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 officially summer! We all know what that means...IT'S STRAWBERRY SEASON!! We bought a whole flat and still almost didn't have enough for the recipe - truthfully, they almost didn't even make it home. There is nothing better than a fresh, actually ripe, red all-the-way-through strawberry. For years I grew my own strawberries. I had careful plant spacing and watering techniques, I even had methods for sprouting new starts. My strawberry garden was pristine, not just on

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

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

The old fashioned and I have quite a history.  In fact, I lost a job because of this drink… Whiskey forward; that is probably the way that most people would describe a typical old fashioned.  I agree and in the beginning I didn’t appreciate the intricacies that could be created in this whiskey forward drink.  I have now come to love this drink and have over time shaped my own style of making it; of course, involving essential oils. I had my first old fashioned while visiting

Let me paint a most delicious picture for you (be prepared to drool)… We were walking around the Bite of Seattle and came across a malasadas food truck. When Emily and her mom saw it they got very excited! I, not having ever had them before, was confused why we were so excited about these small, quite expensive doughnuts. Then I bit into one. Suddenly I understood why they had been so passionate. I then wondered how I, a doughnut lover, could have missed this wonderful gem wh