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If there’s one thing I love for breakfast on hot summer days, it’s an icy cold, strawberry smoothie. I’ll often wake up with my throat feeling parched, and something liquid sounds just right for starting out my day. We’ll also drink smoothies for supper. Reuben works construction, so when he’s been out in the heat…
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Lemonade Recipe
When I was a little girl, I didn’t care for lemons. Whenever my mom would sneak a bit of citrus peel into a recipe, my dad would complain that it tasted like garbage pail. So I turned my nose up as well. My parents were friends with a couple that lived in the area. They…
Homemade Frappuccino Recipe
This post was originally published on February 16, 2012 on Cooking for Seven. A reader recently requested this recipe, so I thought I should share it here on Buttered Side Up! Skiing is my favorite winter sport. Feeling the snow swish beneath my feet as I slide down the “mountain” (in Minnesota, the closest things we have to…
How to Make Mocha | His and Hers
I don’t remember the first time I tasted a mocha. It was probably at a Starbucks or Caribou Coffee when I was 18 or so. In general I am nonplussed about most chain coffee drinks, but, if my memory serves me well, I believe that I quite enjoyed it. It wasn’t extremely sweet like most…
Homemade Chocolate Syrup for Chocolate Milk!
First of all, my apologies for being such a horrid blogger this past month. Earlier this summer I felt like I had a really good rhythm going. Then things got busy. Every weekend for the past 5 weekends we’ve had something going on. I’m looking forward to being able to catch my breath. This past…
Blood Orange Lemonade + The Winner
I must admit that I don’t really care for blood oranges. We picked up a bag at the supermarket and were very disappointed at the taste. Maybe we got a bad batch, but I was quite underwhelmed. And so I decided to juice them and turn them into a delicious drink. I also had some…
Homemade Peppermint Hot Chocolate
This Homemade Peppermint Hot Chocolate is the perfect Christmas/winter treat. This was originally posted on Cooking for Seven on December 12, 2012. Enjoy! For some reason, I have been averse to pairing mint with chocolate my whole life. Whenever someone would order a mint mocha or mint chocolate chip ice cream I would inwardly shake…
Homemade Eggnog
I originally posted about this awesome eggnog three years ago on Cooking for Seven. It’s still a favorite at Christmastime, so I felt I should share it here on Buttered Side Up. Our family has always enjoyed a good cup of eggnog at Christmastime. Mom would carefully pour out a small portion and add a…
Cooking Inspiration + Life Lately
I have been obsessed with roasting veggies lately. Here’s a little something that I dreamed up: Roasted Vegetable Chicken Alfredo. I baked up a pan of broccoli, grape tomatoes and garlic (drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt) and added it to a basic Alfredo sauce. It was awesome. By the way,…
Sparkling Strawberry Jasmine Green Tea
This Sparkling Strawberry Jasmine Green Tea is a refreshing spring or summer drink. So. Our house flooded. At six thirty in the morning we heard Grandpa calling from upstairs (we live in the basement apartment of Reuben’s grandparents’ house). At first we thought one of them had fallen down, but…