add more milk/juice/etc.

Hattie

Waffles with a twist

It started one year ago when Cara and I got into the habit of making waffles and pancakes at midnight. Its technically still breakfast, being 12:20am, but midnight waffles are definitely the best.

So last week, Cara and I had a friend over and we made waffles but this time we (were super bored and) added food coloring, making multi-colored waffles!

We mixed the regular bisquick waffle mix into a large bowl, but rather than pouring it directly onto the waffle iron, we divided the mix into four separate parts for different colors. Since my family seems to lose food coloring, we only had turquoise, blue, green, and yellow.

They were definitely weird, especially that my waffle iron wasn't working properly, but they were just fun to make!

Hattie

(I have been seriously failing to make posts, for I have all this good food I update you on, so expect two posts tomorrow!)

Why Not Bake?

So I walk into Hattie's house and her cousin Mary is making a bumbleberry pie.  For all you berry connoisseurs who are now extremely confused and questioning your mastery of all things berry, have no fear.  Into this pie, Marry threw strawberries blueberries apples cranberries chocolate chips and probably at least fifty other fruits that went unobserved.  Hattie and I, not wanting to be out-done, decided to make a cake.

We started out with a plain yellow cake mix, decided it was too boring and added cocoa powder.  After licking batter off our fingers we still wanted something else.  a gobfull of peanut butter did the trick and the batter was incredible.  We put it into the cake pan and decided that Reece's cups were in order.  After a short jaunt to CVS we were ready.  The house began to smell amazing while we made our buttercream frosting and when we took it out the tantalizing began.

Because we didn't want our buttercream to go to waste, we had to cool the cake, which took soooooo long, all the while we were salivating and picking fruit out of the pie.  Finally we broke down and tried the cake. It was superb, if I do say so myself.  The picture does not in any way give this cake credit.


Cara, with Hattie's baking and photography included

Quinoa and Bean Chili

Tonight I got creative and made chili! I basically used the bones of an online recipe and added a ton of other stuff we had laying around. Thankfully it turned out pretty delicious.

Le Delicious.

Making quinoa is essentially the same as making rice- 1:2 ratio of quinoa to water, bring to a boil, then let simmer until all the water is gone.
The chili had onion, carrot, cumin, chili powder, garlic, tomato, red pepper, black beans, white beans, and a dash of tabasco sauce.  Once that had gotten all yummy I stirred in the quinoa and served!

Tomorrow night is definitely a night for leftovers : )
-Carol

Red Curry Chicken with Onion, Spinach and Basmati Rice

Tonight I made a legitimate dinner for my parents and myself! It felt great to cook something, even if it was an homage to my favorite Blanchard special.

Ingredients:

Chicken
Frozen spinach
1/2 onion
Red Curry paste
1 can (14 oz) coconut milk
Basmati Rice

Directions:
Cook the chicken until brown, add the onion and then the spinach. Add red curry paste to taste (I added a whole ton) and cook through. It will smell super yummy!! While this is going on, cook the rice- 1 cup rice, 2 cups water. Add the coconut milk to the chicken mixture, bring to a boil, and let simmer. Once everyone is back from work, serve!!
If you're my parents, you can also add peanut butter (???) to this plate of delicious. But I don't get that anyway.



It didn't exactly turn out the way I thought it would but was still super yummy, and easy to make! I'm definitely going to try adding different vegetables and seeing what happens next time.

Yay domesticity!!
Carol

Sorry I haven't been posting!!

Hey y'all,

Sorry I haven't been posting. Food at school got legit DISMAL the last few weeks and I couldn't bring myself to talk about it. I'm home now, though, which means there's a potential for some seriously good eats.

xoxo
Carol

WE HAVE FROYO TOOOOOO

So Hattie and I were sitting one evening and didn't really have anything to do (per usual.)  So we decided to go wild and check out a newly opened frozen yogurt shop in our local shopping "village"-for all of you who live on farms (Hannah) its where suburban rich folk go to spend money in lots of different hoity-toity stores but its supposed to look really nice and outdoorsy/villagey not like your regular Hadley Mall mall.

