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Five End of Summer Recipes

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I’m trying my best to make the most of the end of my favorite season. For me that looks like spending as much time outside as possible, taking extra moments to be grateful for warm weather, and cooking with as much fresh produce as I can. In case you’re looking for a bit of end of summer cooking inspiration, here are five recipes from my site that are perfect for this time of year!

This peach + cucumber fresh lemonade. I haven’t made this lemonade in years, but looking back on the post has me craving it like crazy. This combination of peach, cucumber and lemon is so, so delicious and refreshing.

This peach + blueberry pico de gallo. This is an awesome appetizer, is so easy to make and would be so good right now with end of summer produce. Use this as a dip with tortilla chips or top your favorite tacos with it!

This late summer pasta: homemade noodles with pesto + tomatoes. This would be the perfect dish to cook on a summer day when all that you want to do is stay at home and cook a wonderful meal. There is something so special about making noodles from scratch and then adding fresh, seasonal produce to them. This is definitely on my end of summer cooking bucket list.

These herbed zucchini noodles with grilled shrimp and tomatoes. We’ve got lots of tomatoes right now in south central Pennsylvania, and they would be perfect in this light and summery dish. We are also trying to grill as much as possible right now, and this light and healthy dish is cooked completely on the grill.

This blueberry crisp. This recipe is not mine – it is from Shauna Niequist’s book Bread and Wine. I love this recipe so much that I shared it a few years ago on my blog, and I still love it the same. This crisp is made with olive oil, almond flour and nuts and makes a perfect snack, dessert or even breakfast. It’s wonderful with summertime blueberries – either fresh or frozen.

Happy end of summer cooking and eating!

Nourishment Lately 8.9.18

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{from my trip home in July ❤️ 7.7.18}

It’s been a while since I have shared one of these posts, so I thought I’d pop in today to share a few favorite things that have been bringing me nourishment lately!

Siggi’s 4% touch of honey yogurt. I know that I have talked about Siggi’s before, but my level of obsession with it has brought me to mention it again. Greg and I have both been eating Siggi’s touch of honey yogurt every day for breakfast – with a  bit of homemade granola and a bit of fruit for me. It is the best fuel.

French press coffee. Greg and I got our French press probably about six years ago, and for most of those six years, it was something that we used only on special occasions. For the past few months though, I have been obsessed with the French press and it is how I have been making my coffee every weekend morning. I am loving the slowness and routine of it – grinding the beans, boiling the water, stirring it together, waiting for it to brew and then pressing it. Currently in love with that. I’m not 100% sure of the brand we have, but I’m almost certain it’s the one I linked above.

Victory Brewing Company’s Sour Monkey. In the alcohol department, this is it for me right now. Greg and I have both been loving sour beers lately, and everything about this one is just right – very sour and very tart. 

Popsugar Fitness boot camp videos. Specifically this one and this one right now. I like adding these into my routine a couple of times a week, and I am really liking the boot camp style workout. I also really like being able to do this at home.

Big Magic. I’m a big Elizabeth Gilbert fan, and while I’ve known about this book for a while, it just now has called on me to read it. I am absolutely loving it so far – it’s the right read at the right time for me.

Nourishment Lately 3.23.18

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{Florida, 3/19/18, take me back!}

Here are a few things that have been nourishing me lately.

Terrible, Thanks for Asking. I have been on a podcast kick lately, (thanks, Greg! :)) and I am LOVING this podcast. I love hearing stories about people’s lives – and this podcast is basically that. I love that there is always something that you can take away from what you hear and that the podcasts provide such inspiration of thought and conversation. (I listen to podcasts through CastBox on my phone).

Perfect Bar. I’ve been seeing these bars on social media and decided to try one when I saw them in the store and oh my goodness, they are so delicious! And filling, and everything that I want in a store-bought granola bar. I will be buying more of these.

