As it turns out, sleep training is a thing that actually works. Who would have thought? (Probably, you know, all the experts.) After four months of having a baby with a college-freshman-style late night sleep schedule -- and an especially interesting month having a baby who did his best to boycott sleep altogether -- we have one who, somehow, ...
drinks
blood orange hibiscus spritzers
Thank you to Sanpellegrino for sponsoring this post and providing the products used in this recipe! All statements and opinions are solely my own. It's been hot again this week! I love it. Just as I was getting sad about the end of the summer and the evenings were getting seriously cool and crisp, the heat and humidity is back for just a little ...
aunt beru’s (grown up) blue milk // may the fourth be with you!
Happy Monday, friends! How was your weekend? I'm all fuzzy inside from a visit from my bridesmaids! Our weekend was filled with squishy sofa chats, pork buns and hibiscus doughnuts, ramen and peach jelly sake (so weird but so great), and a lot of pretty dress-shopping -- so, pretty much the best low-key bachelorette I could have asked for. I'm ...
carrot cake horchata & regular horchata
Black walnut scoop and spoon: Polder's Old World Market; vanilla extract: Oh, Ladycakes; ceramics: Speck & Stone, The Fortynine Studio, Akiko Graham via The-Commons; tea towel: Fog Linen. So I'm pretty sure I never really knew what horchata was for the longest time. It was just a drink that sounded vaguely delicious and that I suspected I was ...
homemade pumpkin spice latte syrup
So, first week of work down and I’m still alive! It’s true that it’s a little overwhelming, but lots of things make it more than okay -- foremost that I’m lucky to be working with great people who don’t mind that I have no idea what’s going on yet. But also -- what gets me excited in any situation, of course -- food. Like ordering food on the firm. ...
watermelon strawberry sangria
iced coffee from cold brew concentrate
So, it's really hot outside. (Evidently, it's fry-an-egg-and-bacon-on-the-sidewalk hot outside. Wow.) In light of that, I think it's the perfect time to share the recipe for cold brew concentrate that we've been using this summer for homemade iced coffee. (Take that, Starbucks! I'll wean off you yet.) Apartment Therapy saved my life last month ...
mint watermelon juice
We aren't doing much to celebrate this year, but one thing there's always time for is a good summer cocktail. I don't even know if this needs a recipe -- blend about 4-5 cups (a blender-full, basically) of watermelon cubes with a few leaves of mint, some ice if not chilled, ice cream if you like it (I added a few tablespoons of strawberry ice ...
milk-stout-shakes!
A few weeks ago, I came upon this ingenious idea for porter milkshakes on Yellow Brick Home, and was so floored. Beer milkshakes! Why did this never occur to me before? We're not frequent porter drinkers, but we are huge fans of Left Hand Milk Stout, and usually have it in constant supply. So it was an easy step to go out and buy some vanilla ice ...
