OH MY GOSH I'm sorry I've been so MIA. I've had 8pm work days all of this week, and they continue through the end of next week because I'm helping with the play at school, and the performance is next Friday. So...basically I get home and go to bed. Just bear with me this week and next week if I seem quite absent - I promise I will be around consistently once these next few weeks are over! Now, ...
Cheesy Potato Soup
Oh, a bowl of warm, comforting, thick, rich, CHEESY baked potato soup, you say? Yes please. I'll have seven bowls. Especially if they are in cute little pumpkin bowls like pictured above. I mean...if it doesn't have pumpkin in the recipe, I gotta throw some fall in their somehow. No pumpkin? Pumpkin bowls. Seems legit. Potato soup has always been one of my favorite meals. It was one of my ...
Skinny Pumpkin Alfredo
Fall is officially in full swing over here at the Chesson household, people. I've got my fall placemats out, my ceramic pumpkin on the kitchen table, my pumpkin scented candles strategically placed in various locations around the house...you name it, IT'S HAPPENING. And I am loving every second of it while basking in this wonderful fall weather. Speaking of fall weather...I'm obsessed. Obsessed. ...
White Bean Soup with Bacon and Chives
Okay, okay, okay I know. Soup. Hot soup. In August. In my defense, my original intention for this recipe was a "Chilled White Bean Soup," but I liked it so much better hot! I am one of those weird people who eats soup all year round even when its 105 degrees outside. I definitely prefer fall and winter food to summer food. Summer food is good too (who am I kidding...I love it all), but I ...
Grilled Romaine Salad with Bacon and Blue Cheese
IF YOU ARE A BLUE CHEESE HATER JUST WAIT! Wait ooone second. Because Seth and I hate blue cheese. Really, really hate it. To the point where if I forget to ask the servers to leave it off my salad at a restaurant it ruins the whole thing for me. But we are obsessed with this salad. Oooooobsessed. So it started with an experiment. There is this burger at a sports bar back in our college town ...
Cowfish Copycat “Taste Explosion” Roll
Happy Saturday! How is your weekend going? Seth and I went out to lunch today at a super yummy taco place and then just walked around downtown Columbus for a while - they were having a sidewalk flea market/farmers market type thing. We realized during the walk that we have a slightly irrational obsession with our dog. Literally 80 percent of our conversation was made up of talking about ...
Brown Sugar Peppered Bacon
Bacon! I love bacon. I think everyone loves bacon. It's delicious and crispy and salty and perfect. But thiiiis bacon takes regular bacon and slaps it in the face. The combination of salty and sweet is one of those classic things that everyone loves - it's the perfect pairing of flavor. It's why the world is obsessed with salted caramel right now - salty and sweet, people! Salty. ...
Baby Kale, Farro Salad with Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette
Do you ever watch the show Top Chef? If you do, the name Richard Blais might sound familiar to you. He came in second place on his season (still bitter about that) and came back to compete again on Top Chef All Stars, which he won. Anyway, he is my favorite person that has ever been on that show - I love him. Well I found out that he has a restaurant in Atlanta, which is only an hour and a half ...
Broccoli and Brussels Sprout Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette
It's always fun when creating a salad to try and find that perfect balance of flavors and textures - crunchy and soft, salty and sweet, etc...That delicious balance is the mark of a great salad, in my opinion. This Broccoli and Brussels Sprout Salad is a perfect example of that! You get the crunch from the broccoli, the salty from the bacon and sunflower seeds, and the chewy/sweet from the ...