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Apple and peanut butter
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The ideal 3/4pm snack when you can’t make it all the way to dinner but need something. Tastes delicious and fills you up so you don’t snack your way to dinner.
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26d
Cooking
Adding plastic animals for cake decor
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*Birthday boy cropped out. I didn’t know exactly what this birthday kid was into, but everyone likes animals. Easy peasy win and so fun. Makes me want to do it for my bday cake too.
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4w
Cooking
Smitten Kitchen Birthday Cake
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The most reliable cake layers out there. You can make them the day before and wrap them up and put them in the fridge or make it the week before and wrap them in the freezer and thaw and frost and go! Delicious, easy, and low maintenance.
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7w
Cooking
Broma Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies
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The absolute best cookie of my life. PLEASE let sit in fridge for 24-48 hours before baking, which might sound annoying but it’s SO worth it. The dough comes together quickly and then when it’s actually time to bake you have the dough ready to rumble!! Life changing to add toffee, or nuts too.
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8w
Cooking
Eggplant Parmesan Recipe
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I could eat this every single night for dinner the entire eggplant season
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8w
Cooking
Iced tea combo
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A local cafe here, Chases Daily has amazing iced tea so I asked what they used. A blend of early gray and peppermint. Really delicious!
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8w
Cooking
Cooking multitasking
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If you’re waiting for oatmeal to cook on the stove in the morning, also steam up some veggies! especially in summer cooking is so sweaty and can be bothersome so having cooked veggies ready to get thrown together for a lunch of your dreams is a gift to your future self. See the lunch pictured! 5 mins to actually prepare, but with veggies ready in the fridge, a salsa verde, feta, and fermented chickpea salad alllll the flavor is easy access. Also I had steamed, peeled, and cut up those beets with red wine vin, oil, s&p, and a thinly sliced onion while cooking dinner the other night.
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8w
Cooking
Summer sheet tray for ripening fruit
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Ever had peaches mold before they ripen??? No more! Also great if you’re picking tomatoes at or around “first blush” to let them finish ripening inside. Once the fruit ripens it will entice you like sirens singing to you, and you’ll smell them before you need to squeeze and bruise them.
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8w
Cooking
Instant pot everything
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Genuinely if my friends don’t use their instant pot multiple times a week I have not done my job!!! Cookings chicken thighs or breasts with a big cup of water and salt, diaspora garlic powder etc etc for 8-10 mins gets you cooked chicken for salad, burritos, to throw into a pasta sauce or soup and now you have good broth too! Dried beans with water, oil, salt, aromatics (Sage, bay leaf, dried peppers etc etc etc). Cooking grains for a salad or base of dinner. Cooking potatoes with a steamer basket for 8-12 minutes based on size. Making yogurt! Genuinely my instant pot is ride or die in the kitchen.
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11w
Cooking
Pre-Grocery Reset
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Nobody likes spending $$$ on groceries and nobody likes throwing away food! Here comes the pre-shop reset. Before you make your grocery list, right when things start feel almost bare and undesirable in the fridge you need to do a reset. The KEY is to do it during the time you plan to cook dinner and do an EASY but delicious dinner because the reset will take time and make lots of dishes so you don’t want dinner to also do that. Take everything out of the fridge that’s looking floppy, sad, and even a bit moldy and put it on the counter. Take stock of what’s salvageable, what’s compost, and what needs a little imagination. Today that was turning sad herbs, and a last couple anchovies and capers into an Italian salsa verde, very pathetic rhubarb into compote, parm that was poorly stored into the food processor to make it crumbled and ready to be used with abandon (rather that the hard and sort of moldy situation it had been), a couple potatoes that were not their best anymore cooked in the instant pot, then a pot of beans! Also prepped celery and carrots and plopped them in water so they perk up and are easy to eat as well as washing and spinning greens so they are salad ready. Tomorrow I will feel like there’s lots of food to eat! And tonight we had an easy zhuzhed up jarred pasta sauce on penne and salad. The fridge and our minds are ready for making a grocery list and very little had to go into the compost.
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13w
Cooking
Homemade Ice Cream
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So worth it, and makes it feel extra fun. I saved all my allotted spending money for quite a few months to splurge on a ridiculously fancy ice cream machine and have zero regrets. (Musso 4080 for those interested...) The Ben and Jerry's recipe book is honestly one of the best and easiest books for ice cream. All of your favorites are in here!
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20w
Cooking
Smitten Kitchen Rhubarb Streusel Muffins
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Perfect as muffins, or doubled in a 9x13 cake pan!
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20w
Cooking
Yukie T
Tuna Mayo onigiri
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20w
Cooking
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Spagett (Miller High Life + a shot of amaro)
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Perfect summer bev. Very chilled and oysters?? Genius potluck addition
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24w
Cooking
The way to cook Asparugus
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I’ve been thinking about asparagus since last asparagus season and this is really the way to cook it. As a side dish and in a farro, mint, pistachio, feta salad? Yes please.
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24w
Cooking
Clare De Boer’s Substack
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A Substack more than worth subscribing to!
24w
Cooking
Braised Chicken Cumin and Cinnamon
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In our weekly rotation and the meal I always bring to new parents
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24w
Cooking
Dorie Greenspan Carrot Cake
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Brown the butter for the frosting and go light on the frosting because it’s quite sweet. A perfect birthday cake!
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