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A Trip to the Golden Valley Farm in Chowchilla, CA

May 02, 2015

Check out our adventure on the Golden Valley Sheep Farm milking sheep, exploring the new Fodder production technology, artisan cheese, and all the farm animals that were such characters!

Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup

February 24, 2015

A comfort food classic.

Those rainy days. Cold days. Cuddle days. Movie nights. Creative spark of madness times.

All you want is a good ol' bowl of warm tomato soup and 'grilled' cheese sandwich...

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Quarantine Project #3: The Shortbread Cookie. (or cookie you have never tackled before) Tea. Shortbread. Lemon. Earl Grey Shortbread with Meyer Lemon and lavender glaze. It's tea time. #sandc #seasonal #lemon #spring #teatime #blogpost #new #kitcheblabs #food #bake #baking #withlove #cookies #meyerlemon #foodography #lavender

Honey. Lemon. Thyme. #sandc #lemon #meyerlemon #spring #seasonal #drinks #yum #food #lemonade

Out of one lab and into another. Quarantine project #1: the chocolate chip cookie. #sandc #T-minus2weekstogetbackintokitchen #baking #chocolatechip #test #cookies #moretocome #sweets #food #comfortcookie #pleasestayhome #makestuff

A sneak peek from our first friendsgiving. #sandc #seasonal #cheeseboard #autumn #foodography #worthit #fall #friends #love #happy #friendsgiving #grateful

Cheeseboard with fresh honey from a dinner party in England -so much fun and good times! Till next time England! Photo: @djkreger #sandc #seasonal #cheese #friends #gather #lovely #food #bettercompany #honey #travel #sandctravel #memories

Obssessed. With these carrots. Sauteed with a good olive oil, coarse sea salt and mission fig balsamic vinegar. Simple and amazing. Yep-just tooted my own horn. Toot. Toot. Been feeling a little blue working through an injury, but being restricted from doing certain things has made me 'fall' back into the kitchen just in time for autumn! Sometimes we just have to find the silver lining in situations-I've been meaning to come back to my roots with my love for cooking and baking and having people over to share a meal. It has been the happiest times for me to literally throw seasonal dinner parties, have kitchen madness, and feed people. So this injury coming around, a trip to a farm, and these little carrots rekindled my kitchen 🔥. #sandc #seasonal #carrots #farmtotable #timing #simple #healthyfood #freshfinds #selfcare #autumn #food #fall #nowwherearemytastetesters #iamoutofpractice #madewithlove #happyplace #eat #shareameal #trust

Much needed outing to the 123Farm for much needed inspiration because I need a farm in my life. Picked up these beauties with the intentions of cooking up a colorful dish, but the veggies from @goodiefarm were so good raw...just ended up eating them as they were paired with some amazing cheese and honey!! A seemingly odd combination, BUT suprisingly went very well together. (btw this variety of string bean have not been grown for 20 years! Did I get that right?! Still mind blown) #noregrets #veggies #cheese #freshfinds #123farm #olivefestivalfinds #sandc #nature #food #farm #love #seasonal #autumn #healthy #healthyfood

Dinner is served. When people give you ingredients and tools to play with, you play. -Rosemary Garlic Steak from a Cast Iron and Mushroom Risotto- #sandc #risotto #dinner #fresh #homemade #withlove #comfortfood #food #farmtotable #play #gettingmygrooveback #glutenfree #sonya6000 #happyone #savory #dontforgetthesalt

Bing Cherry and Chocolate Bottom Pie with a Rosemary Crust...Blessed with Mezcal. A heavenly match with the merriest of blessings. Mezcal and Bing Cherries are on another level of amazing. A couple tweaks and this baby is golden. #sandc #blendingcultures #seasonal #homemade #fromscratch #with love #friends #mezcal #cherries #rosemary #yum #dessert #smokey #justenough #newinvention #photo #foodography #pie #foodforsoul forsoul

Summer means...CHERRIES! We had fun picking these lovely Bing and Rainer Cherries straight off the trees. Fresh-picked Cherries also mean a classic dessert is in the works... #sandc #summer #seasonal #la #cherries #🍒 #cherry #food #fruit #sonya6000 #friends #bake #homemade #foodography #weekend #photo

Dinner from the Jamie Oliver's recipes:) One step at a time. #practice #sandc #dinner #sundayfunday #castiron #jamieoliver #healthy #easyrecipes #farmtotable #food #foodography

Lemon & Rosemary. What will you become together? Got these lil guys from different colleagues at work😊 #lemon #rosemary #seasonal #simple #spring #summer #homegrown #madewithlove #supersourlemons #food #foodography #photo #fruit #herb #tart #savory #sweet

Oookay...I am super happy how these little guys turned out. After the hot chocolate adventures and the wonders of melting marshmallows, I thought (inspired by the kiddos and the kiddo myself) wouldn't it be cool to.have a melting snowman ⛄ in the hot chocolate?? So I came up with the "Melty Marshmallow Snowman" named Marshall😂 with chocolate chip buttons because a little more chocolate won't hurt. He can be dressed up in all your favorite flavors to accompany your hot chocolate needs😊😊😊. It is so simple but I am super happy and proud of it😂(almost as much as the new Peppermint "Hot" Chocolate Macaron with the "toasty" center flavor this year) #sandc #create #innovate #holidays #marshall

Ready to roll out. #sandc #holidays

Holidays. :) #sandc #seasonal #holiday #cookies #marshmallows #homemadr #withlove #baking #baker #woohoo #food #sweets

I love the holidays Cookie drops in full effect. See what's in the box this year:) #seasonal #sandc #madewithlove #homemade #christmas #holiday #cookies #love #happyholidays #food #sweets #winter

Hot Chocolate with Vanilla bean, 70% Guanaja Valrhona Chocolate and Oatly Milk...and Toasted Homemade Vanilla Bean Marshmallows. Late night concoctions. I haven't had hot chocolate in so long because of the milk, but I adapted a recipe this time from @halfbakeharvest (she's super amazing) to a dairy-free (vegan if you take off the marshmallows) version and grated cinnamon to top it off. Any who, this was my first attempt and it is staying all winter. It's a great after dinner drink especially with the velvety smooth Valrhona Chocolate🤤. Happy Holidays!! #sandc #seasonal #winter #hotchocolate #chocolate #holidays #christmasdrinks #dairyfree #homemade #withlove #drink #bemerry #cinnamon #toasted #holidaydrinks #latenights

Fall Sage and Wild Mushroom Macaroni and Cheese. I am really happy with how this one came out. I wanted to make an Autumn version of this classic dish and this was just enough Autumn without taking away from childhood memories. Love. #sandc #classicdish #macandcheese #seasonal #autumn #fall #sage #mushroom #cheddar #simple #food #comfortfood #love #homemade #photo #foodography #photography #dinner

Vanilla yogurt topped with granola, berries and Brazilian dragon fruit. Jump start the morning ☀. #sandc #morning #yogurt #fresh #fruit #dragonfruit #berries #glutenfree #healthy #breakfast #happy #endofsummer #simple

Practicing cobbler season with a Peach, Apricot and Blueberry Bourbon Cobbler. Didn't have all the ingredients I wanted on hand, but I sure did have a bunch of ripening fruits ready to go! Didn't turn out too bad. I'm in a mission to make a better one. BTW the blueberries and peaches are unseasonably and GORGEOUS right now. #sandc #seasonal #summer #cobbler #peach #blueberry #sonya6000 #foodography #castiron #sweets #butnotthatsweet #dessert #simplerecipe #food #love