Morning exercise! When it comes to what time of day to exercise I feel like I’ve tried it all. Right now, for my schedule, I am LOVING morning exercise, specifically cardio. It’s sometimes a struggle to get myself out of bed that much earlier, but once I am up and do it, I feel so much better for the rest of the day – and it’s that awesome feeling that continues to motivate me to get up and do it. I feel so much more content sitting at my job all day when I know that I’ve moved in the morning. I have been doing a couple miles on the treadmill most mornings and doing yoga on the mornings that I feel I need a break.

I’ve been on a serious kick with several products that I’ve mentioned in previous nourishment lately posts, but feel are worthy of quickly sharing again! Obsessed right now with Siggi’s yogurt, Bota Box Wine, and GT’S Living Foods Trilogy kombucha. — those three things give me life right now 🙂 🙂

Everything in this post is basically my life right now! I don’t have much to share food-wise because I have not been trying too many new recipes lately. For dinners, we have been making something from Farmstead Butcher – usually a very simple preparation – with veggies. And breakfast has been Siggi’s with fruit and granola. That being said, do you have any recipes you have been loving? Or anything that I should try? Let me know in the comments!

Nourishment Lately 3.4.2018

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{smoothie bowl breakfast, 3/3/18}

Here are some things that have been nourishing me lately!

This salt and pepper roast chicken. I have very little experience cooking meat, so when we started eating it regularly, I turned to NYT Cooking and have been loving this simple salt and pepper roast chicken. I’ve been roasting a whole chicken just about weekly and have been keeping it pretty simple like this – except I’ve been stuffing lemon and garlic into the cavity and adding some other seasoning (thyme and turmeric are my favorite so far).

Popsugar Fitness. I know I’m late in discovering this, but I have been loving Popsugar Fitness videos lately, especially the ones using weights. 

Smoothie bowls. See above! I have been obsessed with smoothies for breakfast for a long time, but mostly just during the summer. I have been craving smoothies lately though, so on weekends I’ve been making smoothie bowl creations. My current obsession is: 1 banana (save a little to slice on top), handful of frozen berries, ~1/4 cup hemp seeds, 1 spoonful of peanut butter, 1 spoonful of yogurt, handful of spinach, small splash of almond milk. I’ve been serving it in a bowl, topped with sliced banana, granola and a drizzle of peanut butter.

These dark chocolate hemp energy bites. I crave chocolate all the time, and these energy bites are a perfect way to healthfully satisfy that craving. They are super easy to make and hold up well if not refrigerated all day.

Comment on this post and let me know – what recipes, food, thoughts, ideas and things have you been loving lately?

Nourishment Lately 2.22.18

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{sunset battlefield walk 2.20.18}

I sat down to type a nourishment lately post and realized that so much has changed since I last shared. I’ll keep a long story short, but after not eating meat for years, I am eating meat again (ahhhh!!!). Greg and I have changed the way we eat in the last few months and while we’re still consuming lots of plants, we are both now regularly eating animal protein too. Other than that, we’re still focused on eating whole, real foods. One of the main reasons I stopped eating meat was because of factory farming, so it has been important to me that the meat we consume is raised locally, humanely and naturally. Among other things, eating meat has reinforced my appreciation of food and nourishment, and I’m surely grateful for that. So, that all being said – I so badly want to get back into blogging a little more regularly and if I do, don’t be surprised if things seem a bit different food-wise. 😊 I do hope to be posting here more often, and while I’m not sure what that is going to look like, I hope to share more of what makes me happy and what nourishes me.

For now, what has been nourishing me lately:

Farmstead Butcher. I’ll start off with the amazing place where we have been getting our meat! We have been loving Farmstead Buther and would highly recommend it to anyone in the Gettysburg area!

Bota Box Wine. Can’t hide my love of wine and this one has been nourishing me greatly lately. 🙂

NYT Cooking. I have been needing to use recipes more than ever and while NYT Cooking has been a go-to for me for years, I have been loving what I am getting from them lately. 

GT’S Living Foods Trilogy kombucha. This has been life for me lately, and Greg too! We started drinking this a few months ago and now I can’t seem to go a day without it. I have a glass a day – before breakfast, and it makes me so happy :).

I’d love to know – what has been nourishing you lately?