This is has nothing to do with my recipe but I am currently writing this post at a coffee shop. Thought I would take advantage of the ability to get out of the house finally. Feels nice to see live humans again! I just had to get that out there.....the things you take for granted! That being said, this recipe all started with me trying to get rid of a can of mango nectar. Great things sometime start from nothing! A lot of people ask me where I get ideas for my recipes. I have

Happy Valentine's Day!! I would love to tell you that I know what I am doing this year for Valentine's Day but I have no clue.....it's Josh's year to plan, so it's a surprise! We are a very competitive couple so we take turns trying to out plan the other each year. I think I am winning....but he does pretty good....for being a man. (No offense men, we love ya!) Josh and I have worked for a company called Party on the Rocks over the last few years. We bartend at different even

The next country on my travel list: MOROCCO! I have wanted to go there for so long. I remember watching an Anthony Bourdain episode where he traveled and ate his way through Morocco, it made me fall in love with Morocco more than ever before. The food and culture looked amazingly unique and delicious! One of my favorite condiments: HARISSA! I don't quite remember how I first discovered harissa but I have been throwing it in my cooking impulsively for the last few years. It is

I was about to make a really fancy pumpkin pie cocktail for this post, but I realized the world already has way too much pumpkin spice going on right now. Like, really, we get it, it's November and you know how to make everything out of pumpkin spice! I also realized that in all the chaos of the holiday, a nice simple cocktail would be the key to, you know, actually enjoying it. Thus, we have the mulled apple cider mule - elegant, delicious, great for groups, and liable to m

It is getting to that fowl part of the year…like where you eat more roasted birds, and enjoy the delightful weather that we get in the PNW about now. Autumn is going by too fast for my taste! We have an exciting event coming up where Emily and I will be doing a tutorial of our poultry spice rub and of one of our essential oil cocktails. We are so grateful that we are getting more and more opportunity to share our knowledge and experience cooking with essential oils. Emily has

It's almost summer! Nothing better than enjoying summer Hawaiian style! It's kind of hilarious to me that I am putting out a fruit salad recipe because I always make fun of how many fruit salad recipes are out there in the internet food realm. I almost feel like it is a food bloggers easy " I need to fulfill my recipe quota for the week and hey, its summer, how about a fruit salad!" save. I mean, when we have a BBQ don't we always dole out the fruit salad job to the obvious "

I want to start by addressing the elephant in the room...on the screen?...wherever the elephant is I am going to address it. I don’t actually think this drink is healthy for you. Shocked? Well, here is a secret...anyway you dress up alcohol it still isn’t spinach or chia seeds. Sorry! That being said, there are certainly healthier ways to partake of the nectar of the Gods. In this recipe I used On Guard, the protective blend by doTERRA, and as this blend is commonly used duri

It's Mother's Day soon! No better way to show your love than to bake something for your dearest mom, am I right? I have just the recipe for you....this delightful Ginger Rose Cake with Rose Water Icing! I would love to say that when I thought of making this recipe that I was thinking of Mother's Day and making this cake for my own mom and that we would sit and have tea and a slice of cake together and it would just be this magical day. Yeah.....no, that's not at all how this

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! I feel like I can already guess what some of you guys may be thinking...she is going to teach me how to stuff day old corned beef into a tortilla and make it something new, big deal. Well.... ...not exactly. It is funny because as I was literally in the middle of taking pictures of this recipe, I thought to myself, "why didn't I just make this into a how to use your "day old" corned beef into a re-purposed taco recipe" Answer: I admit it's partiall

Originally, I was going to be name this cocktail the Irish King because it has Chambord in it. In my mind, there really isn’t a more royal liquor than Chambord. It is a deep purple, made with black raspberries the cap has a crown on it, and even the shape of the bottle says ‘I must be worth it because I am going to be a pain in the ass to pour.’ After, combining the raspberries and the Irish cream this drink ended up looking more like a breakfast smoothie than it did a cockta

My favorite time of year is here! Seattle has been blustery the last few days and I am just loving it. All the leaves you see in my pictures are real authentic fall leaves collected right here in my beautiful Seattle neighborhood. The fall colors have been especially beautiful this year! Here in Washington up north of Seattle in Skagit County (where I spent most of my childhood) they have a Fall Festival every first weekend in October. I have been going every year for awhile