Deliciousness: Breakfast of champions

This is our new family breakfast routine at our house. Greek yogurt with sliced up grapefruit, peaches, and/or plums (you really can't beat the fresh, locally-grown stone fruit in California!). Drizzle a little agave nectar and you've got deliciousness and nutritiousness. Yum.

Deliciousness: Watermelon and sea salt

Ah, summer. That's all. Bye!

Deliciousness: Hot summer day s'mores!

I am kind of obsessed with these. Graham cracker, marshmallow fluff, chocolate ice cream. Unbelievably delicious. Jude looked at the ingredients on the fluff jar and decided that eating one of these was probably worse for us than smoking a cigarette. I wouldn't know, as I've never smoked a cigarette, but I do know that these are likely similarly addicting...Y.U.M.

Deliciousness: Vegetables...drink up!

Our vegetable intake has skyrocketed since we got a juicer. Jude is on a tear these days, buying bags and bags of fruits and veggies at the farmers' markets and shoving them all through that juicer in various combos...some of them significantly more delicious than others! I am pretty sure that between these three juices he made for us for breakfast, there are beets, beet greens, cucumbers, oranges, cantaloupe, carrots, celery...and probably lots of other random things I'm forgetting.

Here's the juicer we got, which we're in love with. It's super easy to use and clean and works crazy well. Also, the pulp left behind makes great compost!

Deliciousness: Eat, drink, and be mommy!

My husband is a chef. I, on the other hand, have very few skills in the kitchen. When Jude is working and I need to feed myself and Ruby, I struggle to find things that don't come in boxes that are healthful and fun for us to eat...Then, along came The Petit Appetit. Amazingly simple and joyful foods and meals in here that even I can make for Ruby! GREAT resource for domestically-disabled mommyfolk like me.

Here is a post (with recipes!) I wrote about this book over a year ago on an old blog I quit writing.

The second book is about party foods for entertaining kids, but I have found it useful for everyday food as well.

Deliciousness: Red beet pancakes

We are  always looking for ways to get our little munchkin to eat colorful veggies. She was in LOVE with these pancakes daddy made. Fresh beets from the farmers' market, pureed, and put into homemade (whole wheat) pancake batter. Yum. Froze some of these in individual baggies for future snacks.

Deliciousness: Nothing says summer like strawberry shortcake...

And nobody does strawberry shortcake like Bocalli's in Ojai, California. They grow their own strawberries, so the dessert is seasonal.