Fresh Lobster Spring Rolls with Easy Peanut Dipping Sauce

Fresh Lobster Spring Rolls with Easy Peanut Dipping Sauce recipe (via thepigandquill.com) #glutenfree #dairyfree

No-Cook Fresh Lobster Spring Rolls with Easy Peanut Dipping Sauce — these light, beautiful spring rolls make the most of fresh produce and tender, succulent lobster. Deceptively easy and impressive as heck, these colorful spring rolls are dairy-free (and easily made gluten-free, too.) Thank you to Fish Fixe for providing the seafood used in developing this recipe! GIVEAWAY! We’re giving one lucky reader a Fish Fixe “Fixe Your Own Box” shipment containing 16 portions of premium, sustainable seafood ($139 value) — and there are two ways to enter. 1) Browse the offerings at FishFixe.com and comment below with what seafood … Read More

Mason Jar Greek-Style Watermelon Salads

Mason Jar Greek-Style Watermelon Salads recipe (via thepigandquill.com) #vegetarian #glutenfree #lunch

Thank you National Watermelon Promotion Board for sponsoring this post. Watermelon is the perfect portable food for enjoying wherever life takes you! Lana’s on break from school for the entire month of August, and somehow we’re busier than ever. We’ve got swim, as usual, and we just added gymnastics (you should see the adorable wardrobe of unitards I’m building for her!) — but we’re also excellent at staying busy with plenty of un-busy activities, too. We popped into the woods for hiking adventures the past two weekends, and long mornings on the beach are never a hard sell. This week, … Read More

herbed asian quinoa salad (vegan + gf)

herbed asian quinoa salad recipe (gluten-free) | via thepigandquill.com

You know that feeling when you drag yourself up from the depths of a particularly realistic dream only to stumble through your house like a stranger? Bathed in the buttery glow of early morning, the rooms are all the same: there’s salt in the pig, dust on the turntable. The down pillows on the sofa are dented just so (hi-YAH!) — and yet you turn down the hallway with fresh eyes, taking it all in the way you would when the light blinks green and the door swings open to a freshly turned hotel suite. It’s refreshing and disorienting and quietly intoxicating all … Read More

Grilled Thai Beef Salad with Sesame-Lime Vinaigrette + a California Olive Ranch Olive Oil Giveaway — #SoLetsPigOut

Remember that time it was 1:30 in the morning and your #SoLetsPigOut Day 3 joint post with Gina was supposed to go live in 6 hours? But then you spent a good 40 minutes googling The Bachelorette spoilers? And eating too many handfuls of Chicago mix popcorn? But really you just picked out all the caramel ones? Hello. Welcome to my now. We should totally be talking about salad. When Gina and I were brainstorming the menu for #SoLetsPigOut, she was stuck in the midst of some Whole 30 BS and I was in the process of shoving circus animal cookies in … Read More

Fizzy Herbed Pineapple Limeade

Fizzy Herbed Pineapple Limeade recipe (via thepigandquill.com) #mocktail #partyfood #lemonade #partydrinks

Herbed Pineapple Limeade: a refreshing, sophisticated and super easy drink, perfect for summer entertaining and parties year-round. Oh haaaay guys, hope you’re all doing dandy. Dunno about you, but it’s #SoLetsPigOut Day 2 over here and I’m feeling stoked. Not only did I LOVE meeting some of the new friends that Gina sent over yesterday, but we’re talking cock/mocktails in today’s post — and more freebies for youbies. Until I managed to muck things up with the word cock back there, they were looking pretty good, wouldn’t you say? In case you missed #SoLetsPigOut Day 1, this week I’ve teamed … Read More