Russell, Author at Gentleman at Home

Eat This Tomato Peach Burrata Salad Outside

Summer brings tomatoes off the vine and peaches out of the tree. They match perfectly with fresh burrata cheese, which is a ball of diary paradise. Fresh mozzarella filled with curd and cream. It’ll blow your mind.

Wireless, Synchronized Whole Home Audio with Google Chromecast Audio

We’re gigantic fans of @Chromecast Audio. It supports whole home audio, integrates with @madebygoogle Home devices and plays well with @Spotify. And, it costs only $35 per device.

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Instant Pot Greek Yogurt: Creamy. Tangy. Packed with protein. We’re hooked.

We’ve got a new routine–eating a healthy breakfast of Greek yogurt made by us in our Instant Pot. It’s creamy, tangy, and packed with protein. We’re hooked.

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We’re taking self-care more seriously

We re-examined our hygiene regime. We concluded that we’d gravitated towards cheapness and were sacrificing quality. So, we decided to take self-care more seriously.

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Sony WH1000XM2 Noise Cancelling Headphones

Count us as contented customers. We enjoy these Sony WH1000XM2 Noise Cancelling Headphones and would buy them again.

Start the day like Nordic god with breakfast charcuterie

Color us converts to breakfast charcuterie. In addition to being delicious, it was super-duper easy—perfect for lazy Sunday mornings.

Try this Soupy Rice with Chicken and Vegetables from Food & Wine

This Soupy Rice with Chicken and Vegetables from Food & Wine was warm and heartening. The tomato gave it zest. The rice provided substance. The peas added a little sweetness. The olives delivered a surprising, briny pop. And despite being comfort food, the meal was relatively healthy.

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Binge-watching House of Cards with our New Luminoodle USB Bias Lighting

We purchased this Luminoodle USB Bias Lighting. The 118-inch strand comes with an adhesive strip, which fits around this 42-inch TV. The USB port of the TV provides all the necessary power.

This summer Cobb salad is a grand slam

This summer Cobb salad with garden-fresh tomato is a grand slam, especially its dressing, a non-creamy, clean-eating riff on honey mustard.

Instant Pot Kung Pao Chicken

We used a trick to give the chicken a crispy, fried-like texture. This sauce tastes bold and spicy. The Instant Pot does yeoman’s work.

For our birthday, we crafted our go-to cocktail, a Horsefeather.

A Horsefeather cocktail is refreshing but not sweet, boozy but not overpowering. And, the ginger beer provides a entertaining bit of spice.

A Long Weekend in New York

We enjoyed one helluva weekend in NYC, including eating, drinking, socializing, a little culture and even a trip to the theater. Here’s a comprehensive, linear itinerary of our exploits.

Buy This! MAXOAK 6-Port External Battery Power Bank

Of all the tech gadgets suggested here, this one might win the award for least sexy, but this MAXOAK 6-Port External Battery Power Bank is our favorite gadget that we’ve acquired this year.

Airfryer Seasoned French Fries are a worthy impersonation

An airfryer makes delicious French fries. And, if it could do nothing else, that’d be enough because healthier French fries change the game.

Buy This! Anker 20W Premium Stereo Bluetooth Portable Speaker

If you are getting married soon, or just want a solid Bluetooth speaker, we gentlemanly recommend this Anker 20W Premium Stereo Bluetooth Portable Speaker. Thanks, Amanda and Kyle!

Not-Your-Father’s Taco Salad

Hearing taco salad for dinner, we expected a shell bowl filled with grease and sour cream. But, this taco salad is not that taco salad.

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This Moroccan Rotisserie Chicken tickled our palates with delight

Today, we created a Moroccan paste for this rotisserie chicken, which we spit-roasted on our backyard grill.

STOCKHOLM Ottoman from IKEA: Our feet finally have somewhere to go

We were lacking proper feet-kicking-up equipment, so we got this STOCKHOLM Ottoman from IKEA. t doubles as a seat. It also spins around.

Chicken Kebabs with a Lemon Coconut Aminos Glaze, an Ultimate Summer Food

These chicken kebabs with lemon coconut aminos glaze won the night. We served them over wholegrain rice—an ultimate summer meal.

Dark Meat Chicken Noodle Soup in the Instant Pot

Seeking to accentuate the “comfort” for our sick wife, we used skin-on chicken thighs for this chicken noddle soup made in the Instant Pot.

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Chopped Cruciferous Salad with Lemon Olive Oil Dressing and Grilled Chicken Breast

Filling, clean, flavorful, crisp, this chopped cruciferous salad with lemon olive oil dressing tastes like summer in a shallow bowl.

Breaded Pork Chops Sous Vide with Tangy Mushroom Sauce

We cooked pork chops sous vide then breaded and finished them in the oven to get that crispy, crunchy crust using our faux fried technique.

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Early Color: Our Favorite Spring Blooming Perennials

From the depths of the soil have emerged the most dependable of dependables: the perennial plants. Here’s a list of our favorite spring blooming perennials.

Instant Pot Chicken Breast and Broccoli Pasta: Healthy, probably, maybe, could be

Here’s a recipe for chicken breast and broccoli sauce in the Instant Pot. The magical ingredient is the renderings from the chicken skin.

Drink a Dewdropper cocktail because it’s too nice outside to do anything else

We concocted a drink recipe containing whiskey, ginger beer, lime juice, agave nectar, bitters and a splash of grenadine. Drink it outside.

Get Festive: Shredded Chicken Tacos Using an Instant Pot

We wanted shredded chicken tacos. Our Instant Pot, per usual, handled the heavy lifting. Do not sleep on our homemade pico de gallo, though.

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We favor Kansas City Cowtown Bar-B-Q Sauce on our smoked meats

Our favorite variety of barbecue sauce is Kansas City Cowtown Bar-B-Q Sauce, which is manufactured locally. It won the 2001 American Royal Barbecue Contest. That means that other people who also know barbecue, like really know barbecue, deemed it to be as fantastic as we believe it to be.

In Memoriam: Brandon Lee Russell

Photo by Mary Beth Russell / epagaFOTO This blog is but a lark. We try to be lighthearted and fun. For us, this serves as—and we hope that it provides—a pleasant distraction from the strains and tribulations of life. To that end, we rarely go personal and never post anything melancholy. But, on Saturday, April […]

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