Healthy Summer Snack Ideas
So here’s something I had to come to terms with as a working mom with two kids home…
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Quick Summer Soup Recipes
So I know “soup” sounds like exactly the wrong word for July, and I get that reaction every…
Quick Grilled Fish Tacos
25 min
So fish tacos are the dinner that completely changed how Dan and I think about quick weeknight seafood,…
Summer Sheet Pan Dinners
So the sheet pan dinner entered our regular rotation the summer I hit what I now call “the…
Quick Summer Quesadillas
So quesadillas are the dinner I make more than any other single recipe across the whole summer, and…
10 Best Summer Meals for Families
So here’s a question I get asked constantly, in various forms, from other parents who know I cook…
Grilled Steak Kabobs Recipe
30 min
So the first time I made steak kabobs that were actually good—not just edible, not just functional, but…
Easy Summer Pasta Recipes
So pasta is the one food in our house that transcends every season, every mood, and every level…
Quick Healthy Summer Bowls
So I want to start this one by being completely honest about what “healthy” means in my kitchen,…
Quick Summer Dessert Recipes
So the summer dessert situation in our house operates on a very specific philosophy that took me a…
Easy No Cook Summer Dinners
So there’s a specific threshold in Chicago summers—usually hits sometime in late July—where the temperature in the kitchen…
Summer BBQ Meal Prep Ideas
So here’s the situation that this article was born out of. It was the Friday before a long…