Sweet roasted red peppers make a luscious pasta sauce in this linguine with sweet pepper sauce, which is accented by more roasted pepper slices, wilted baby greens, and decadent burrata cheese.
linguine with burrata, greens and sweet pepper sauce

On the heels of the.boy forcing me to watch the new Robin Thicke video, all the while confiding in me his deepest hopes that certain female body parts might make a cameo appearance or, better yet, play a leading role.

A big old bowl of pasta that has twice as many veggies as it does noodles?

I feel cleansed at the mere memory of eating it.

My Youtube browsing history, on the other hand, will never be the same.

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Hot summer nights call for light dinners, like these caramelized onion, spinach, roasted red pepper and ricotta salata crostini!
caramelized onion, spinach, roasted red pepper and ricotta salata crostini

Often times at work, when I’m in the middle of an experimental lull or just need a break from staring at fat cells, I’ll daydream about what kind of cookbook I’d write if someone walked into the lab at that second, put a gun to my head, and screamed “WRITE A COOKBOOK. NOW.”

Well, twist my arm, why don’t you.

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If you like white chocolate and buttered popcorn, then you will love these white chocolate buttered popcorn cookies, which are definitely greater than the sum of their parts!
white chocolate buttered popcorn cookies

I’m kind of a put-weirdo-things-in-cookies kind of gal and the.boy is really a chocolate-chips-only-or-bust kind of guy.

As you can see from the title of this post, I wear the pants and make the cookies in this relationship. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

So when the.boy asked me to bake cookies for his last day of work before switching over to a new job this week, I took it upon myself to make him squirm with cookie anxiety as much as possible during the process. It’s my wife-to-be duty, after all.

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wedding

1. I sari-ed this weekend in my best friend’s wedding. It was a once in a lifetime kind of thing. In so many ways. And then I went straight from there to a vesicle trafficking conference. Also a once in a lifetime kind of thing. But for very different reasons.

2. Exhausted is now my middle name.

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