Tomato Basil Chicken Quinoa

My cousin Emily sent me this recipe a literal year ago and I just around to making it 🤦‍♀️ It was super quick, super easy, super tasty and most importantly, Dempsey loved it! Well, the first night, he loved the quinoa and the second time we ate it, he loved the chicken. I loved the whole thing! And it’s only slightly driving me crazy that the original recipe was pinned as “Tomato Bail Chicken Quinoa” and I can’t seem to change it 😂 Oh and we always, always, always use this method for chicken and it’s the very best!

Pistachio Loaf

Literally no idea what I’m doing with my life that I didn’t take a single photo of this super unique loaf of bread I made a few weekends ago. Maybe it’s because we ate it so quickly! If you like pistachio and are also down to eat something nice and dense, this bread is for you. I’m still sort of deciding if it was amazing or too rich. Perhaps I need to make another loaf to decide 😋

Lemon Yogurt Pancakes with Blueberry Topping

I know I talked about these super tender and delicious pancakes already, but I thought it was worth repeating. SO GOOD! We always have Greek yogurt in the fridge for Dempsey and then we lucked out having lemons and blueberries on hand too. Tempting to skip the topping, but please do not. It was definitely Dempsey’s favorite part, as proven by his blue mouth afterward 😂 This had some good “spring” flavor, aka fresh fruit and citrus and I really loved them!

Corn Pasta with Sundried Tomatoes

Okay, maybe “corn pasta” doesn’t sound that appealing (not sure the neon color helps either…), but believe me, this tastes so so good! We *saw them make this on an episode of The Kitchen that was about utilizing ingredients that maybe aren’t in season but you can use frozen or preserved versions of even in the winter. At some point I accidentally bought three extra bags of frozen corn, so I’m always up for ways to use it! Dempsey was straight spooning the sauce into his mouth before I tossed it with the pasta 😂 With a little bit of basil on top, this tastes so fresh!

*Saw as in, we have this on on Saturday mornings and catch snippets here and there while we chase our toddler about 😂

Red Chile Chicken Tacos with Creamy Corn

Forever up for a new taco recipe! I made these for Dempsey and I one night when Joey was out at his basketball game and we both liked them a lot! I’ll be honest, I have no idea what a pouch of enchilada sauce is and ever since that one time I used store-bought sauce for enchiladas and made Dempsey cry over the spice level, I’m very wary of using it again, so I just subbed a can of tomato sauce, mixed with some coriander, cumin, chile powder, salt and pepper and I was kind of surprised by how good the flavor was! I still have some leftover pickled onions in the fridge, so perhaps another batch is in order.

I hope you can find some recipe inspiration here!

Last night, Joey asked if I had a good weekend and I thought back on all the stuff we did and thought “YES!” I had a really good weekend. Rockies Opening Day (Dempsey’s second and I cannot believe how much less anxiety I had this year than last 😬), perfect Saturday weather for a celebration of life, dinner with my sis, Sunday breakfast at Onefold and just a million laughs because our crazy boy is always getting into stuff and entertaining us ❤

I thought life would be easier once Dempsey got down to one nap, but now that one nap is just smack dab in the middle of the day. We decided to just put him down an hour early and he fell right to sleep, easy peasy. Woke him up at 1 and flew out the door. We made it to our seats just in time for the game. And wouldn’t you know it, we made it through the entire game!!!! I guess the solution to keeping your toddler still for three hours is to just feed him the whole time 😂 Afterward, we walked back to the car by way of Union Station and had to stop and play in the fountain. Demps loved it!

Saturday started with lemon ricotta waffles. Our waffle maker is officially broken 😢 so it maybe oozed batter every time, but sure tasted good! A bit later, Lori came over to hang with Demps and Joey and I headed out for a celebration of life. It could not have been nicer weather and we were glad to be there.

Afterward, much chilling ensued. The first picture is Joey and Dempsey watching Turning Red — can’t say I was fully paying attention the whole time but what I did see, I liked and man did I laugh over all the fantasy scenes of men as mermaids 😂😂 I’d been a Townie for sure! — and the second picture is the one I sent to lure my sister over to have dinner with us. It worked!

After years of take out, Joey is OVER IT! Which means we actually went out to Fire on the Mountain and I’m glad we did because the wait wasn’t too long and fresh hot food IS pretty good. Demps was so well-behaved the whole time! He’d rather I gave him a whole wing than pick off the meat for him, but I think he’s mostly into blue cheese 😂 I love spending time with my sis so much so it was so so nice to see her!

After dinner and Dempsey bedtime, we looked through our favorites and After Yang won because it was only 96 minutes long. I felt like I had a lot of questions at the end, but now that I’ve had a few days to think about it, I really liked the movie. It’s slow but in a deliberate and thoughtful way. Like it’s not rushing to show you a bunch of stuff, but instead, taking its time to show you the things that are important. Give it a try, if you have 96 minutes to spare!

We hadn’t been to Onefold in so long, so we knew we wanted to go this weekend. We dined in again! Does Dempsey need his own $15 meal? Probably not, but we always just figure the leftovers will be another meal for one of us later in the week. He tried his best to pick up those quesadilla slices but they were HEFTY, so he ended up just opening it up and eating the inside. Smart! We debated a spontaneous trip to the Denver Aquarium but then remembered the 10 loads of laundry we had to do and headed back home.

I left the boys at home for a quick trip to the mall and when I got back, Demps was napping and Joey was working, so I ate lunch, read and made our lunch salads for the week. When little man was back up, we made some banana muffins together, which was mostly me trying to stop him from eating the batter 😂 I had my yoga mat out later and Dempsey kept pushing me off of it so he could run back and forth on it! Oh and at some point, he needed to wear Dad’s shoes. This child! So funny. We had leftovers for dinner and Dempsey got a bath and hey, we actually went to bed early. What did you do this weekend?