This dish might be the most perfect summer dish e.v.e.r. I’ve been making it all summer for potlucks, picnics, snacks, easy lunches — it’s a dish for all occasions! Mostly I’m just 100% addicted to burrata and watermelon both individually and collectively. I know it’s Labor Day and the internet is basically in fall-land now…
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Stone Fruit & Heirloom Tomato Mozzarella Basil Salad
Uuuh yes yes yes yes! Summer in a bowl! CAN YOU TELL I AM EXCITED!? Sorry for yelling. But srsly, this is DEE-LICIOUS. Welcome to part three of the picnic extravaganza! Check out the basil hummus and summer corn quinoa salad if you missed those earlier this week! {Also, let’s give my assistant, Marc, a…
Summer Corn Quinoa Salad
Today we have part TWO of the picnic extravaganza we started on Monday. Woop woop! This summer corn quinoa salad is ridiculously easy to throw together — I actually felt really lame writing the recipe (see below) because literally… throw it all together, and mix. Then eat in massive quantities like you’ll never see corn or…
Summer Produce Picnic + Basil Hummus Recipe
This post was sponsored by Way Better Snacks. Thank you for supporting the brands that keep The Kitchen Paper up and running! Summer in Portland: A DREAM. Except when it’s 100+ degrees, BUT that rarely happens so I maintain: summer in Portland = A DREAM. It’s been a while since I’ve popped in here, so…
Apple Rhubarb Crisp
I have a plant problem. Seriously, I can’t stop buying houseplants! This is a totally new thing — with the exception of a few little potted flowers I made my parents buy me as a kid (and then I promptly lost interest in), I’ve never been into houseplants. Or really, plants at all. I just…
Summer Veggie Mung Bean Salad
{You guys! My cookbook, Nut Butters, is being included in a cookbook giveaway at Barn2Door! You can enter HERE!} This salad: all the summer things. ALL THE SUMMER VEG IN THE LAND! Kind of. Plus mung beans. Why mung beans? No real reason. A month ago Whole Foods had a sale on all bulk foods…
Maple Coconut Milk Blueberry Popsicles
Ummm I think I’d better share these puppies before summer is really REALLY over… They’re too good to keep until next summer! This weekend brought us some much-appreciated rain, and cooler weather, in Portland. Hallelujah! I am so SO SO ready for fall (reasons number one two and three), and now I’m convinced it’ll actually…
Beet Cilantro Gazpacho
Things I’ve learned recently: Getting bangs during summer, especially when a bicycle (WITH A HELMET) is your main mode of transport: terrible idea. #sweatybangs Trading the bike for a ride on the bus is an unexpected way to get some air conditioning in your life. Eating cold beet soup with lots of cucumbers *almost* makes…
Pecan Basil Pesto
Now that the 4th of July has passed, EVERYONE in the USA can claim it’s summer. You know those people who are like “Oooh but I live way North, so it’s not summer till after the 4th!” — you know the type. NOW they have to admit it’s summer — and if you look at…
Strawberry Lime Coconut Water Slushie
MONDAAAAAY! Monday in the house. I’m actually super excited about it because, to be totally honest, I’ve been really looking forward to today: it marks the end of the busiest two weeks of my life. FO REALS. I’m not usually that person that’s like “OMG I’M SO BUSY” … but I’ve totally been that person….
Asian Sesame Chicken Chop Salad
I’m about to confess something that, while probably not actually that terrible, I see as so truly embarrassing and SMH-worthy I should just go crawl into a hole and hide. Brace yourselves. After canceling my Netflix account before we left for Asia, I re-subscribed AND I LOVE IT. There it is. It’s out there in…
Ultimate Chili Dogs
I hesitate to say it, but I feel fall coming! Not because the heat has subsided — it hasn’t — but because summery thing are coming to a close! The students came back last week, and classes started on Monday. Living directly across the street from campus, and in the heart of fraternity-ville, we can…
Purple Basil Caprese Salad
First post as a married woman — say whaat?! Yep, we tied the knot this weekend and IT. WAS. AWESOME. Seriously, I would not have changed a single thing about the day: it was truly perfect. And I’ll be the first to admit that I’m critical — I was worried I’d pick the day apart,…
Grilled Peach Spring Rolls with Spicy Cilantro Pesto
THIS is what I was preparing you for on Monday with that spicy cilantro almond pesto! I whipped that up specifically for the purpose of devouring it in these rolls. YES. I know I’ve professed my love of spring rolls before (probably with these thai peanut shrimp bowls!), but this has gone to an entirely…
Strawberry Vanilla Mint Galette
{Have you entered to win a KitchenAid mixer yet? I’m giving one away here!} Before this last week of incredibly rainy Bozeman weather, it was feeling like summer! Too hot to go running mid-day (well, 70 F), deliciously sunny, and PERFECT pie weather! I’ve been craving pie. Like you wouldn’t believe. The issue is…
Spicy Baked Onion Rings
Onion rings. You just can’t go wrong with onion rings — am I right? Onion rings feel like summer. Carefree, kind of indulgent, delicious, and full of happy. Those last four words happen to describe my current state of mind, as well.