Blastoff!! (hello from Jess)

So when Cory and I were talking about starting this blog, we wanted to do it for a few reasons. First, it would be a fun endeavor to take on together! We're great friends, but we live far away from each other, so this helps to bridge the distance a bit. Second, we both love cooking for our families, but we are constrained by time (we both have careers) and picky eaters. We wanted to share our successes and failures as well as any cool food-related fun we happen to find. We also like to think of ourselves as pretty progressive people, but we really do love the kitchen! There is no return to 1950s values up in this piece, we are some Bad Ass Ladies. That happen to like cooking utensils. So we will both share our meal plans each weekend and then along the way, we'll talk about recipes, products, shops, restaurants, gardens, and anything else that crosses our minds. (Cory and I can both have short attention spans a tendency to multitask, so that may end up being A LOT) So without further ado, here is my meal plan for this week:

Sunday- spring pasta with asparagus & peas, leftover soda bread
Monday- sauteed sausage & grapes with broccoli raab and salad
Tuesday- slow cooker garlic chicken with couscous
Wednesday- linguine with shrimp & artichokes and salad
Thursday- cheesy vegetable chowder with homemade garlic herb bread
Friday- prosciutto wrapped chicken & leftover bread
Saturday- our friends are coming over for dinner & game night! stacked roasted veggie enchiladas, sliced fruit & sangria

We will also be forced to consume the rest of this chocolate Guinness cake I made for St. Patrick's Day. Poor us.

this is before I frosted it with Bailey's cream cheese frosting. yeah... it WAS fantastic, actually.

Griffin should be totally cool with all of it. Drew will likely give me a hard time about anything that contains more than one vegetable. We shall see...