The Best of Blogs {Part Two}

Here’s last week’s blog round-up!

Our Food:

{Monday} dinner at the Hagers – Chicken Pot Pie from Nicole, delicious.
{Tuesday} sausage and spinach stuffed portobello mushroom caps – this recipe but with half chicken sausage and half sauteed spinach
{Wednesday} Smoked turkey BLTs
{Thursday} calzones – this recipe, but shaped like a calzone
{Friday} chicken and black bean flour tostadas (flour tortillas, smeared with olive oil and baked at 400 for about 10 minutes, topped with refried black beans, shredded chicken, shredded chicken, diced tomatoes, and pepper jack cheese,

Other People’s Food:

This DIY Sports Drink for kids (um, or adults pleeease!) recipe allows you to make your own gatorade or powerade -type drink, for a fraction of the cost!
Also DIY, Design Sponge has a great post on DIY herbal sun teas and simple syrups. Have herbs growing in your garden? Like tea? Look at websites like Yogi Tea, or Mighty Leaf. They list the hers in their teas usually just under the tea’s name. Grab those herbs and start playing with them! Remember that they’ll likely list the herbs that they use most in the tea, first, and the amount of each herb will lessen as you go down the list!
Tomatos are in season, which means they’re ripe and cheap. Smitten Kitchen’s Scalloped Tomatoes recipe looks like a fantastic summer treat.
And finally, my next brunch is just waiting for this Creme Brulee French Bread Casserole from the Foodie Bride.

Things That Aren’t Food:

You should go to this site ASAP if you (or any special man in your life) is good with wood. It gives you supplies lists and plans to make tons of awesome furniture. Those plans and a can of spray paint (i love spray paint) and you could have a great room!
Look at this beautiful pantry-esque cabinet, complete with matching jars and items likely from bulk bins. Ahhh.
I love this bathroom. I am thinking of painting our guestroom/office a blue or teal.