I am SO ready for spring! Around this time every year, I tend to start making more “springy” recipes in the hopes that the weather picks up on my strong hints for warmer weather. And what are more spring than peas especially in this recipe for Orzo Pasta with Peas Lemon and Feta?
This recipe for Kritharoto (Orzo Pasta with Peas Lemon and Feta) is from the most recent Cooking Light magazine.
In this recipe, Kirtharoto (or orzo pasta) is cooked in a chicken stock, tossed with fresh herbs and citrus, and topped with feta cheese. This simple recipe is on the table in under 30 minutes too!
Ingredients:
3 cups unsalted chicken stock or vegetable stock to make vegetarian
If I was forced to eat one food for the rest of my life, I wouldn’t be terribly upset if it was salmon. That probably isn’t much of a surprise to those that follow this blog, I have almost 40 Salmon Recipes on here! So, I might as well add another one to the list, this recipe for Pistachio Crusted Salmon with Roasted Mustard Potatoes!
For whatever reason, I had a hankering for pistachios recently, so I figured I might as well crust my favorite protein in a pistachio-panko mixture, how bad could it be? Not bad. Not bad at all. In fact, delicious!
I made this salmon with some baby potatoes roasted in a stone ground mustard, so I added the mustard to the salmon as well to keep the flavors consistent. Since I whipped this up the first time, I’ve already made it twice more!
Ingredients:
For the potatoes:
1.5 lbs baby potatoes (I used a baby potato “medley”), halved
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No day of mine begins without a cup (or two) of coffee. My fiance and I are both early risers to get to work, so we tend to rush through the coffee drinking process during our commute. But on weekends, we get to finally sit down and truly enjoy our coffee and each other’s company.
Saturday and Sunday mornings are “reserved” for my fiance and I to catch up on each other’s weeks, and (unfortunately for him,) to discuss what is next on our wedding checklist. (We are just 100 days away from the big day. It’s getting REAL. Eep.)
We clearly have very deep, intelligent conversations over our coffee
Because coffee is always a priority, we both work together to get caffeine into us as soon as possible. This weekend, my fiance manned the Keurig, making us two piping hot cups of Dunkin Donuts Original Blend with one packet of Truvia Natural Sweetener while I heated up some International Delight French Vanilla Coffee Creamer in a small pot on the stove.
(Weekends are for relaxing and feeling fake-fancy, so I like to use an aerator/milk frother for my creamer. It makes me feel like we are in our own little coffee shop.)
This weekend was my bridal shower, so our Sunday morning coffee routine was a bit more festive than usual.
I took home one of the flower arrangements to add some color to our apartment, and we enjoyed our coffee while snacking on cooking-themed sugar cookies made by one of my fiance’s parent’s neighbors; aren’t they beautiful?? Cookies and coffee, a match made in heaven!
Although our weekend mornings aren’t usually filled with cookies and pretty bouquets (although they should be), “coffee time” is always a constant. It gives us a moment to catch up and recharge before beginning our day and week.
My perfect cup of coffee (frothed International Delight French Vanilla Creamer, one Truvia Natural Sweetener packet, and a healthy serving of Dunkin Donuts Original Blend) can all be purchased at ShopRite. Right now, ShopRite is having a pretty snazzy deal so you can continue your own coffee routine: Buy 2 participating coffee products and 1 participating creamer and get a free box of Truvia Natural Sweetener 40ct now through 3/12, while supplies last.
