The beautiful thing about Summer cooking is that it tends not to need much cooking at all. It is a chance to allow the fresh, flavorful food to shine. It is an opportunity to spend&hellip
Foodie Friday
Foodie Friday: Cherry Chocolate Chip Pie
If you are not into pie crusts (Linz, I’m talking to you!) then this is a pie for you. This dessert allows you to enjoy fresh fruit in pie form without that pesky dough. It&hellip
Foodie Friday: Blueberry & Strawberry Salad
All winter long I have fallen head over heels with a Blood Orange & Kale Salad from Spoon Fork Bacon. With Summer in full swing I was wanting a version of this salad, but one&hellip
Foodie Friday: Roasted Strawberry Crostini
I love how fresh fruit can be used in just about every meal, including appetizers. Here is a simple fruit crostini involving a basil syrup, goat cheese and roasted strawberries from Confections of a Foodie&hellip
Foodie Friday: Blueberry Dessert Pizza
This weekend Linz and I are going to be hanging out at one of our favorite places, our friend Jessica’s family blueberry farm. It therefore felt fitting that we should feature a blueberry recipe today.&hellip
Book Review: The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook by Kate Macdonald
When thinking of the theme of time, I think books are the perfect example. They allow a person to stop the time around them and be transported into another world, another era. My childhood was&hellip
Foodie Friday: Chilled Cucumber and Apple Soup
Linz and I LOVE soup. That is made pretty clear around these parts when leaves start to change color, and a warm bowl hits the spot on cold days. But what about on these hot&hellip
Foodie Friday: Dulce de Leche & Stout Trifle
There’s something pretty cool about trifle as a dessert: it’s attitude. Trifle is all like, “Yeah, I can dress up and be fancy if I want to.” But then, you turn around, and it’s saying,&hellip
Foodie Friday: Boston Cream Pie
The weather has been a little funky around here and frankly I like it. Sunny days, warms days and dare I say it, even rainy days that I have enjoyed. There is something about a&hellip
Foodie Friday: S’more Experimental Baking
Sometimes kitchen experiments work out wonderfully. Other times they fail. Then there are the ones in between: they can’t be deemed full-out successes, but they’re not terrible. Today’s Foodie Friday dish is one of those&hellip
Foodie Friday: Food Lover’s Cleanse
One of the fun things about doing this blog with Linz is that we do not often coordinate our individual posts and they are a surprise even to each other. I am just as excited&hellip
Foodie Friday: More Veggies, Please!
Sometimes New Year’s Resolutions suck. The New Year comes just after the Christmas whirlwind, when bank accounts are low, waistlines are expanded, and the weather is gloomy. I like the idea of NYR’s, but the&hellip
Foodie Friday: Turkish White Bean Wrap Sandwiches
A few months ago Linz gave me a cute, slender book called, ‘100 Words for Foodies‘. A fun companion guide for anyone cooking in the kitchen and looking to learn some new culinary terms. Along&hellip
Foodie Friday: Chocolate-Orange Gingerbread Pudding Cookies
One of the first recipes I ever made all by myself as a kid were pudding chocolate chip cookies. I think I found the recipe in an old family cookbook. Moist and fluffy, the basic&hellip
Foodie Friday: Cranberry Salsa
I actually made this Cranberry Salsa back during the holiday season, but somehow forgot to get around to posting it. I think it is a nice alternative to your classic salsa and chips potluck item.&hellip
Foodie Friday: Jessica’s Blueberry Chicken
Rounding out our week of guest bloggers, we are delighted to have one of our favorite Oregon country girls, Jessica Stokke, share with us one of her best recipes for Foodie Friday. ~Jess & Linz&hellip
Foodie Friday: Chai Biscotti
I am in love with chai tea. When ordering my coveted chai tea latte with soy milk at coffee shops it tends to be made with the tasty Oregon Chai brand. When coming up with&hellip
Foodie Friday: Red Wine Chocolate Truffles
Just in time for that well known lovey-dovey holiday, Linz and I wanted to share with you a chocolate treat we made featuring red wine. If you are not from the Pacific Northwest than you&hellip
Foodie Friday: Broiled Grapefruit
I am an unabashed lover of breakfast, as you probably know already. While I love making breakfast foods at home, my favorite weekend activity is going out to brunch. My very favorite location in a city bursting&hellip
Foodie Saturday: Wild Mushroom and Butternut Squash Bread Pudding
With the theme of Oregon currently on my mind I have been attempting to try out some dishes which feature food grown in Oregon. This wild mushroom and butternut squash bread pudding works wonderfully as&hellip
jess + linz
Friends since middle school, we continue to inspire each other to be creative in our big, adult lives. Each season we take on a new theme to guide our crafting, cooking, and creating. We're up for trying anything, and things are bound to get messy. But that's just the way we like it.