Many who know me well, will tell you that I do love a good salad. Salads are one of my favorite meals and side dishes, especially in the summer. They instantly freshen up any meal and add a green centerpiece to any plate. A variety of salads can also be a wonderful welcome if you’ve […]
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I talk a lot about the importance of finding good lamb when cooking. As a general rule of thumb, the older the lamb, the tougher the meat (AKA mutton). That’s not to say you can’t cook more mature meat, its just that those cuts are better served in a dish where they have been cooking
**photo above: Great Grandparents Farah, Grandmother Jeanette as a young girl, her brother Fred (1931) In our last visit to Minnesota, I was able to reconnect with my family. It FELT SO GOOD!! I’ve mentioned a few times now on the blog and my IG account how much I love a good Lebanese feast. I’m
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We visited Minnesota as a family in May. It was a welcome trip and the first visit to see my family since before the COVID 19 pandemic. We were also really excited to see my family for the first time since the birth of my daughter Farah which also meant traveling on an airplane with
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This is the obligatory summertime sunscreen post. For most of the northern hemisphere, wearing sunscreen is done three months out of the year. But for myself and many others, wearing sunscreen year round to ensure healthy skin is key to anti-aging and preventing skin cancer. Living in Arizona means sun every day through every season.
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“In the summer time when the weather is hot” -Mungo Jerry Every spring I do what is possible to cull the last remaining grapefruit off of our trees to preserve their juices for summer in Phoenix. There’s something unbelievably challenging about quenching your thirst in the Phoenix summer. I’ve found that this is something only
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This year the 4th of July seems a little sweeter. Since the COVID 19 vaccine roll out, a lot more people have received their vaccines and are able to spend time with their loved ones. Thankfully, my family is in that camp. We could not be more happy to spend time with our families this
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Hello! I hope that your summer is going well and that you are starting to relax and unwind. We’ve been traveling a little bit since we became recently vaccinated against COVID 19- more on that coming in future blog posts! There’s something special about summertime. It’s more relaxed in general and that means a more
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Our last night in Paris, we did the most cliché thing EVER. We grabbed a baguette, camembert, sausage, a pear we swiped from our hotel buffet and a bottle of red wine and had a picnic outside for dinner. The sun was setting in the Marco-Polo gardens and we were the happiest clams just munching
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Our last evening in France we did the most cliche thing EVER. Fresh off of several days of touring and travel, we were exhausted, but that wasn’t going to stop us. We were going on a picnic. We swung by the local grocery store and grabbed a baguette, cheese, cured meat, some fruit and a
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