spinach and sundried tomato linguine with a silky lemon cream sauce

i am writing this as the little one scarfs down his yogurt so i need to be quick.

uh oh, i think i hear spoon hitting empty bowl.

summer spaghetti with a kick

summer means swimsuits (ugh), sandals, cute sleeveless dresses, brightly painted toenails, icy cold cocktails on the patio and meals packed with vegetables in every color of the rainbow.

creamy tomato soup

i was so happy that it was raining yesterday, so happy that it finally felt like soup weather. seriously, i could eat soup twice a week, but the mister isn't as fond of liquid dinner as i am. i figured that since i hadn't made soup in a while, he would be game for this, plus i had never made tomato soup before so it would be something new. 

new is good.

tabbouleh salad

this salad is another simple recipe straight outta my new favorite cookbook, mad hungry. tabbouleh is a light, refreshing and lemony salad that is super filling when piled into pita bread with some salty feta shards and a smear of hummus.

roasted tomato sauce

this is a super simple way to make homemade tomato sauce. no quick-cooking, peeling or seeding of the tomatoes. there isn't even really much chopping. and the result, of very little effort, is intensely flavored homemade sauce that tastes like you were hunched over the cutting board and stove all day, sweating and crying.

what? you don't cry when you make tomato sauce? huh.

um...neither do i.

that would be weird.

jacked up caprese salad

a couple posts ago i spoke of my intense desire to see summer receding in my rear view mirror and to see nothing but fall ahead of me as far as the eye can see.

but then i made this salad.

baked pasta with ricotta, mozzarella + basil

do you know what lycopenes are?

no? get ready, i'm about to drop some knowledge on you...