chicken + bacon pasta salad: the perfect picnic recipe

This past weekend the sun was shining and it was absolutely lovely out (a rarity for March in Portland), so we headed out to the park with some friends and our little ones to have a picnic! I love a good picnic, but my husband is often a little less enthusiastic about it. It basically […]

birthday weekend fun.

I had a fantastic birthday weekend… in case you were wondering. It was spent having dinner at Lovely’s Fifty Fifty with Craig and our friends Jake & Casey (the ones of Olympic swimsuit infamy). My amazing pizza.  Then we went to Mint 820 for drinks and met up with more friends. (side note: You should […]

a magical dinner in the woods.

Just because you have a baby doesn’t mean  you can’t still throw a great dinner party. The only thing needed are good friends and good food. …a magical setting (AKA my backyard) doesn’t exactly hurt either. This past weekend our good friends Marc & Caroline were in town and we decided to create an intimate […]