Farmer's Market Dinner

We've been spending our weekends shopping at the local Farmer's Market and making our dinners out of the fresh food we buy, nothing tastes better! The yellow and red heirloom tomatoes that are in season inspired me to buy a multi-grain baguette from the bread lady, a mozzarella ball from the cheese lady, and a bunch of flavorful basil from my favorite herb stand. L'Orangerie, our most favorite restaurant in Los Angeles and where our love affair with zucchini flowers began, inspired us to buy beautiful zucchini flowers. On our way out, we were given a sample of a Japanese Kyoho grape... the most sweet and juicy grape we've have ever had! Since a small bunch of these cost us $4.00, I thought it made for an appropriate side dish to have with our Farmer's Market dinner. As it came time to assemble the dinner, I prepared my heirloom tomato bruschetta's, grilled some chicken breasts with lots of fresh herbs, and prepared my ricotta cheese stuffing for the zucchini flowers. I carefully stuffed the sweet flowers and baked them in the oven for 25 minutes. I added a bunch of the Kyoho grapes to our spread and Voila! A Farmer's Market dinner was born!

Summer Beach Days at Montage

We've been spending as much time as we could visiting my parents on the weekends and going to the beach! It's already August and summer is almost over so we've been trying to soak up as much sun as possible.

My mom brings delicious healthy food and wine (shh don't tell) and we spend the entire day on Montage beach, relaxing away.

It's so fun to have Ry home to enjoy even the low-key weekends... we have the best time just hanging out with family and enjoying our time-off together... I am so thankful!