Basil Strawberries w/ Ricotta

This a great summer recipe!  An easy way to get the core out of the strawberries is to stick a straw through the center and then pull the straw back out.  If all goes well, the core should be in the straw, you can see the picture below. 

Black Bean and Corn Salad

sorry, I can't get this to rotate!   Also, if you like spicier recipes, add some jalepenos for some added kick!

Skinny Scones

First up are these delicious skinny scones.  We used chocolate chips and currants, but basically you can add anything you want to the dough.  The recipe can be found here.

An Unofficial Cooking Quest

So without coming outright and saying it, my friend Tracie and I have started on the unofficial cooking quest.  There's no real end date for our quest, no real pattern to what recipes we do, other than our love of cooking and food and good fellowship. 

Tracie is also another newlywed and so we've enjoyed talking about married life and its ups and downs :)  I've also enjoyed learning new tricks of the culinary field that I didn't know before from her.  Hopefully I'm able to teach her some tricks as well! 

I think it is so important to have friends and I am so thankful to have a friend who lives close enough to me that I only have to drive about 5 minutes to make it to their place.

In order to keep the recipes straight, I've decided to do a different post for each recipe. 

Happy cooking!