But I digress...we walk in and it is BRIGHT LIME GREEN attacking your eyes and the music is about 10 levels too high for comfort and coming from a traditional Goberry thing with a serving counter, I was slightly confused and had to comprehend what I was seeing.  On the back wall there were about 10 dispensers and nothing between you and them.  To your right as you walk in, there is a small table with bowls sized taste, huge, and movie theater size popcorn.  Along the right wall there is a counter with endless toppings: chocolate candy based things, fruits galore and sauce dispensers.

The process: grab some sample cups and try the flavors: original, chocolate, peach mango, strawberry, raspberry pomegranate, New York cheesecake, peanut butter and something else that escapes me currently.  You decide what you want, grab a bowl and put whatever you want in it.  We ended up with original and strawberry with strawberries, mango, kiwi, mini Reece's cup like things but with raspberry goo, and Oreo crumbs.  To compare, it was about a medium size with 4 toppings for under $6.

But we miss Goberry.


Cara

Pesto egg sandwich

So I guess this summer I'll be eating a lot of eggs. 

My mom makes some bomb ass homemade pesto that the Gods envy. I toasted some whole wheat bread, smeared loads of pesto on, and prepared an egg over easy. With this, I ate a fourth of a cantaloupe and maple yogurt! 

Voila. 

Its amazing. 

Hattie

Bagel Street Deli, Athens Ohio

I mean, just LOOK how good that is. 

I went to visit my friend in Athens, Ohio this past weekend! Sunday morning, we all woke up and we went to Bagel Street Deli, an Athens staple. You walk in this tiny little entrance to a restaurant packed with college kids with brick walls covered in graffiti/writing and when you're done with your bagel, you can make something out of your tin foil and attach it on the wall.

I had the MacGager. An everything bagel with mayo, lettuce, tomato, provolone, avocado, bacon, and hard boiled egg. I actually died and went to heaven. After the 30 minute wait, we headed outside with our bagels to wait for others and I finished mine before we rounded the corner to get coffee.

Hattie

My BFF Quinoa

My Canadian cousin is living with my family for the summer and she is vegan. Its kind of odd, because my family firmly believes in the beauty and art in a good burger and my brother and I are notorious for knocking out a gallon of milk in 32 hours. Then theres Mary. 

But even before Mary came to live with us an introduced my family to a vegan style of eating, I was already in love with quinoa.

Quinoa: A goosefoot (Chenopodium quinoa) found in the Andes, where it was widely cultivated for its edible starchy seeds before the introduction of Old World grains. 

What you do is boil the seeds and they come up looking like funky boogers (apologies for the graphic image but its kinda true) and you have quinoa. So here is my staple of summer: quinoa salad with carrot, avocado (of course), onion, celery, and walnuts

Hattie 

Dinner out in Noho

Meal: Dinner/Dessert for Deanna's Birthday!!
Location: Local Burger, GoBerry

Yesterday we went out to Northampton for Deanna's birthday! We went to Local Burger, which was divine, and GoBerry, further fueling my Problem with froyo.

At Local Burger, I got two hot dogs with sauerkraut and relish and fries. I slathered up the dogs with the toppings, as well as some ketchup and mustard... so delicious!! Since I'm a glutard I got them without buns and made sure to eat them with a fork and knife to avoid phallic imagery in a family establishment.

Another great thing about Local Burger is that its BYOB!!! I felt adult-esque enjoying my pear hard cider with my meal. (Newsflash: pear hard cider is THE BOMB.)

And then, of course, we went to GoBerry!! I went for a kiddie size since I was already stuffed from Local Burger. They had raspberry!!! I put semi-sweet mini chocolate chips on top, as well as some chocolate syrup, and was one happy camper.


Glad that y'all are able to cook delicious things! I can't wait until I can stop eating at Blanch and eat real food again...

Carol

TORTILLA SOUP

Location: grey cleveland
Meal: dinner

I was charged with making my family dinner tonight because I guess they like my cooking.  I wasn't really sure what I wanted to make; we've had a rather diverse menue the past few days I've been home.  I had to go to the grocery so I did my usual lollygag around and see what looks good business.  Because today is one of those days where you know it is mid May, and the sun should be glorious but it has been 50 degrees and raining for the past week plus, I decided that I was going to make a tortilla soup.  Its a warm dish with a bit of heat and has flavors that do the salsa in your mouth...perfect!

