My Bacon-Wrapped Life - Recipes that celebrate the sweet, the savory, and everything in between

15
Apr
2015

Foodie Favorites – April 15, 2015

We finally made it to the locally famous Cheese Board Collective in Berk for their looooong-line worthy daily pizza. Two thumbs up!!

Hey, everyone! Happy Tax Day! (Not.) Does anyone actually do their taxes on Tax Day? That sounds like the worst thing in the world to me…one time I accidentally went to the post office on Tax Day and let’s just say I majorly regretted that decision. I may not be celebrating finishing my taxes today, but I’ll take the excuse to eat and drink and celebrate, anyways. Let’s eye-indulge! Here are this week’s Foodie Favorites.

This springtime pizza with chipotle romesco and eggs is the perfect seasonal pizza for this time of year – I love how fresh and colorful (and runny egg-y) it looks!

I am totally craving these spicy shrimp tacos right now. Spicy sautéed shrimp in a corn tortilla with crispy slaw? I’m allllll over it.

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12
Apr
2015

Dark Chocolate Chip Cream Scones

categories: Breakfast, Recipes, Scones

Helloooooo, giant tray of enormous scones that we consumed in less than 24 hours.

What can I say? This is my all-time fave scone recipe, and I’ve been craving it for, I dunno, MONTHS. I’ve had this recipe on my short list to share with you guys basically since the blog started, and I decided it’s finally time to right my scone-withholding wrongs. Because this is a weekend to celebrate!! Yesterday, my parents and I drove up to Santa Barbara and Malibu to finally (!!) look at wedding venues and guys, it was so fun! We found a place we absolutely loved, and spending a day looking for the perfect place to get married was basically the best day ever. My point is: wedding venue touring dream day deserves some celebration dark chocolate chip cream scones. And champagne!! But first, scones.

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05
Apr
2015

Ham, Gruyere, and Spinach Strata

categories: Breakfast, Casseroles, Recipes, Savory

Are you finding yourself in the midst of a too-much-leftover-ham problem this Easter Sunday afternoon?

Well, to be clear. Extra ham is not so much a problem, PERSAY, as an opportunity. An opportunity to make as many delicious hammy things as possible in the name of efficiency and non-wastefulness. These few post-Easter days aren’t QUITE as exciting as the post-Thanskgiving turkey-leftovers days, but they are pretty darn close if you ask me.

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01
Apr
2015

Foodie Favorites – April 1, 2015

categories: Foodie Favorites

Making good use of all the incredible California avocados ’round here! My fave way to eat them: smashed on whole-wheat bread, topped with liberal kosher salt, fresh cracked black pepper, and red chili flakes. YUM.

Happy April! I have to say, I am pretty pumped to see March go. A lot of exciting things happened, but moving, starting a new job, and dealing with a super fun and timely ant invasion in the same month has been…taxing. I’m ready for Spring, new beginnings, and a figurative breath of fresh air. I hope you’ll join me in a cheers to that! Here are this week’s Foodie Favorites…let’s just say I’ve got your Easter back covered, yo.

My #1 carrot cake find this week (besides, ya know, these): carrot graham layer cake. I must try this graham flour!!

Also, drooling over these carrot cake scones. Let’s carrot cake everything, okay?

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