restful wednesdays

what do you do when you have a quiet night in cause travy's having a guys night @ a baseball game?!

this: 

enjoying bread + wine, snuggled up with my new cute blanket + a glass of wine!

this book is perfect gift for mother's day! i highly recommend it. the book already has paragraphs underlined, the whole bottom section of the book has wavy pages (was reading it on the tub + accidentally dropped it in), recipes marked + ready to test! 

shout out to my sweet d grouPIES who bought it for my birthday. loving it!

what does your night in look like?!

xoxo

quinoa quail bowls

my sexy huntin' husband did a nice lil diddy for us.

 

in his last week of bird hunting, he killed a ton of quail {good work babe! bringing home the bacon... or bird!}

 

it's been in our freezer for two weeks and we decided to make some goodness happen!

 

so we made quinoa quail bowls!

 

he had already gutted the quail (or else he wouldn't have been allowed to put them in our freezer!). so he cut off the bones + into mouth size bites.

 

 

after that (i forgot to marinate them for the day), we put them in a skillet with some italian dressing. cooked those bad boys up!

 

 

mixed in the quinoa, brocoli + quail!

 

 

 

it was an easy, yummy dish for all you hunter's wives!

 

for all you non-huntin' people, get to hunting! JK. no but for real, come over for dinner sometime soon. i find that nothing is sexier than eating something my hubby killed!

 

hope ya'll have a great tuesday!

 

xoxo

 

hot spots.

if you ever catch me looking upset, disgruntled, or even mad, it's probably because i'm hungry.

one thing you must know about me is i love good food! check out some new hot spots i've been loving lately.


the penthouse @ huntley

this spot is HOT. it has a 360 degree view of santa monica beach/la hills. i want to take the center of the bar, filled with candles of different heights and sizes, and put it in my home one day! it's gorgeous! the decor is chic and clean. each table has white linens on the side with a window view so it made it a little intimate.

AND THE FOOD! i ordered the salmon and all i can say is, i think they caught it right before they served it. it was so fresh! trav ordered (me) some mac + cheese (obviously) and i about died. i L.O.V.E mac + cheese. even at fancy restaurants. pair that with a glass of wine from england and you are set!

that was all great but the company was even better:

great (double) date night spot. thanks jamin for taking us there! loved it.

abricott in pasadena

when i have a home one day, i'll have the designers of abricott do it. what a fun spot! the ambiance is so on point it's not even funny! every detail about the decor is fabulous. i wanna say they went to rosebowl flea market and bought everything wonderful from it! it's so unique.

i LOVE their breakfast + dinner! and it's a great patio so you better believe i checked that one off the bucket list! they don't have a corkage fee so bring on the wine!

whenever y'all come out to visit, this is most likely the place i will take you. and we can even walk there! it's only .6 miles from our home!

leone cafe in las vegas!

my mom brought me here a couple weeks ago when we were in vegas. i wish this spot was there when i lived there cause i would have bought myself a cup of coffee and read for dayz (ya i know there's a z after day- it's on purpose) there! it's really gorgeous and the food is great too! sometimes they have a farmer's market at tivoli so be sure to go to leone when they do (prime people watching!).

hope you enjoyed my list of eats!

i shared mine - now you share yours!
xo

story time sunday: food.

i have been loving cooking + baking in the kitchen lately. but what i especially enjoy is the bellies i have been feeding with all of this food!

last week, i made chicken enchiladas for trav + some of his best buds and boy oh boy is it a project feeding 7 grown men! (single ladies who marry any of the 4 single guys in this pix or the one who is taking this pix (sorry kent)- come get this enchilada recipe from me! they will marry you on the spot! ha) love y'all!

(we never found the magnuson's did we?!?! LOL)

here are two of my new favorite recipes this summer:

pear salad. ingredients:

-sliced pears

-pistachios

-spinach (or whatever leaf you prefer) 

-feta (for trav) goat (for me)

-light balsamic vinaigrette 

so light + nice for lunch/dinner.

shauna niequist's blueberry crisp.
(not only is she my favorite author- she's my new favorite cook! she's writing a new book of recipes + simple entertaining. cannot wait for the release. {bread+wine} thanks for blogging this gem!)

Ingredients

4 cups blueberries (or any fruit, really)

Crisp topping:

1 cup old fashioned oats

½ cup pecans

½ cup almond meal (available at Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, health food stores, or made by putting almonds in food processor until fine, but before they turn to almond butter)

¼ cup maple syrup

¼ cup olive oil

½ tsp salt

Instructions

Pour four cups fruit into 8x8 pan. Spread crisp topping over the fruit. Bake at 350 degrees 35-40 minutes, or longer if topping and fruit are frozen, until fruit is bubbling and topping is crisp and golden. 

Serves 4 

serve with some yogurt. so good!

hopefully your bellies have been full of great food this summer + even better memories to go along with it! can't believe fall is upon us soon. let's soak up the sun, BBQ's + watermelon while we can. 

xoxo

cutest.

i feel like my blog has turned from a single lil lady loving life blog to an obsession with my boyfriend blog. lol it's all because he is so wonderful.

so one night we were texting about dinner plans. he was going to take me out so he asked what kind of food i wanted. my reply: something similar to red velvet cafe (cause arizona doesn't have a rvc). so i come home from work, and see this lil note on my front door with this amazing man cooking me the best meal with a fresh bouquet of flowers, sparkling lemonade, fresh chicken salad and a dashing young man! it was so cute. i love him.

back from europe- onto yogurtland.

go visit the best place on this side of town! yogurtland on 2-15 and flamingo! it's the best frozen yogurt with great, fresh toppings. my fave right now is pomegranate raspberry tart and blueberry tart! yum! go in and tell them i sent you :) haha just joking. say hi to kp though!

europe pictures soon to come!