After coming home from Hattie's where we watched part of the secret Harry Potter (Chamber of Secrets...get it?) I had to start almost immediately.

I turned on some music (cooking is always fun with loud music) and began.
I sliced corn tortillas and fried them, sauteed onions and freshly minced garlic with cumin, coriander, paprika, cayenne pepper and chili powder, stirred in crushed tomatoes, black beans and corn and grilled chicken breast and simmered it in chicken broth to let all of the flavours mingle and harmonize.  We ate it over steamed brown rice, mixed in my tortilla chips and garnished with lime wedges, avocado and grated cheese

I had my meal with a Fresca and I was soooooo happy.
Hattie will tell you that I usually smell like garlic and onions, but today I can tell you I smell like lime juice!

Carol-have fun at reunions! I hope the weather will hold up, I see its supposed to be crappy there too.  Say hi to moho for me

Cara

Avocado Sandwiches

One thing I miss from Massachusetts? FroYo.

But last night, my cousin Mary came home from work around 11:00pm -- she works at a local bakery -- and she brought home some fresh focaccia bread and sourdough bread! Mary whips out an avocado and starts making a focaccia-avocado-vegan cream cheese sandwich so Cara and I toast some sourdough bread and make avocado sandwiches.

Toast any kind of bread you like or have (but maybe not focaccia)
Add butter to the bread (if you feel like it)
1/4 of an avocado for 1/2 piece of bread
Sprinkle with lime


I personally like cutting fresh tomato on my avocado sandwich, though we didn't have any last night.


Hattie (and kinda Cara)

GoBerry Day Three, Or, How to be Addicted to FroYo

yummmmm

Location: Northampton, MA
Meal: Mid-afternoon nom

Went to Northampton today with Robyn, Ellen, and Megan. Ostensibly to get Robyn a new bar for her tongue piercing, but really I just wanted GoBerry. I also made the spur-of-the-moment decision to get a hoop for my nose piercing because, really, why not.

After Robyn and I put our names in line at Lucky's, we went to Mecca GoBerry!!!

Today the flavors were original, blueberry, and mango! I'm unfortunately allergic to mango so I went for a blueberry/original twist. I originally wanted white chocolate chips, but they were apparently yogurt chips... and having FroYo with yogurt on top seemed a bit too much yogurt for me.

Instead I got strawberries!!!

Thats my finished creation, with some honey on top.... That was gone in approximately 5 minutes.

Carol

Scrambled Egg Sandwich

Location: Chez Hattie
Meal: Brunch?

My dad introduced this sandwich to our family years ago and it is still a staple for weekend food. It tastes absolutely wonderful.

Scramble 2 eggs
Toast 2 pieces of bread
Put the scrambled eggs on one of the pieces of toast
Add pepper and a little salt
Add hot sauce
Put the other piece of toast over it all


Ketchup is optional though its worth a try.

I just went out with a friend from home to Phoenix Coffee, a local coffee shop, and I picked up some Ginger Brew and you haven't lived unless you've had some.

So that's my meal! I also had it yesterday for lunch and completely forgot to take pictures of it (for the blog was still kind of a spec in God's eye) so I had an excuse to make it again.

Hattie

Blanch blanch blanch GOBERRY

Yay summer food blog!!!!!

My summer of eating is starting off incredibly depressing-ly, as our own Blanchard is the only place open for meals right now.

So for breakfast today I had a rice cake with peanut butter, coffee, and yogurt and granola. But not the good granola... must remember to bring that in my bag tomorrow morning!

Today for lunch I had the culinary special, which was pasta with three sauces (red, alfredo, and pesto) but with rice. That was actually SO delicious.

Last night Megan and I went to GoBerry, and I'm probs going there again tonight. All I want is FroYo these days!!

Carol

Beginnings

Over this past semester, Carol, Cara, and I came up with a great idea: to start a food blog. We planned on posting meals and dishes we made or enjoyed over the summer, sharing recipes and rubbing in each others' faces what delicious delicacies the other was enjoying.

For each post, we must include a picture, the location, the date, which meal we had, and what the food was. Carol, please add posts about your time in Arizona! Cara and I will be surely posting things about vacation and any other exciting travels we may experience.

Enjoy!

Hattie