Burrata Cheese with Peaches, Honey and Baguette

Burrata Cheese with Peaches, Honey and Baguette / Bev Cooks

How about the most gloriously simple summer appetizer of all time? Also, it’s cheese. If you’ve never had burrata, this is going to so killer for you. A brand new life opportunity. It’s a mozzarella, right? But you slice into it like a twin c-section (sorry, memories) and out oozes the creamiest cream you’ll ever […]

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Roasted Shrimp Cocktail

Roasted Shrimp Cocktail / Bev Cooks

If you take anything from this entire blog post, it’s that you should make this recipe. Ha! Oh. But REALLY really, it’s all about the spread. We do not mess around with happiness here, and this is so stellar you’ll want to punch something. Mayo, horseradish, finely chopped scallions, capers, a dash of hot sauce, […]

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Friday Flotsam

Bread and Butter wines / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreleeleeeleeee! I’m posting this photo just to see how dusty that area is. I should take a cloth to it later on today. Maybe. Probably not. Happy Friday! (<–I never start posts like that) What’s the haps?! (<–neither like that) What’s shakin’, bacon?! (<–neither that) Get this, I went to the doctor yesterday for a […]

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Friday Flotsam

lavender garden flowers / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrack! I mean back! Flotsam’s back. I took last Friday off for the Girl Scouts campout. You didn’t notice? Oh. Never mind. Last week we had lice. LICE. Lice!! And I’m not 100% we’re lice free. I don’t think I ever will be. My friend Mindy went over my head hair.by.hair two nights ago, so […]

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Will and Natalie’s New Bedrooms

Will and Natalie's New Bedrooms / Bev Cooks

I wanted to put an exclamation point on that title but I do in fact enjoy having human friends. We gave the kids much needed bedroom upgrades! At last. It was so time. They’d been sleeping in beds the size of bobby pins. It was one of those ordeals where we (by we I mean […]

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Gruyere and Herb Puff Pastry Twists

Gruyere and Herb Puff Pastry Twists / Bev Cooks

Twists! Made out of PUFF PASTRY. Is this heaven? Me thinks yes. Not only are we snacking on puff pastry twists, they’re stuffed with gruyere cheese and garden herbs and Everything Bagel seasoning. Brunch just got a facelift. And you know what, these don’t even have to be brunch focused. Let’s call them an anytime […]

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Homemade Wild Onion Oil

Homemade Wild Onion Oil / Bev Cooks

Chances are, you probably have wild onion in your yard. Like, onion grass. Wild onion. Green onion. Know what I mean, Vern? And if you don’t, you’re still a good person. You can get some wild onion (or even chives!) at the farmer’s market and rock on with your bad self. A) I haven’t said […]

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Friday Flotsam

table and pillows / bev cooks

Frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrewwwwwwwwderdeeeeeee! Hold on I’m listening to the new Snow on the Beach featuring more Lana Del Rey. One sec, one sec. . . . Okay that is GOOD. That is actually really really good. I loved the first version but the world was totally right – it needed more Lana. I’m not even a massive […]

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