I totally didn't think this weird little kitchen hack was going to work, but enough people told me about it that I finally had to give it a shot.
How To Cut Cherry Tomatoes With Plates
Recipes
Easy Slow-Cooker Turkey Chili
Everyone has their little food-isms. Some people get all freaked out by parsley, or can't stand the texture of coconut.
Mine all fall under the category of "Spicy." I don't do spicy. I don't put pepper (which to me is spicy) in anything - literally, not ever, and this was a bit of a thing when I was writing the recipe section of my book because apparently it is very weird to say "season with salt" as opposed to "season with salt and pepper."
Because...everyone on the planet but me likes pepper?
One-Pot Chicken With Artichoke Hearts
I first discovered a version of this meal about six months after I started blogging, when a reader sent me a Giada recipe for a dish called "Chicken Vesuvio" (as an aside, the photos I took of the dish are terrible...but also kind of cool examples of something I realized very early on that I had to work on). Over time that recipe evolved into the dish you see here, which is one of our all-time family favorites. Even when I think, "ehhh, not in the mood for chicken"…I am always in the mood for this. It's that good.
Oh - and this is an important part: it uses chicken thighs, which are apparently a thing that nobody wants to buy, because they are hella cheap. So cheap that I just said "hella." (They're also hella good.)
Chicken With Artichoke Hearts (serves 3-4)
Easy Pear & Cream Cheese Turnovers
These are going to be the best thing that ever happened to your wintry weekend morning. I stand by that assertion.
Make them make them make them.
Diet Do-Over
You know how every once in a while you’ll see an article in a celeb magazine where some TV or movie star is asked to describe their eating habits in one word?
Well, my word would be “careless.”
It’s not that I don’t give a lot of thought to food – I love cooking, and take a lot of pride in pulling together nice dinners for my family – but when it comes to my own eating habits? Nutrition falls so low on my priority list that it’s practically off the radar entirely. I eat what I feel like eating when I feel like eating it, and if that means chocolate-chip cookies for breakfast or a massive steak for dinner or skipping lunch entirely because I’m just not hungry, that’s generally what I do. Dinners aside, my eating habits over the course of the day rarely follow anything that could be considered a “schedule,” and the amount of thought I give to creating a balanced diet for myself is zero.
