Mother's Day Gift Guide

What a delight to hand this post over to our Intern and see what’s brewing in her heart. I love her choices for Mother’s Day and am thrilled to have her on board to share them with you all. Enjoy!

Hello everyone! Mother’s day is right around the corner and I thought I would help everyone brain storm some ideas to surprise their mama’s with! It’s important to not just buy something for your mother but do something for her as well. Spend time planning something she loves, book a tee time, go on a walk, bring her coffee, write a card, find a way to show your love this Mother’s day.

xx

Megan

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Sweet Coffee Mugs

Three Piece Satin Pajama Set

Woven sun bags for the summer!

Plan a Walk Around your neighborhood! Coffee + Walking = Happy Mama’s

Oklahoma Visit...YeeeeHaaaw

Underneath my city girl skin is a farmer girl at heart. Been wanting to share this road trip with you as it was the highlight vacation of 2019. Always searching for inspiration to keep creative and motivated.

PAWHUSKA, OKLAHOMA

As a huge fan of The Pioneer Woman on the Foodnetwork Channel I had to take a trip to check out all the coolness.

To get to the Drummond Ranch Lodge, where most of the segments are filmed, you need to head out of downtown Pawhuska and find your way to their driveway. 7 miles down a dirt road. I have never driven that far down an unpaved road. Here is the main area of the lodge.

We are standing right smack dab where Ree does her show. We get to wander around the entire lodge on our own. You can open any drawer or cupboard and check everything out at your own pace. Mother and I had it almost all to ourselves. And there’s a former ranch hand available to answer any questions.

The Mercantile

Frontier Hotel

Ree Drummand’s kitchen at the Lodge

Pawhuska is a very quiet town. Everything pretty much is shut down by 9pm.

It’s an easy flight from Seattle to Oklahoma and an incredibly beautiful drive to Pawhuska.

HAVE FUN YA’LL!

Thai Cooking Class

Who can resist a gathering of friends, creating fabulous food and sparkling drinks? What a wonderful evening learning some popular Thai dishes. Terry and Kathy, chefs extraordinaire, spent the time showing us it is all doable.

Thai 77

 The kitchen was set up with stations and recipes. You could bounce around and help or stick to making a single dish.

 Green Papaya Salad

 Thai Basil Beef 

Tom Kha Gai Soup

 I will never purchase any other coconut milk again after having tried this one. Heaven...

3 crab fish sauce

 Fresh Spring Rolls & Dipping Sauce

Bring an apron and join us for the next cooking class. It was so worth it! 

Sushi Candy

We interupt this regularly scheduled program to bring you photos of sweet sushi! A super fun project for anyone who doesn't mind their kitchen being taken over by all things sticky. From what I hear it consists of rice krispie mix with candy from Easter, birthday parties and even Halloween.

Festive Italian Cooking

 How lucky we were to be part of a group that purchased an Italian cooking class at our school auction. I know that the bidding was fierce-what I didn't know is that it was going to be such an informative and memorable experience.

I have attended two very fun cooking classes here and here but this topped them all.

The table was set with beautiful Italian pieces.

Filled with rice and a votive a brilliant candle is created.

My Italian grandmother used her emply tins for vases as well. She would have loved to see a table set in this way. The dahlias matched perfectly!

My absolute favorite task was creating the Arancini. A meetball sized risotto ball with cheese and marinara inside, dipped in flour, eggs, and bread crumbs then deep fried. Heaven....

The finished platter awaits the deep fat fryer.

Served with a side of marinara and it is over-the-top delicious.

I was enamored with the kitchen tools. This is a vintage milk jar that now has the task of holding flour. Even the bowl in the photo was perfect.

Check out the pots, pans, the cook top and tools. Truly a cooks kitchen.

Here is our hosts extraordinare relaxing after this wonderful extravaganza.

The sweet cat got the last of the crumbs...

In this world of busy lives I think back on the evening and am thankful for a group of amazing individuals that donated their time and talent to create such a beautiful experience. I am thankful for the hysterically funny women that I got to share this night with, our amazing husbands and the auction that made it available to us. I want to do it again next year but feel that someone else needs a chance to experience this wonderful evening.

To the Wisemans, Micales, McDonaghs & Kaufmans. You out did yourselves!

 Grazie mille di coure!!!