key lime pie, pure and simple

Today I am making a Key Lime pie for my husband to come home to after his golf outing. I will be out with a friend when he gets home, so I thought this little surprise on the kitchen counter would make him smile.
The recipe is super simple, again from foodnetwork.com, but this [...]

pesto & pepper chicken panini

Spring is finally here in Minnesota, so we decided to celebrate by going on our first hike of the year with our dog Charlotte and walking around the Living Green expo in St. Paul. Needless to say, we didn’t really think far enough ahead to pull anything out of the freezer to grill for dinner, [...]

the avocado redemption: guacamole

Hi everyone,
So last night we repurposed some grilled steak into steak fajitas, made simply by caramelizing some onion and blistering some red and yellow pepper slices, tossing in thin slices of the steak, and wrapping in a tortilla with cheese and sour cream. I decided that I’d try to make guacamole again, this time going [...]