pizza & prosecco

June 11, 2012 in summer, holidays and celebrations, family, pizza

the tradeoff of not being within a bike ride's distance of kesté and forcella is that i have the space to throw little backyard friday night pizza parties! and during a month when everything should be done outside, grilling pizza makes pizza night all the more sexy.

the menu:
{pineapple + jalapeño + mozzarella + black pepper + tomato}
{squash + ricotta + caramelized onion + arugula}
{mozzarella + tomato + fresh basil + garlic}

...all smokey, slightly burnt, and just perfect to share with friendsies.
oh and we can't forget dessert: frozen greek yogurt, mixed berries, and a slice of cookie cake.

-yeh!

my big fat suburban summer

June 05, 2012 in summer, family

this is what the yard looks like.

this is what the spoon rack near the front door looks like.

this is what i look like, crunchy and makeup-less.

this is what the fence to the garden looks like.

this is what my summer office looks like,

this is what my other summer office looks like.

this is what my breakfast looks like...
{for now, until i cave to egg mcmuffins.}
-yeh

bruschetta, prematurely

June 04, 2012 in summer, mum, family, recipe

are you pretentious or informed if you pronounce bruschetta broosketta?

i am shaking in my little space booties waiting for tomato season to get here. i can't wait. i can't i can't. tomatoes are the best and most of my best friends hate tomatoes so that means more for me! teehee. i associate being home and sitting by my pool with a tomato and mozzarella and basil sandwich. so even though the pool is not yet ready and the tomatoes are not yet ripe, my impatience got the best of me and i made broosketta. i tossed some baby tomatoes in a butt-ton of garlic, olive oil, salt, and herbies, roasted them, added basil from the garden, and then shoveled them into my mouth anxiously with the rosemary bread that mum had just baked. hopefully this will hold me over.

-yeh!!!!