Simple Meals + Honest Book Reviews + Practical Living
Living a gluten-free lifestyle is something I aspire to, and I’ve been taking small steps in that direction by swapping out some of our everyday staples. Thankfully, it’s easier than ever in 2025—King Arthur makes a great measure-for-measure gluten-free flour that’s an easy one-to-one substitute. I found this cookie recipe earlier this summer and have been hooked ever since. Dare I say… they might even be better than my sourdough cookies?
I’m writing this morning from my front porch. After an intense and slightly oppressive heat wave that lasted two full weeks, this morning feels like a gift from G-d himself, as it’s currently 74-degrees, overcast, and there’s a breeze. Summer has been so lovely, I truly don’t want it to come to an end.
If you’re feeding small kids three meals a day (plus snacks), you know the drill: feeding them is only half the battle — cleaning up feels like a whole second shift. Today’s episode might sound silly at first, but sometimes the simplest routines make the biggest difference in daily life.
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If you’ve ever stared into your fridge wondering, “Can this stretch… just a little further?” this one’s for you. Today is all about how to cook once and eat twice, with little fuss, little waste, and minimal weeknight stress. Let’s get into the strategy.
Today: Meal Planning 101 — the meat-and-potatoes (pun very much intended) of having calmer, smoother weeks at home. Don’t let Meal Planning intimidate you, it’s simply figuring out how many nights you need to cook for, and what meals you will be making each night. It’s as simple as that.
Today is a little bit of a love letter to a book that absolutely swept me off my feet: The Wedding People by Alison Espach. I read it slowly… then deliberately… and then all at once in a blur because I could not put it down. You know that rare feeling when a book is so good and so true that you want to savor it and devour it in one sitting? That was this book for me.
I laughed, I cried, I thought about it constantly. I already know it’s going to be one of those books I think about fondly for years — the kind where you periodically wonder how the characters are doing, as if they’re actual people. It’s that magical.