banana bread

Banana bread is one of the most wonderfully easy things to make when you're lounging around the house over the weekend, and you happen to have a couple of browning squishy bananas. I'm also totally obsessed with this cheese board slate I received a few years ago for Christmas - it makes everything look extra photogenic.

homemade granola

Granola is such a great add on to yogurt, or cereal, and the brands provided in supermarkets tend to be pretty high in sugar. Making your own is wonderfully easy, and you can tweak it to exactly how you like your granola.

Ingredients...
- rolled oats
- cinnamon
- pepitas
- salt
- raisins
- almonds
- vanilla extract
- honey
- oil (olive or coconut)

How to...
- Mix all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl
- Spread on a large roasting tray and roast for 15-20 minutes depending on your toasty-ness preference

24 hours in rome

January was a month filled with travels and Rome was the first short stop. 24 hours of perfect weather filled with delicious food - roasted chestnuts, fettucine alfredo, gelato. Short but sweet.

 

 

postcards from hong kong

apple tart

Ingredients...
- apples
- cinnamon
- butter
- brown sugar
- puff pastry

How to...
- Defrost the puff pastry, and lay it out once it's malleable and warm
- Slice up the apples on a mandolin or however you'd like
- Toss sliced applies in cinnamon, brown sugar, and a bit of melted butter
- Lay apples out on the tart in whatever manner you would like. When doing mine, I laid them out horizontally in opposite directions for aesthetic purposes, but you can do a flower shape or whatever else floats your boat.
- Sprinkle with some more cinnamon and maybe a spritz of honey!
- Bake until puff pastry has risen and apples look crisp and golden brown.

thanksgiving in mexico

Thanksgiving of 2015 was spent in Cancun, Mexico. Cancun usually gets tagged as the "SPRING BREAK WOO HOO" of Mexico, but it really is quite beautiful. Tulum and Chichen Itza (a bartender very pun-nily called it "chicken pizza") were both far from our hotel, but well worth the day trip to see ruins of one of the most fascinating ancient civilizations. Other than the tequila, margaritas and unlimited food, one of the highlights was taking a day trip out to Isla Contoy - a small island north of Isla Mujeres. As a protected area and national park, it's a bird sanctuary with probably the most beautiful beach I've ever seen in my life; it was straight out of a desktop background. I would also recommend hitting up Taco Paco - the street side store had coconut shrimp tacos that were bomb.

 

 

 

 

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