An Instant Pot and Slow Cooker Kind of Week This week’s meal plan is full of savory soups, family favorites and fast dinners. I have a couple new Thanksgiving recipes to upload for you guys, but keep your fingers crossed I can pull it off. It has been a busy couple weeks, and I have…
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Weekly Meal Plan // October 20-25
SUNDAY Let’s be real. I just got off a flight from Paris to Atlanta, and then spent three hours in the Atlanta airport before heading home. It’s takeout night! Fajitas it is! If you want to make them at home, get your grill hot and make skirt steak fajitas with peppers and onions. MONDAY Jetlag…
Trader Joes Super Easy Dinners
Quick & Easy Trader Joe’s “Cheater” Meals We’re changing things up this week. Instead of a typical meal plan, I’m sending you a few of my favorite Trader Joe’s “cheater” meals. These dinners come together in minutes and save you when you’re tired or short on time. They’re also great to leave for a spouse…
Friday Love List: Fall Favorites
By the time you read this, I’ll be en route to Burgundy for ten days of cooking and eating. The Cook’s Atelier runs a gorgeous school in the heart of charming Beune, France. My next door neighbor gave me their cookbook a while back and I immediately got online and started obsessing over this little…
Weekly Meal Plan // October 6-11
So many of you sent emails and messages after last week’s Farm Girls Supper Club dinner and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thanks to the effort of so many, coupled with all of your positive energy and thoughts, the night was completely magical. Thank you! It was so powerful…
Weekly Meal Plan // September 29-October 4
A Week of Simple Meals We are moving into Farm Girls Supper Club week, which means I’ll be shopping, prepping and cooking half the menu for 90 attendees. If you’re the praying sort, I wouldn’t mind a shout out. This dinner is a labor of love. The best way I can describe it: It’s like…
Roasted Squash Arugula Salad
Roasted Squash and Arugula Salad + Farm Girls Supper Club Two weeks until the next FGSC! What’s that, you say? A couple times a year, I co-host a seasonal pop-up dinner called Farm Girls Supper Club. Along with local Houston creatives Courtney Paddock of Little Coterie and Kelli Bunch of KB Table, we create an…
Weekly Meal Plan // September 15-20
A Super Easy Weekly Meal Plan It’s one of those weeks! Between Sunday and Friday, I have five cooking classes, a photo shoot, three blog posts to write, multiple recipes to edit and a pop-up dinner for 100 to finalize. So many of you have the same schedule in a different capacity. I just ran…
Best New Fall Cookbooks
The New Fall Cookbooks That Should Be on Your Bookshelf Any of you who’ve been to a Smart in the Kitchen cooking class know I have NO ROOM WHATSOEVER for new fall cookbooks. There are books in front of books on top of books, and I still can’t seem to stop. We’ve compiled a list…
Corn Chowder (Gluten-Free)
Corn Chowder with Roasted Poblanos, Chunky Potatoes and Yellow Squash Quick! It’s still corn season and you should make this chowder immediately. Hold on to summer as long as possible, I say. Eat all the pesto, tomato salad, zucchini and corn you can. For the next couple weeks, at least. And then we’ll turn the…