Spring Round-up

A Memorial Day weekend project: Brian built us a planter! 

 This took a few more hours than he thought it would.

And after all that, we had to shovel out all this compost from the back of our car! 

The next weekend we flew to North Carolina for Joe and Maria's wedding. Here's where they got married: 

Insanely gorgeous, right? Duh. 

My handsome husband, standing up in his super-sexy tux. 

Finally, it's Media Week for Seven, again. We've turned off the tv. (Well, sort of. We watched Mad Men on Sunday night.) But otherwise we've been playing games, reading books, dropping in to see friends, hanging out with my parents and taking long after dinner walks to the library and bakery. This is the sun setting over Shorewood last night. We have to remember to turn off the tv more often. It's such a relief to just be together, instead of being together on the couch. 

Favorite recent recipes:

101cookbook's lemon risotto. I make it with brown rice, which takes forever, but it's worth it. 

Smitten Kitchen's yogurt panna cotta. A decadent breakfast. Make individual servings on Sunday and you've got breakfast all week! I used regular vanilla yogurt and skipped adding sugar. Instead of honey and walnuts, I made a rhubarb-strawberry compote.

I used to make this in my single-girl apartments in Chicago: Orangette's peanut-citrus noodles. A favorite standby. 

This chocolate-banana smoothie was a first breakfast one day last week. (I'm on two breakfasts right now. Morning = hungry time. Dinner = ehhh.) 

We head to Myrtle Beach starting on Friday afternoon, for a week of family time, ocean, beach, books, and NAPPING. I can't wait.