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4 Easy Summer Meals

Spent the weekend with friends at our family lakehouse, a beautiful haven outside of the city -- a space for laughter with friends, counting blessings, and many meals. When not floating & dreaming in the water we cooked fantastic late spring {early summer} meals:
-----------------------------  Lakehouse Meals Dinner 1: Steaks (seasoned only with s+p), baked sweet potatoes with bacon & sour cream, spinach salad with blueberries & shaved parmesean.
Breakfast 1: Scrambled farm fresh eggs with left over steak with salsa & homemade guacamole, strawberries.
Dinner 2: San Antonio chile seasoned fajitas, sauteed carmelized corn off the cob, with green bell peppers and onions, + corn tortillas. Breakfast 2:  Migas (scrambled eggs, fried corn tortillas, & lots of cheese) ------------------------- Lakehouse Loves ...sleep with the sound of lapping lake waves and cicadas. ...a full day of lakeside lounging and swimming, wine, boats, strawberry popsicles, strawberries. ... a beautiful m…
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Catching up}

...almost impossible to catch my breath after returning home, yet grateful for the never-ending fun that life provides. Yesterday an extravaganza of Italian groceries (and an abundance of Italian wine), fresh peach bellinis, time spent with my fairy Godmother...

& Tonight a dinner at my favorite Austin restaurant with family and friends!

So you can catch up with me this week:
{1} Performing burlesque May 9th  {Tickets here}
{2} An interview with Johnnie Goudie {here}
{3} My cover of "Silver Dagger" made it on to the Top Folks Albums, Songs, Artists List! Download the song here (& tell me what you think!) {listen here}
{4} A recent review of my record in Jazz Journal Magazine --- “a flowery vibrato reminiscent of Marilyn Monroe makes numbers like These Foolish Things as melt-in-your-mouth as candyfloss.”
- Sally Evans-Darby, Jazz Journal Magazine" Have a beautiful Wednesday! xo, Jolie 
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