Rigatoni with Slow-Roasted Tomatoes

Rigatoni with Slow-Roasted Tomatoes / Bev Cooks

OoooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooo honey child. Come here. This is the winteriest of winter meals. Rustic. Savory. Rich. Tangy. It’s slow-day perfection and we’re (you’re) going to rearrange a couple of things this weekend to make it happen. Roger that? Roger that. Let us peepeth. Slow-roasted tomatoes are up there for me and blissful life happenings. That and […]

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Broiled Salmon and Broccoli Bowls

Broiled Salmon and Broccoli Bowls / Bev Cooks

Bowls! You know we love a good bowl. And this one has become our Monday night staple and I need you to obsess over it like I do. I do have one thing to add though. The salmon in this photo is not what I normally buy. My store was out of the pretty fillets, […]

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Friday Flotsam

cozy morning / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeleeeedeeeeyeeeeeee. Ya know the scene in When Harry Met Sally when Sally and Joe are at the airport and she’s about to board, and Harry walks past her, does a double take, then keeps walking? With me so far? And then Sally goes, “Thank God he couldn’t place me, I drove from college to New […]

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Creamy Sausage Soup with Kale and Farfalle

Creamy Sausage Soup with Kale and Farfalle / Bev Cooks

Let’s have soup! Also the kids are home for snow day #2 so we’re coping. This is coping. Slurp coping. I turned the Italian sausage into meatballs because who doesn’t love a meatball? It BEGS to be a meatball. And it’s creamy because January. But also has kale in it because life. Let us peepeth? […]

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Friday Flotsam

feet and tile / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrwelcome back! To Flotsam that is. We’re back. Back at it. Swinging bats. Just kidding I don’t know what that means. But do you want to know what I really really want? I’ll tell ya what I want, what I really really want. I need new pajamas. New PJs for 2024! I’ve said this for […]

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2023 in Books!

2023 in Books! / Bev Cooks

Why yes I’m using the same photo from last year AND the year before but we’re unbothered by it. (my new word for 2024, but we’ll get back to that tomorrow.) Books! Let’s discuss. I read a total of 30 books in 2023. Which isn’t record-setting or anything. Matter of fact it’s significantly less than […]

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Let It Snow – Our Take!

Let it Snow / Bev Cooks

It’s a throwback day! (Flotsam should return next week. We’ll see.) Yeaaaars and years ago Aaron and I decided that we needed to record a Christmas song in order to become rich and famous, like most artists do. And while that definitely did not happen (the rich and famous part), we still got a song […]

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Chocolate Coconut Pie

Chocolate Coconut Pie / Bev Cooks

I made you pie! I made us pie! I’m a pie maker! (not really.) Listen though, this is big. Big for me. I made a chocolate pie and it’s actually to die for. Look at that CENTER. Now I will say, I have the patience of a toddler hummingbird on crack, so I didn’t let […]

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