Mussels and fries

I just discovered La Buena Vida, the good life, and I’m smitten with Nicole Franzen’s photography & cooking.  This mussels and fries look delicious and I bet they taste the same. What you’ll need: 2 pounds of mussels fresh fennel bulb 2 cloves of garlic 2 shallots 6 oz of a Belgian style ale or wheat beer sea salt & pepper

Lemon bars

A delicious recipe to try over the weeked…lemon bars CRUST 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup powdered sugar, plus more to sprinkle on the finished bars pinch of salt 8 Tbls unsalted butter, still cool and cut into 8 pieces FILLING 7 large egg yolks 2 large eggs 1 cup + 2 Tbls sugar 2/3 cup meyer lemon juice

Cucumber Honeydew Margarita Popsicles

Before summer ends one must try this recipe, of course if you are of legal age… Ohh, how the alcoholic in me pops out… Makes five 2-and-1/4-oz. popsicles 1 cup honeydew juice (approximately a whole melon weighing 1lb) 1/3 cup cucumber juice (approximately half a cucumber weighing 5oz.) ½ cup tequila 1 tablespoon triple sec 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice 1 tablespoon mint simple

Blackberry Pie

…mouth watering… I found this blackberry pie recipe on one of my favorite tumble blogs, Just be Splendid, and as soon as the weather cools a bit I’m gonna try it. I really hope it will look better than my raspberry tart🙂 Blackberry Pie 3 cups fresh blackberries, blueberries, or a mixture of both 1 prepared round of pie dough 1 egg white