~~posted by Jen Dee’s Thai Shrimp Welcome to our very first “Recipe Remix” post. A recipe remix is exactly what it sounds like, we take an ingredient (in the case of this recipe it’s a sauce) or dish from a previous recipe and remix it into a whole different dish! This will help many of you who are faced with …

~by Nikki This might sound corny but, this is a recipe that was born of friendship. Which makes it precisely the kind of recipe I love. You guys know me well enough now to know there’s almost ALWAYS a story behind my food. So my wonderful friend Pam sent me a picture of something called “peanut butter salad.” It looked …

by Nikki Last week when I was at the farmer’s market I saw something that made me very, very happy. A child devouring a big ol’ hunk of meat on a stick. I thought to myself “summer must be coming.” Meat on a stick, to me, evokes memories of state carnivals, funnel cakes and other types of summer time fun. …

I used to love this stuff. Creamy, super sweet, cold…what’s not to love? I’d drink it alongside a mountainous plate of Pad Thai…I should look up how many calories all that would be. Yikes. Maybe not. Anyway…even this specialty drink is not off limits for us! It is, however, off-limits for drinking at the same time as you eat…even if …