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Having an efficiently run and organized refrigerator makes meal planning, generating grocery lists, and daily life function much smoother. Ensuring your fridge is stocked with the essentials (listed below) will allow you to whip up almost anything with no notice whatsoever. Buy what works for you and your family.
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It’s definitely a thing. Loving an authors debut novel, and then picking up a copy of their newest release thinking it’ll have the same magic, and getting extremely disappointed by said second book. And it doesn’t have to be an authors second book per se, but rather the subsequent book that follow a really, really successful one.
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Making your own tomato sauce is much easier than you think. All you need is a 28-ounce can of crushed tomatoes, a yellow onion small diced, and a few cloves of garlic run through a garlic press. And a bay leaf, if you want to get cute. You can jazz it up from there, adding in whatever additional spices you want — thyme, oregano, basil. Whatever! Bring your sauce to a boil and allow it to simmer for 15-20 minutes and boom! Homemade tomato sauce with only a handful of ingredients no added sugar, no added preservatives, the perfect amount of salt.
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It all started back in 1990, when the term Beach Read was coined. It was created as a marketing tool for publishers, referring to blockbusters published in the summer. And it stuck. Thirty plus years later, it’s impossible to not see the term Beach Read on every website and magazine.
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Pan sauces are seriously the best thing ever. They’re made with just a handful of ingredients, can be completed in less than 10 minutes, and it gives your meat life. Also, the variety and combinations are limitless. You just need fat, aromatics, herbs, acid, and another liquid — all can be swapped out to whatever you’d like!
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This year, I challenged myself to read 60 books. We’re officially halfway through the year, and I seem to be on track, I’ve finished 31 books! So, I’m recapping the top 10 so far, and of course, plan to tear into the books I couldn’t stand — only seven of those <wink>
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