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Fresh Tomato Butter Sauce + Spaghetti Squash

June 5, 2018 by funnyloveblog Leave a Comment

Raise your hand if you recently had surgery and ate all of the things while not moving for nearly a month!!!

Jay is raising his hand right now. We’ve had the weirdest few months – we were all three sick in increments so basically someone in the house was sick for over a month, then Jay traveled for work, then had surgery, and in that time frame we decided that CARBS AND DAIRY GOOD and KALE BAD. Which honestly emotionally was exactly what we needed, but still. Can’t do that forever, sad aging bodies don’t work well that way. Now, let me be super clear that I think Jay looks no different and he’s maintained a super duper great outlook on health and food in 2018 so far, BUT, I definitely get that sometimes after a slump it feels great to eat especially lighter or healthier meals. For us, that means less/no red meat, fewer carbs, and smaller portions. We aren’t cutting out anything exactly, but more fish + veggies + vegetarian options feels great to us right now. With cheese on top.

So to continue our Whole30-is-over-but-white-carbs-aren’t-great way of eating, spaghetti squash is back in the house with a fun vengeance, because we both love it. The idea for this fresh sauce came from Pinch of Yum, which I read all the time and adore, and serving it over spaghetti squash seemed like a no-brainer. The way to make this delicious is a teeny bit of butter in the sauce, parm on top, and LIBERAL use of salt and pepper. Unsalted anything isn’t great, but an unsalted healthy-on-purpose meal is just the most sad. Salt for president!

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Yogurt Pesto Dip with Burrata + Roasted Tomatoes

May 29, 2018 by funnyloveblog 1 Comment

So now that we’re officially past the unofficial first weekend of summer we can definitely start eating foods like this every day for dinner and all weekend drenched in rose, right?

You get me.

Did you have any fun at all this weekend? It poured here all day yesterday and we spent Saturday and Sunday doing house project after house project because our addition is almost-basically-will-never-be-fully DONE, but done enough that we’re in it and frankly if the contractor never does his final few items then he never gets his final million dollars and that’s fiiiiiiine with us, you know? So we’re in the new space, it’s bright and fresh and clean and we are SO happy with it, and with that came a gazillion small and large organizing tasks, moving things around, hanging things on walls, all of the things. It’s far from done, but we did a ton of work on it this weekend and then tons of TV watching yesterday with Beck including her first experience with Moana, which was super special and fun. I’m not sure she grasped much of the story, but every time Moana made any kind of a sad face, Beck was certain “she just misses her Mama!”

So! Now that we used a holiday weekend to do chores, we are READY for summer. We’re kicking off our June with a baby sprinkle on Saturday for my bff Heather, and this is going to feature prominently on a very-massive cheese board that I have planned. I’ve made this a few times already in the spring, and have never had any leftovers, which is how I gauge the success of a new dish. The summer flavors scream at you in the best possible way: a quick pesto yogurt dip, creamy burrata torn over top, roasted cherry tomatoes for tang and to round out the caprese feel of the dish. Olive oil, salt and pepper top the dish AND the bread that I highly recommend grilling – grilling all of the things all summer is the name of our game.

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4th of July Cookout

July 2, 2017 by funnyloveblog 1 Comment

Happy Sunday! Aka the second day of the second half of the year. I know.

But! We have a few more days of long weekend (do you have tomorrow off? we do not.), hopefully some great cookouts coming tomorrow and Tuesday, and several more weeks of summer that definitely provide justification for killer-yummy food at gatherings.

Here are some of our summer favorites!

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Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken

May 11, 2017 by funnyloveblog 1 Comment

Because summer!

I’ve probably mentioned here before that Jay’s favorite sauce is barbecue. A cross between tang and sweet, but he’ll use the dark red bottled stuff in a pinch. I think that stuff is gross (always too sweet, never spicy), but I do like making my own sauces, especially in the summer.

This recipe is nothing earth-shattering, but dumping a bunch of stuff in a slow cooker and letting a sauce form while chicken cooks is a killer trick to have at the end of the school year when you’re so.close. to the finish line and it’s getting warm and no one has any motivation but also you still need to eat dinner, you know?

So here goes. Stuff gets dumped in with chicken, you go finish a project that your kid forgot about until just this instant, then you eat a BBQ chicken sandwich because you’ve earned it. Add a beer or 4 and call it a night.

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Greek Yogurt Dill Caesar Pasta Salad

August 3, 2016 by funnyloveblog 1 Comment

WITH ALMONDS AND CHICKEN WITH ALMONDS AND CHICKEN.

Guys. I had the best problem ever this morning when I sat down to write this.

I had too many good recipes to write about that I could hardly decide.

What a great time to be alive, right? I feel like I’m in a quasi-groove of my new job and my old jobs and the blog and the baby and being gentle with myself for not being able to DO ALL THE THINGS, and it’s a good problem to have, having tons of yummy food to share. A bad problem is that WordPress took away the red squiggly line and now I don’t know when I spell things wrong? Can someone tell me how to turn that back on? Thanks.

And so this salad. It’s a total feel-good, easy-peasy, use-what-you-have, summer salad. The dressing MAKES it, and the rest of it is just leftovers, seriously. Any salad stuff you have, leftover pasta, leftover chicken, some almonds for crunch, and delectable dressing. The yogurt + dill is decidedly summer, which means you have a month or so left to make this and it not feel weird.

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summer

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