This recipe comes as a specific request from Ellen and I am excited to share it with you today: my mom's Popcorn Cauliflower! The ingredients are insanely simple: cauliflower, sea salt, and olive oil. That's it! This is all about the roasting, or as my mom calls it - caramelizing with salt. Cauliflower is high in Vitamin C, helps fight inflammation, and improves digestion and ...
Oven Roasted Curry Cauliflower
Last week, I tried this amazing new restaurant in my neighborhood, Restaurant Chloe, and had the most phenomenal tahini cauliflower. I snapped a photo of the ingredients on the menu knowing full-well that I was going to make this at home. In an effort to use what I had at home, I altered the ingredients but still found a way to get that flavorful roasted cauliflower that I loved at the ...
Where to Eat + Drink in Breckenridge, Vail, + Aspen, Colorado
This past Christmas, my sisters and I decided that since we all three had some leftover vacation days that we would ditch our parents and head out west for a sister ski trip. Sorry Mom and Dad, but it was so worth it! Left to Right: Leigh, Lauren, and Leslie in Vail, Colorado. We arrived to Breckenridge on Christmas Eve and spent two days in Breckenridge, three days in Vail, and three days in ...
Get to Know: Leigh
Scrambled eggs, cheese grits, bacon, and cinnamon rolls – my breakfast almost every Saturday for over eighteen years. Mom and Dad would wake up and head to the kitchen, and as my sisters and I stirred from our weekend slumber, we would join them in the kitchen to help cook, goof off, and visit. We got older and grew up, but this tradition stayed the same. From sleepovers to hangovers, breakfast at ...
Beet + Goat Cheese Risotto
For decades, the Claffey family's go-to side dish is always sauteed zucchini or squash and onions topped with salt and pepper. Always delicious, always super easy to make. However, the other day, my sister made a Fridge to Fork request: she asked for more side options with vegetables. Sista, your wish is my command. To pair with my filet mignon this week, I chose to add fresh beets to this box ...
Beet Noodles with Crispy Sausage + Granny Smith Apples
There are so many aspects of this dish that I just love so let me jump right in: crisp apples, crunchy Italian sausage, colorful veggie noodles, and a dairy-free cream sauce. Salty, sweet, and easy on the belly! What more could you want? This was also a perfect opportunity to use those fresh picked apples from the orchard in the fall (pictured below) to add some color and nutrition to an ...
All-Natural Electrolyte Sports Drink
As former high school superstar athletes, we take our health very seriously (almost as seriously as Ellen's cheerleading glamour shot)... ...meaning we're conscious of not only what we put in our bodies, but making sure we stay in shape as well. We love nothing more than a good sweat sesh, and if you're like us, sometimes water just doesn't cut it after you've busted your butt in a 6am ...
Two Refreshing Rosemary Mocktails
One of the things I love most about the D.C. restaurant scene is the variety of mocktails available at many of the city's best restaurants. Whether you're pregnant, sober, participating in Whole30, or trying to avoid a hangover on a weeknight, skipping the alcohol doesn't mean you have to skimp on a delicious drink. I really enjoy fresh and fruity cocktails, so I crafted up two recipes that use ...
Double Chocolate Banana Bread
Often times, the best gifts are often the easiest and most thoughtful. This double chocolate banana bread is an inexpensive and quick gift to bring to your host, your neighbors or your office for any occasion. My Double Chocolate Banana Bread is a waste not, want not way to get rid of those yucky brown bananas and using ingredients that most likely are already in your pantry. I often whip ...
Southern Living’s White Chocolate-Dipped Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
In my experience, sometimes baking is best left to the pro's, and who better to turn to than Southern Living? I have so many of their cookbooks and credit them with much of my culinary education over the years. A few years back, my mother gifted me with the 2010 Southern Living Ultimate Christmas Cookbook that is filled with everything you could need to be the perfect holiday host (or guest!). ...
