home decor // framed instagram photos in the living room
Following up on my post last year about how to print and frame Instagram photos using MagCloud, here’s how I’ve used this project to decorate our living room. Continue reading
recipe // roasted eggplant with buttermilk sauce & pomegranate seeds
My latest cookbook obsession is Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty. I received it as a gift and let it sit on the shelf unused for a while, wrongly assuming that the recipes were too labor intensive for everyday meals. Living with someone who loves anything made with eggplant though, I couldn’t avoid making the cover dish for long. Continue reading
recipe // warm-the-heart chili
This chili recipe comes from my friend Lauren, who is not only a great photographer but also an excellent cook. I’m convinced that this recipe may just be the perfect weeknight meal. As a bonus, it’s the perfect comfort food for escaping chilly February weather with your Valentine. Continue reading
recipe // wild rice gratin with kale, caramelized onions and baby swiss
Knowing that I have a bit of an obsession with the Smitten Kitchen blog, my wonderful boyfriend bought me the new Smitten Kitchen cookbook for our anniversary a few months ago. I’ve cooked a handful of the recipes, some of them multiple times, and stickynoted almost all the rest for future occasions (my real world version of pinning). Everything I’ve made so far has been awesome – I honestly can’t recommend this cookbook enough.
The wild rice gratin with kale, caramelized onions, and baby swiss is one of the recipes I’ve made on multiple occasions. It’s kind of like hearty comfort food, packed with rice, veggies and just the right amount of cheese, and coated with a crisp bread crumb crust. It’s gotten rave reviews from vegetarians and meat eaters alike, and is a relatively easy dish for a midweek meal. Continue reading
recipe // butternut squash soup with pumpkin seed-mint pesto
This is a great fall recipe from Sunset. They suggest serving it in mini pumpkins, and using fresh pumpkin instead of squash, but I was not feeling that ambitious for a post-work meal. Instead, I used the pre-cut butternut squash from Trader Joe’s (2 bags of it, to be exact), an immersion blender to puree the soup, and a food processor to make the pesto, and in under an hour was serving it up in perfectly acceptable ceramic bowls with a side of olive bread. Continue reading
home decor // bathroom refresh for fall
Our bathroom is very white – white walls, white tile, white laminate. Being a rental, we can’t change any of this, but it does make for a nice blank canvas. Until recently, the white theme had continued with a white shower curtain and white towels, and only a small pop of color in the green rug. Last weekend, I got inspired to do a fall update when I saw this shower curtain on clearance at Target in rust. I managed to steer clear of white and get coordinating rust and deep gray towels, an incredibly comfortably gray rug, and mercury glass accessories. Continue reading
recipe // roasted brussels sprouts with garlic aioli
This recipe was a Pinterest find from the blog Costa Kitchen. The photographs looked so delicious that I ended up making the recipe the same day I found it, and I have a feeling it won’t be the last time. It was a breeze to make and tasted incredible – Nick got out a fork because eating them by hand wasn’t happening fast enough. Continue reading
creative // custom recipe cards
Inspired by the gorgeous Rifle Paper Co lemon recipe cards, I decided to create custom recipe cards as a birthday gift for my sister. Her name and the various fruits and vegetables were painted with watercolors and then scanned into a computer to add the lines and “from the kitchen of” text. They were then printed our on blank A7 flat cards from Paper Source in luxe white. Continue reading
creative // crawfish notecard
Pen and watercolor sketch of a crawfish on a blank notecard.
project // printed & framed instagram photos using magcloud
Last month, MagCloud introduced a handful of new product types, including a new Poster format. In addition to being a great way to advertise an event or new product for your business, these new Posters are also a great opportunity to get large format prints of your photos at an affordable price. With that in mind, today I am going to show you how easy it is to make framed art for your home using MagCloud’s new Poster format, and a photo taken with the popular photo app Instagram. Continue reading
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