also say hello to this iced americano with homemade vanilla maple whipped cream
dropping in to say this is the sexiest, easiest salad you could possibly make — butter lettuce, leftover roasted chicken (for me, i crisped mine up in the pan after tossing it in mustard, s+p, garlic, liquid smoke, maple syrup, and chili oil), roasted chickpeas (seasoned however you like - this night i chose the citrusy garlic seasoning from tj’s - roasted for around 15 min at 400F) and homemade ceasar dressing (plain yogurt, olive oil, mustard, anchovy paste, lemon juice, parmesan, red wine vinegar, worcestershire, black pepper, garlic)
the ratio i want in my pint of cookie dough ice cream
in my meal prep era — frittata for the week — colby jack, kale, cherry tomatoes, fresh garlic, spring onion, pastrami bacon, aleppo chilies :o)
hi! amazing quick weeknight pasta — chop up 3-4 big garlic cloves, half a white onion. drain and rinse a can of chickpeas. toss all in a sauce pan with some olive oil and saute. add in a heaping spoonful of chili garlic paste, some liquid smoke, a healthy glug of maple syrup, a squeeze of lemon and a big spoonful of tahini. salt and pep to taste, mix well in the pan and turn the heat up and let it get toasty + start to get crispy bits - keep a spatula handy to toss regularly. meanwhile cook your fave pasta. season it up however you want — (i added some crushed aleppo chili, orange zest, green onion, fennel, and coriander.) toss it all into your pasta. then sauté real quick a biiiig handful of spinach or your favorite green to mix in. toss all together and use some good olive oil to drizzle if it’s a bit dry. delicious and comes together in 20 w/ mostly pantry items!!!
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the great deed is done! i have 100% archived my blog except for art, writing, and food posts. hopefully i didn’t accidentally archive a favorite post of yours, but you should be able to dig into whatever you need. i will probably pop in here and there to show you new things i’m working on, but other than that. all my love! you can find me above 💓✨❣️
if you'd like to keep up with me:
+leighsmith.biz - professional website
+gumroad - purchase digital copies of my zines/cookbooks
+lllleighsmith - my instagram
i'll leave things as is for a few days so you can archive things if you need to! <3 all my love to you in the world, it's truly been a pleasure to be a part of your lives
i ❤️ my journal i ❤️ cooking and baking and coming up with recipe ideas i ❤️ trying new things and learning new hobbies i ❤️ my safe and warm home i ❤️ my lover and my community i ❤️ learning and reading and trying and growing i ❤️ my heart and my mind and my body i ❤️ me!!
sweet potato cheesecake pie :-)
dreaming + conscious movement towards those dreams through intentional actions pave the way to building a life more beautiful than you could have possibly imagined — you only have to trust yourself enough to get you there
just imagine a line stretching forever of a woman in her 20s looking at a 30something saying wow i love older women they teach me so much and a woman in 30s looking at a 40something saying wow i love older women they teach me so much and a woman in her 40s looking at a 50something saying wow i love older women they teach me so much ad infinitum
sausage and peppers for dinner <3 an easy comforting meal i had so much growing up when we wanted something delicious but not too hands on and time consuming. making it for my wife now when she’d never had it before me feels special to pass it on. clean plates and then pumpkin chocolate chip muffins in the oven now. our little home glowing warm from the outside as the streets quiet and turn blue
i know i am not destined for greatness in the sense of recognition but i hope to be destined for greatness in a lifetime’s worth of love, of an abundance of laughter and of safety, of spaces and kind shoulders to rest upon and construct homes in. i aspire for it in loving, in being kind, in trying again, in learning, in truly seeing. may that be what i achieve in this life. and may we all. may we all have the time we need to build it
little morning thought
you remind me that love is an active practice and i cannot help it grow if i do not pay attention, but i am paying attention now. you are standing in the kitchen cutting up onions and the light surrounds you and i almost cannot look at you because this happiness is too overwhelming to deserve. i spent my life on hot pavement waiting and now every day is hose water
made a bangin marinade for our chicken skewers — dijon mustard, sambal, lemon juice, a lil olive oil, salt, pep, paprika, garlic, bragg’s acv vinaigrette, maple syrup, + trader joe’s citrus garlic blend 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