Heyy girl, hey!
When you’re on the ball, you can go half the month only spending 1/3 of the grocery budget while still eating at home.
And when you’re not…well…
You don’t need me to tell you what happens then.
Moral of the story? Be on the ball. 😎✌🏽
If you don’t have time for cooking, no, no, no.
If you think you don’t have time to make dinner, let me remind you why it’s so easy to find the time to do so.
Read the latest blog post. 👇🏽
Now I’m a realist. So I know even the best plans get chucked & the chicken pot pie becomes chicken & dumplings.
But that’s exactly why you gotta keep cooking! Keep trying!
To develop the muscle memory necessary to turn things around in the kitchen.
In The Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler wrote all about the ends of things (what she calls the “tails”) actually being the beginnings of something else.
The scraps & peels of veggies becoming stock or broth.
Leftover meats & cheeses turning into deliciously golden frittatas.
The “waste-not, want-not” mentality is whimsical - really, it is.
But what’s honestly at stake when the “I just don’t have time”attitude hits is hospitality.
Service to our families.
Service even just to yourself if you’re cooking for 1 these days.
“The way we cook for & eat with others is one of the more tangible, quotidian ways of measuring generosity. The type & amount of food offered, how it’s served & to whom — these things define hospitality at the table and beyond.”
Priya Basil, author of Be My Guest
*emphasis is mine*
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Don’t miss the opportunity to be more generous with your meals by being more thoughtful in the planning & executing.
You don’t gotta love cooking or even the kitchen to go hard.
But I bet if you looked closer you’d find more to enjoy there.
Here are 7 special kitchen moments of a real, everyday, just-normal kitchen (like the one in both our houses).
Look past the salt & pep tonight, girl & see what you see. 🥂