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Normally the three of us plan everything to a tee, sharing recipes, getting groceries together, and discussing things in great detail.

Sometimes life gets crazy and you still want to connect, but don’t feel like cooking up all the things. This calls for hitting up the deli section of your independent grocery store and creating a spread of alllll the appetizers. If you’ve never tried this, you should.

The three of us hit up Morse Market to grab the goods.  They have an extensive variety of food. The freshly made salads and bulk section are my favorite. Their chocolate covered cranberries are great.

Grabbed chicken, potatoes, various types of salads and delightful desserts. We had yogurt salad, tofu salad, sea food salad and more. The curried tofu salad is my absolute favorite.

Here’s to another lovely ladies cooking night.

I recently attended the Community Dining Paleo Dinner. Community Dining is Paul Sippil’s wonderful concept focusing on strengthening social bonds through communal dining!

This event focused on gathering people to get to know each other, try tasty local food at Uncommon Ground, eat tasty paleo treats and learn about the paleo lifestyle.

– We gathered on a rainy Spring day.

Helen, cofounder of Uncommon Ground kicked off the event by talking about the restaurant’s awesome beginnings. They wanted to create a community center with a focus on health and local food. They had worked in the restaurant industry and wanted to truly provide something high quality. They were determined to source things as locally as possible and create a wonderful and flavorful menu.

-Tomato arugula salad with prosciutto and chips! Tastefully simple 🙂

Casey from Paleo Prime Foods, talked about how he got into paleo eating. He had a terrible diet and was feeling its effects. He moved towards eating good food, taking care of his body and embraced the paleo diet. Paleo Prime makes grain free, almond based and natural treats.

– Risotto on a chilly rainy day is amazing!

Charlotte, registered dietician and health educator at Eating With Ease, explained the paleo lifestyle in depth. The main interpretation is on avoiding grains, processed foods, dairy and eating as close to how humans initially ate. There are various interpretations of the paleo diet, but its main focus is eating clean and unprocessed food. She explained the importance of sleep, treating your body well and chewing food! “Chewing makes you happy!” – because it releases serotonin!

– Perfectly seasoned chicken!

– Chocolate cake mmm

– Me, Paul and Vanessa

– Definitely family style eating!

– Vanessa and me!

Thank you Vanessa, for the lovely and appetizing pictures! Be sure to check out Paul’s other upcoming events!

I love coming up with themes for our monthly ladies cooking night! So far we’ve cooked asian cuisine, roasted an entire chicken, made pizza, learned to BBQ ribs and other amazing things. I love learning new cooking skills and making new foods. For this month’s cooking night, we decided to keep it simple- let’s clean out our pantries/fridges/freezers and combine everything to make a mix of various foods. Our panties/kitchens had the following:

• Spices from Spice House
• Canned chickpeas
• Canned salmon
• Pasta
• Canned chipotle salsa
• Cornmeal
• Canned corn
• Shrimp
• Flour
• Acorn squash
• Barely
• Rhubarb

So we made a very diverse and interesting mix of food! We made Johnnycakes from the cornmeal, corn, flour and almond milk to have as our appetizers. We improvised haha.

We also cooked squash and barley as our side dish. Our main dish was pasta with chickpeas and salmon.

We finished off the meal with rhubarb pie! We had Coney Island hard ginger ale to round out our meal 🙂

I was pretty obsessed with the Johnnycakes haha 🙂

And………of course some lovely rhubarb pie 🙂

Another lovely and relaxing evening with these two 🙂