enJOY it

an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Category: what we eat

  • egg salad for the win.

    Obviously Easter is much bigger than just eggs, but I figured if you're hard-boiling this weekend (or already have colorful eggs sitting in your fridge) I could help you out with our favorite egg salad recipe. I've been making this once a week lately. Even Ellerie is a fan. This recipe calls for just six…

  • BACON BLOODY MARY’S.

    I remember the first time I had a Bloody Mary that didn't gross me out. We were in New Orleans, eating breakfast at the counter at Stanley's. I ordered a mimosa and Paul ordered a Bloody. I had one sip of mine and one sip of his and knew I was NEVER going back to…

  • our favorite San Diego spots.

    photos, clockwise from top left: waterfront, SD zoo, Bird Rock Coffee, El Camino, Urban Solace, Snooze, Prep Kitchen, Exotic Gardens, Dark Horse Coffee. (We only take photos of Ellerie drinking from a straw, BTW.) I have avoided writing this post because I felt like we've spent such a short time here and we tend to go…

  • champagne sangria.

    I'm pretty sure NOTHING says "it's 5am on a Monday morning!" like a cocktail recipe. But here we are, it's 5am on a Monday morning and I'm sharing a cocktail recipe. My mom was in town this weekend which pretty much always means non-stop projects. This time we tackled my workspace. We got my office…

  • bringing back our very favorite cookie recipe.

    I have shared this recipe before (at least twice) but it's been five years and I think I read somewhere (probably on Reddit) that you get to start recycling blog content every five years (false). These are really worth it though. They're so good. Almost good enough to make you not hate the hassle that…

  • the best garlic cream pizza sauce.

    I have one more recipe to share as part of my blog collaboration with Got Milk. This is our absolute favorite homemade pizza sauce but one that I have never shared in detail because in Paul's words, "it can be hard to get right." But hopefully with more than a few photos and a bit…

  • our favorite waffle recipe.

    I was recently contacted by Got Milk? to see if I was interested in partnering with them for a blog post. Considering that milk was such a huge staple of my childhood (like a totally normal person, I collected Got Milk? mustache magazine ads in a binder) and because every member of my family drinks…

  • we grilled a pizza!

    One of our summer manifesto goals was to grill a pizza. We have this grill pan (it's great for cooking veggies too) and I used about 3/4 of our normal pizza dough recipe to fit the pan. Cheese on the bottom, toppings (onion, pepperoni and green olives) in the middle and red sauce and fresh…

  • how we do coldbrew coffee at home.

    It wasn't until this spring that I actually learned what cold brew coffee was. Paul asked if I was interested and I was like, "oh, you mean iced coffee?" and then he explained that COLD BREW is NOT iced coffee. Cold brew is normal coffee that is brewed with cold instead of hot water. It…

  • a totally made up cocktail : “the san diego mule”

    No doubt you've heard of the Moscow Mule. It was (is?) nutty popular with bloggers and best served with quinoa, kale and a sprinkled donut. (Not really.) Last summer it was blowing up my Instagram feed and I figured I might as well hop on board so we looked up a recipe (here's a good…