Simple Meals + Honest Book Reviews + Practical Living
I love finding new recipes and absolutely love when my clients say they want to introduce their kids to new things, like lentils. I was asked to come up with a any side dish of my choosing featuring lentils. This is what I found, and what my #cleanplateclub loved!
It’s pretty easy to make too, which is always an added plus. It’s a fantastic snack, appetizer, or a meal in of itself.
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I absolutely love a good bolognese sauce. When I was pregnant with our first baby, it was in the weekly rotation. I’m finally getting around to typing up the recipe I’ve been using. It’s a version of America’s Test Kitchen, so pretty much all credit goes to them (as per usual!). Use any type of pasta you’d like, I tend to mix it up!…
I welcome the day I’m no longer nervous about messing up the spices in an Indian dish. While I’m not quite there yet, I did find this recipe fantastic after a few trial runs, tweaking as I went along. By the time I cooked this for two of my three clients last week, I was confident it was a tried and true recipe. My husband considers this dish in the Dinners by Dara, Top 10….
I honestly don’t know if there’s anything better than reading several fantastic books back to back. Books that hook you in with equal intensity, in very different ways. I lucked out with my Kindle picks this month, and finished four wonderful books that were all very, very bingeable. I’m thrilled to share them with you over the holidays.
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As you all know, I’m a huge fan of audiobooks and would never be able to complete my annual reading challenges without them… and I take my audiobook picks v seriously.
We’re very lucky. Our 11 month old baby girl will eat anything we put in front of her. And I mean anything. She’s happy with beef burgundy, calamari, lamb curry, chickpea masala, shrimp jambalya, and even pizza. Getting her to eat the daily recommended serving of fruits, vegetables, grains, and protein is not a problem at all, but it also means my meal planning and meal prep game need to step up tremendously. Especially since my husband and I are trying to cut down on dining out during the weekdays, and this includes lunches! So with that, here’s what my weekly grocery list currently looks like.