Summer Barley Salad

How the heck has half of the year already passed by already?! Since summer is in full swing I was inspired to use veggies that are readily available to me during this time of the year.  I cannot get enough of corn on the cob and tomatoes since this is the best time to eat them.  I think I could eat corn on the cob everyday.  Since salads are synonymous with summer, I thought I’d throw my two favorite summertime veggies into a salad.  The corn adds a little bit of crunch and a lot of flavor here. Barley… have you ever …

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Affogato

Guys, I seriously need your undivided attention because I’ve got something here that you are going to go bonkers over. I’ve found the next best thing to a frappuccino, maybe even better.  I’m obsessed with it.  Seriously… obsessed. Have you ever heard of an affogato?  It’s an Italian coffee based beverage where you take a scoop of ice cream or gelato and you top it with a hot shot of espresso.  What the what?!  I’d never heard of it until just the other day and knew that I had to make it immediately. Is it a dessert?  Is it a drink?  …

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Whole Wheat Bread

“I want a tomato sandwich,” says my husband.  We have no bread in the house, so what does he do?  My good man makes some. My husband loves a good old fashioned tomato sandwich with exactly three ingredients (tomatoes, mayo, and toasted whole wheat bread) and none of them are optional or interchangeable according to him.  This time when the need arrived we had some delicious on-the-vine tomatoes, a jar of mayonnaise, and a complete lack of whole wheat bread.  Being a guy that loves making bread, this problem merely slowed my boo down.  “I’m making bread,” says Dave.  I say, “Go for …

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Lighter Roasted Red Pepper Pasta

Mondays… They’re the pits.  Will a quick and easy recipe make it easier to handle?  One can hope. I love, love, love my Roasted Red Pepper Pasta and my husband says that it’s one of the best things that I’ve ever made.  (Thanks, babe!)  I’ve made it a handful of times, but I don’t make it as often as I’d like to because it’s not exactly what you’d call healthy eats.  The sauce in the original recipe contains a half a cup of heavy cream.  It sure is tasty and if you’re not counting calories then go for it.  If you are …

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Rosemary Bread

My husband has made this bread five or six times now and I’ve never managed to stop eating it long enough to take pictures of it.  That ends here.  🙂 Have you ever remembered a particular restaurant because they served you the most amazing complimentary bread ever?  This bread reminds me of something that I’ve had at a fancy restaurant.  The best part about making this bread is that you don’t have to get dressed up to enjoy it.  (And in this case, that my husband was actually the one to make it, even better!) There’s nothing worse than eating …

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