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

My new favorite autumn breakfast! Sometimes just a bowl of something healthy and delicious will help start your day off just a little bit better. I decided to make this recipe for a few reasons: 1. I feel like every food blogger needs one of those over the top beautiful porridge recipes. 2. I had a butternut squash sitting around that I really needed to use. 3. I was tired of making myself Cream of Wheat everyday and decided I needed something a little more exciting (and heal

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 is FOOTBALL season! Which everyone knows means wings, wings, wings....am I right? That's probably one of the only reasons I watch football honestly, unless I am rooting for the Seahawks. I do live in Seattle after all, I feel like its an obligatory duty. We just won the first few games of the season so hopefully we can continue this winning streak! If not...I'll just sit, enjoy my time with friends and munch on a pile of these spicy mango chutney wings! Pretty much a win,

Every cook has the point where they realize that their last few recipes have left them with containers of this or that in their fridge. Now hopefully if this person is a good cook, they are leftovers you don't want to waste! I have a fool proof system of how to solve this dilemma. If it is meat or vegetable it ends up in an scramble, if it is greens, it either ends up sautéed or in a smoothie, and if it is fruit puree or juice it becomes a cocktail! I love this particular rec

I could not be happier about the return of copper river salmon here in Washington! It's always exciting when this delicious item starts showing up in the local stores! That is one great benefit of living here in the Pacific Northwest, is the abundance of salmon, which I LOVE!! People here in Washington are so spoiled on their quality of salmon.....probably the same way Maine is spoiled with the quality of their lobster. I ended up buying two of fillets of the salmon. One of

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

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

I have come to love moonshine, particularly the apple pie variety, and when you mix that with peaches you end up in heaven! I actually owe most of the inspiration for this cocktail to PF Changs, not so much because they created it, but because they inspired me with one of their cocktails. I suppose that I also owe a good portion of it to laziness because I wasn’t willing to go to the store for the ingredients I was missing to make the drink they have. Giving credit where cred