3rd Annual Fry-A-Thon

Finally! Finally Adam and I were able to make it to a Labor Day fry-a-thon! Granted, there have only been two others but I cannot even tell you how disappointed I was to not be able to make it to those. (Still in Oregon for the first and working on a movie during last year's)

The Labor Day Fry-A-Thon is put on by the family of DeAnne, one of  my best friends and man was it great and super unhealthy, but in that really great it's a holiday, who cares! kind of way. 

Basically everyone just brings things that they think might taste good deep fried. (Which is everything, by the way) Adam and I brought apples, which you can see in the top left of the pic and chorizo. The apples were dipped in pancake batter and then sprinkled with powdered sugar and cinnamon. They were like tiny little pies! We'll definitely be doing them again next year, maybe with some kind of spiced batter and a flavored whipped cream? 

Oh and I wish I had gotten a  pic of it to share, but there was a very serious potato gun there. I don't know if I've ever seen Adam as happy as he was after shooting it, very very far, into the pond. He was just glowing!

Avocado Coconut Berry Smoothie

Hey pals! I just wanted to share a tasty smoothie that I made this morning. If you haven't tried avocado in your smoothies, I totally recommend it. It makes for a filling breakfast and a super creamy texture. This smoothie is not too sweet, which is exactly how I like them.



Avocado Coconut Berry Smoothie


2 cups ice
1/2 banana
1/2 avocado
3/4 cup coconut milk
1/2 - 3/4 cup mixed frozen berries


Combine all ingredients in blender and mix until smooth. 


That's it! Easy-peasy, super tasty and such a pretty color!

Macarons!

I love when my friend Morgan comes over. So much. We always end up doing a project and it's almost always something that I've never made before. We had been chatting a bunch about wanting to try making french macarons, so we did! Today!

And man, that is one fickle cookie! I'm just going to pretend that they all turned out perfectly and look just as good as the ones below came out. You can pretend that too, and we will all be happy!

We made two flavors - strawberry and maple. The strawberry ones came out not so hot, but still tasty. The maple ones came out half great and half kinda not so great. We topped some with chopped pecans and some with just a tiny bit of maple pepper and filled them with a simple vanilla buttercream. 

The good news (besides them being delicious!) is that we aren't feeling too discouraged and want to keep trying and making them better! We both have waaaay too many flavor combinations we want to try to stop now!

OK, well, I'm going to go slip into a sugar coma until Adam comes home.

Candy! Candy!

My friends Matt & Matt had a super fun Halloween party this year. I wanted to make some spooky snacks for it and asked my pals Morgan (maker of beautiful yarns) and Casie (maker of super cute dolls) if they wanted to make some with me. We decided on making peanut butter cups and lollipops.

 Both were easier than I would have thought, but it really, really helped that Morgan had made them before. If for no other reason than there were terms that neither Casie or I knew. We ran out of chocolate before we ran out of filling so I topped the rest with marshmallows and stuck them under the broiler in the toaster oven for a little bit. The lollipops were totally lopsided and funny looking but we just figured that hey..it's Halloween and they look creepy!

All in all it was a lot of fun and I hope we do it again soon. We were all even dreaming of having our own adorable candy/ gelato shop. What an adorable dream!