#52triespics | Week 20 #justmakeitfromscratch

Hop on over to my week 20 entry on 52tries.com here!

It's All Good - Gwyn Paltrow's Cauliflower and chickpea salad. It's my absolute favorite, made at least a million times found here.

Make it Ahead - Ina Garten - Summer filet of Beef with Bearnaise Mayonnaise. Find a similar recipe by Ina here.

Xxxooo

#52tries | Week 19 - Birthday Baby + FOOD REVOLUTION DAY IS TOMORROW!!!!

Read my 52tries diary post for this week here.

Food Revolution Day - Hit and Run Tray Baked Chicken (this recipe it inspired my gumption!)

Jamie Oliver's Slow Roasted Pork

To the mullies with 38!!!

FOOD REVOLUTION DAY IS TOMORROW!!!  

It'll over so fast... Somebody hit pause:)

My kids can't stop singing Jamie Oliver's new "It's a Revolution" song... We love it so much. Listen to it here. 

Let's do something really good together!

xoxoL

52tries | Week 18 + Food Revolution Day in Chicagoland

Lots of pics to go with my week 18 52tries post - read all about my family table meal planning + cooking here.

You can find all of the delicious Food Revolution Day Recipes (including the ones I cooked up for this week) here.

Find Elyse Wagner's New Smoothie Secrets Revealed Cookbook here.

Find the 52 New Foods Challenge Cookbook here.


Can you believe we have just over one.week.to.go before Food Revolution Day 2015 hits!?

Follow our Lake County Food Revolution Facebook page here and keep up with us!

Find Chicago's Green City Market information here and start salivating over Jared's awesome wood fired pizza. Our "squash-it" pizzas are gonna be amazeballs!!!

Find Liberty Prairie Crossing Plant Sale and Farm Open House information here.

Learn more about Chicago's successful Pilot Light Chefs Food Education Organization here.

I am ridiculously excited to hit PLAY - I need a sweet new song to jam out to in my kitchen:)


xoxoL

#52tries | Spring Break in Truckee Tahoe + Terri's Birthday Lemon Biscotti

Begin again.

Above are the corresponding pictures for my week's "try" at creating a healthy and happy family table + meal planning. You can read my 52tries diary entry here.

Mealplan + cookbook/website links (it's a short list this week!):

Find The Pollan Family Table's Baked Ziti here.

Find my dear friend Terri's lemon biscotti "al limone e mandorla" recipe here. At her suggestion, I simply dipped it in melted dark chocolate and crushed pistachios = Birthday heaven for Vicki.

US Biscotti conversions:
4 c gluten free or regular flour
1 TB baking powder
1/4 c marsala wine
1 c ground almonds (almond flour or meal)
1 c roughly chopped pistachios (plus more for dipping!)
1/2-3/4 c honey
Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

See ya'll back here every Thursday with a week worth of pictures and a link back to my #52tries diary post.

To the mullies we go.

xoxo


ps

A special shoutout to Chef Marty of Marty's Cafe in Truckee - We can't wait to eat breakfast with you again someday:)