SAILOR WIFE

On Saturday, I helped my mom host our second house party in two weeks which was my dad's retirement party. Tomorrow I'm not only recapping my dad's retirement party, but I'm also sharing my dad's favorite cake recipe, carrot cake! It was a fun weekend celebrating my dad, but I really needed one meal I could eat all week before Chase & I head off to Maui later this week! Chicken Pot Pie Casserole is the kind of dish you throw on sweatpants, grab a big bowl, and plop yourself d

Chorizo is really having a moment in our house & with Chase's crew offshore (who's currently working on a three month project in San Francisco). If you are looking for a way to kick up your usual pasta dish, here's the recipe to do it: Chicken Fettuccine Chorizo Alfredo Ingredients: 1 pound of your favorite pasta (mine is not fettuccine! even though I still call the dish that...) 8 oz sleeve of your choice of chorizo 1/2 cup butter 1 cup heavy whipping cream 1 lemon, juiced &

I should start off by saying I. AM. ALIVE. I know I've been MIA from the blogging world. That has primarily been because of an all consuming project Chase and I have been working on. Now, I love Chase dearly, and I won't say he's a psycho, but I will say he's definitely an advocate for doing things like painting your entire house in 36 hours. In Chase's defense, we have been talking about painting the house since the day we moved in and we have been anxiously awaiting the tim

Hopefully everyone had a long & relaxing weekend...I sure didn't but more on that later this week (hint: at least I was planning two food-filled events!!). Something about short weeks feel SO busy, which means it's the perfect time to whip up a Make Ahead Meal. Everyone has their opinions about leftovers (full disclosure: I'm staunchly in the pro-leftover camp), but there are some foods that just really taste better with time. I call these meals Make Ahead Meals and I always

If you caught my Friday Favorites last week you saw that my favorite weekend cooking tradition is to whole roast a chicken on Sundays. You also read that I wasn't the biggest fan of chicken growing up- I just didn't grow up eating it (#redmeatalldayeveryday). And then I met Chase. He made me appreciate chicken & introduced me to ground turkey (did I grow up under a rock???) Over the past couple of years I've cooked A LOT of chicken and discovered whole roasting chicken is my

favorite weekend jam: This weekend is all about figs! Our two fig trees have so much fruit and I'm rushing to pick figs before the squirrels steal them (if you follow me on Instagram you've heard about this saga...) so I'm making jars & jars of fig jam. I'll be making a fig vanilla bean jam and a fig blueberry jam. I'll force my family to taste test them so I can tell you the favorite. (Also featured in this picture is my ALL TIME FAVORITE FOOTWEAR, CROCKS! at some point I'll