{One of our peonies, just before bloom. 6.2.16}
Hi! It has been awhile since I’ve checked in with a Nourishment Lately, but how excited I have been to do so. I have discovered some seriously amazing recipes lately, and I truly can’t wait to share!
This tomato sauce. Oh, this tomato sauce. This sauce is my new favorite thing. What I’ve been doing: I make this sauce, add some just undercooked spaghetti noodles and a tiny sprinkle of pecorino romano, sometimes some chopped fresh basil. Best dinner. I kind of not-so-secretly wish I could have this for dinner every single night. I have been making it once a week!
These mushroom walnut burgers. We have made these twice now, and both love them oh-so-much. We’ve intended to grill them, but got rained out each time, so on the stove it was. Changes I made – I used onions instead of shallots, used feta instead of blue cheese and doubled the recipe both times. How I recommend serving: very simply, on a lightly toasted bun, spread with a little bit of butter and some extra cheese, if you please. The simple serving lets the amazing taste of the burgers shine.
This roasted potato salad. This is the only potato salad I ever want. It is the best. Greg and I are both obsessed, and happened to make it as a side dish to the previously mentioned mushroom burgers both times we made them. Changes I made – I one time used dill instead of basil and the other time used basil, and liked it both ways. Also, I left out the walnut oil because I didn’t have any and just substituted a bit more olive oil. The best potato salad ever.
This perfect stovetop popcorn. I am seriously wondering why it took me 26 years to do stovetop popcorn? Now that I have, I am never going back. I never really gave stovetop popping a thought – in the past, it has always been a bag popped in the microwave. But, I recently had a popcorn craving, so one Friday night a couple of weeks ago, a night that we decided was a “movie night” (we watched “The Revenant” — highly, highly recommend!!), I decided to give stovetop popcorn a try. It was so easy! And delicious! I cannot wait to do it again, actually. For that batch, I drizzled the popcorn with melted butter and sprinkled with salt, smoked paprika and nutritional yeast.
These next three links are not food related, but are nourishing in a different way! I thought I’d start sharing “life” things like this as they seem relevant.
This. Lots of different thoughts on this, but I do believe it. Goes along with next link.
This post from Elizabeth Gilbert. I have been an Elizabeth Gilbert fan for a long time now, probably since time one of reading Eat Pray Love. And following her on Facebook is great. There are so many times when I consider deleting my FB account, but then I think of the EG posts I’d be missing, and I reconsider. 😉 She puts some seriously read-worthy stuff out there and her words really, really speak to me. I loved this post from her, it’s a great read, goes very well with the above quote from Pinterest and is such a great thing to discover.
Yoga with Adriene. I have been doing yoga on and off (but mostly on) for about 10 years in some form or another. For some time, I went to an amazing yoga studio in a town near where I grew up. But for most of those 10 years, I have done a home practice. And really, that’s what I prefer. I like to practice in the comfort of my own home, in my own time and space. I have followed several different yoga channels on YouTube over the years, but have now found the last one I will ever need. I started YWA last winter, just after Greg and I moved from Philly, and have fallen more and more in love with her practice every day. She encourages her viewers to “find what feels good” (in yoga, but in all of life, too) and to do yoga to feel supported and strong. I feel compelled to share the goodness of YWA with anyone and everyone! I could go on and on with praise, but if you are looking for something like this, trust me, and look no further.
Happy almost summer! 🙂