Simple Meals + Honest Book Reviews + Practical Living
I love this meal and the fact that it’s everything in one bowl. Veggie Loaded Orzo with Ground Turkey is really great because everything is totally customizable too, so if you want to go with different vegetables, or a different type of sausage (read: pork, beef, or chicken) that’s totally your call! One thing I’d never skip over? The parmesan cheese. Lots and lots of cheese!
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Ahh. Chicken Marsala. What a classic dish. So many of my families love this dish and often ask for it to make a reappearance on their weeknight dinner rotations. Bold, strong flavors, and sweet and yummy Marsala sauce over perfectly pan seared chicken. Mouth is watering as I type this! I like to pair this up with mashed or roasted potatoes, for a nicely balanced meal. …
If you’re only going to read a handful of books this year, make sure you read The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne. Everything about this book is incredible. It is truly a wonderful and perfect story. I literally have nothing but glowing things to say, I simply loved everything about this book. …
This tomato & chickpea salad is an excellent side dish and it’s fairly easy to whip up! I’m talking one bowl recipe and only a handful of ingredients. It’s quite yummy to eat alone as a snack, or to pair it up with a light protein like fish or chicken. …
I really enjoy this salad, and even more than that, I love when recipes call for rotisserie chicken. This is a fancy way to jazz up rotisserie chicken with a homemade dressing and homemade croutons, all on a bed of bibb lettuce with radishes and avocado. The inspiration for this came while flipping through a magazine on lazy Saturday morning. …
Celeste Ng’s first novel, Everything I Never Told You, made it onto my personal ‘top five books I read in 2016’ list. In fact, I still get chills thinking about it. Ng’s writing is so powerful and deeply, harrowingly insightful. When Ng’s second novel, Little Fires Everywhere, was released last year, and immediately climbed the ranks as a NYT Best Seller, I was a tad bit skeptical. The same thing happened with Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Shari Lapena. And you all know how disappointed I was with all three of those authors second novels…
But of course I was going to give Little Fires Everywhere a shot, I mean, how could I not?