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Chai Almond Breakfast Bowl

Chai Almond Breakfast Bowl

This chai almond breakfast bowl combines almond meal and flax seeds with chai spices and served with plain Greek yogurt and topped nuts and fruit.

Sunday Somethings

Sunday Somethings

Hello, Sunday. After 9 years, the skyline just doesn’t get old here in Chitown. How are you all?  Doing your part to properly weekend? Mine has been everything I wanted to be.  After all the hulabaloo the past few weeks pre- and post- celebrating the…

Roasted Beet and Paneer Salad

Roasted Beet and Paneer Salad

Roasted Beet and Paneer Salad

We’ve made it through the week. Huzzah! Let’s pump up the weekend with this roasted beet and paneer salad.

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Elote Dip

Elote Dip

Fresh sweet corn, cheese, and lime come together with yogurt for this creamy and easy elote dip, a take on everyone’s favorite Mexican street corn.

Sunday Somethings

Sunday Somethings

When you can bake a better cupcake that you can buy, you must resign yourself to the task. Because on, one’s birthday, no one should eat a subpar cupcake. Hello, Sunday. Hello, 35. That’s right. Thirty five years ago on what I hear was a…

Treasure Island Ice Cream Cake

Treasure Island Ice Cream Cake

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Different flavored ice cream is layered together with crushed cookies, nuts and candy bars, and frozen solid into this Monster Treasure Island Ice Cream Cake. 

How ‘bout them Olympics, yah?  Good stuff! Needless to say, my attention has been grabbed.

But on to today’s delight.

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The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich

The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich

The ultimate breakfast sandwich with smashed avocado, maple-smoked bacon, eggs, cheese all on freshly toasted sourdough.

Sunday Somethings

Sunday Somethings

Hello, Sunday. As I sit over breakfast this morning, I can’t even remember what happened this week; perhaps a sign of aging, or preoccupation, but I do know the Olympics are under way and that’s all I need to know.  I love the Olympics, summer…

Thai-Style Pulled Pork

Thai-Style Pulled Pork

Thai-Style Pulled Pork

It’s birthday month, and if you’ve been with me through this journey you know that every August here on THB take you all through my favorites; from tacos to barbecue to allthecakeandicecream, it really is the most delicious few weeks of the year (for me). Keeping the trend alive with this Thai-style pulled pork.

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Sfincione, a Sicilian-style pizza

Sfincione, a Sicilian-style pizza

Last week as my girlfriends and I gathered to see one woman make her mark in the history books, we took the opportunity to mark and salute another group of trailblazing women and did so over some, Sfincione, a Sicilian-style pizza with provolone, ricotta, sausage and…