October 25, 2017

Cracklin’ Chicken

Nom Nom Paleo’s Cracklin Chicken is Cooper’s currently favorite dinner. Heck, it’s one of my favorites too! I am so happy that it’s got a place in our meal rotation because it’s a meal that takes a minimal amount of effort with maximum results.

This recipe is included in one of my new favorite cookbooks-

Ready or Not! 150+ Make-Ahead, Make-Over and Make-Now Recipes

Seriously. If you have to make dinner for your family GET THIS BOOK. It will make you want to get into the kitchen. Promise.

Recipes I want to make include: Buffalo Cauliflower Things, Salt & Pepper Fried Pork Chops, Pressure Cooker Bo Ssäm, Chicken Curry in a Hurry, Thai Roast Chicken, Pressure Cooker Salsa Chicken, Sheet Pan Sausage Supper, and Mango Turmeric Tonic!

The chicken is juicy and crispy!! Around here I serve it with rice & broccoli. It’s fantastic with a little teriyaki sauce on top. Thank you for such a brilliant recipe, Michelle!!

LISTS

October 23, 2017

Intentions for the Week

Hello Hello. It’s Monday! A new week to get started on. Did you have a good weekend? Mine was pretty good. My friend had came to town from Sacramento for a sleepover and we talked non-stop and went on Marin adventures. Good for the soul! Except maybe I stayed up too late and had doughnuts and bourbon. Also my throat hurts from talking so much. Sign of a good time! This week I’ve got quite a few things on the agenda. My house is a mess right now and I have to jam on it and clean it up this week between doing all the other things I gotta do. We still have to figure out our Halloween plans/costumes etc. Are you gonna be anything good? Thinking of wearing my panda costume from a few years ago and calling it a DAY.

This Week’s Intentions:

make turkey white bean chili
make kombucha
volunteer at thrift shop/gather items to donate
clean house
LAUNDRY
go to yoga
figure out appointment at bank
make a matcha facemask (Thanks for the recipe, Maggie!)
do some meal prep
make sure snack drawer gets fixed
record podcast with Whitney
research health insurance
try to eat healthier/more salads/eat more at home
make my family some cookies
organize pantry
tour Nugget grocery store
catch up on social media
find a good long sleeve shirt to add to my winter capsule.
post favorite fall recipes
plan next lady craft day
drink more water (this helps)
BE ACTIVE

Last Week’s Intentions:

~~do a face mask (can you recommend one? I’m on the hunt!)~~
~~make it so I have two eyebrows instead of one~~
deep clean bathrooms (did 1)
~~meet with Madeleine~~
try to eat more salads (tried)
try to drink more water (this is helping)
~~LAUNDRY~~
~~photo for Tillamook~~
~~doctor appt for Coop~~
research health insurance + try not to feel hopeless
make a recipe from Feed the Resistance
~~make a recipe from Ready or Not!~~
~~finish putting away summer clothes~~
~~school field trip~~
~~write letters~~
~~catch up on social media~~
GO TO YOGA (I haven’t and I’m really suffering for it!)
~~take care of myself/get better sleep~~
go through the archives and find good Fall recipes (this week!)
~~figure out what to work on during ladies craft night~~
~~figure out what’s due at the library~~

Mantra for the Week:

How about you? What do you have going on this week? Write out your Intentions for the Week! It helps.

my everyday life, Photography

October 22, 2017

My Everyday Life: Week 42

Here’s what this past week looked like- My Everyday Life Week 42

Yes.

This week I spent an hour and a half at the Apple store. My phone was in a continuous loop of rebooting. For about 3 days I couldn’t use my phone for more than 2 minutes without it rebooting on me. It was beyond frustrating, especially because it was a new phone.

I also think I lost a whole bunch of photos in the process.

Life with technology is so complicated. On the flipside, I got to spend a good deal of time without it this week.

A blessing in disguise.

This is how I occupied my time while waiting for an hour for someone to help me….EVEN THOUGH I HAD AN APPOINTMENT.

Meal prep this week!

Notes from Cherry Bombe in my journal.

Something to remember:

I put peanut butter and granola on top of a piece of banana bread and it was AMAZING.

This cake is everything.

Find the cat. Also my screen is broken.

I had only been in the church for funerals.

It’s been chilly here this week. I’m enjoying it thoroughly.

Also, these overalls from GAP are my favorite thing ever right now.

LISTS

October 20, 2017

I LOVE LISTS

Welcome to I LOVE LISTS. It’s Friday, let’s search the internet together!

Drinking + online shopping =
How to grow your Instagram following– LOL
Devices are ruining our family time.
I can’t believe professors have to think about this.
Things lined up perfectly. YAAAAS.
I am an empath.
I would like to see this diffuser with no lights on please.
This is like a turducken but not.
All the store bought pie crusts tested!
These murals are soooooooo cool.
More American teenagers are suffering from anxiety than ever.
YOU DO YOU
Autumn around the world.
Quick Halloween Costumes for kids. L Trader Joe’s Employee, please!
Sardine Can costume! SO CUTE.
What makes milk shelf stable?
Looking for a new duvet cover… one, two or three?
Sometimes you need to sit and wait for the right moment to unfold.
How to get people to smile NATURALLY on camera.
I love Harrison Ford.
Whoaaaaaaaaa
Best new restaurants in America.
Books I’m excited about: The Wisdom of Sundays / The House That Pinterest Built

recipes

October 18, 2017

Spiced Brown Sugar Pound Cake

We can show our support in many ways. It doesn’t always have to be in big & bold ways. A series of small acts can really add up, especially in our current state.

Support can mean volunteering at school. It can be hosting a group of people who inspire action to share a meal. It could be gathering a group of people to help a family in need. It could be writing letters to help advocate for change. It could be dropping a cake off to first responders who worked tirelessly through trauma. It could be really listening to what someone has to say.

This Spiced Brown Sugar Pound Cake with Molasses Glaze recipe comes from Julia Turshen’s latest book, Feed the Resistance. Inside the book, you’ll find many recipes to help fuel your gatherings, ideas for places to reach out as well as things you can do to help that take less than 10 minutes. This book is here to help inspire ACTION.

Because honestly, food has the power to unite us all.

How did this cake turn out? Really well. So well in fact that I thought to myself…hmm this tastes like a pumpkin spice cake but I can’t believe there’s no pumpkin in there, let me have ANOTHER (and another) piece to make sure I’m really tasting what I am tasting.

I made this cake to share with my neighbors. Because community + support starts in your own neighborhood!

LISTS

October 16, 2017

Intentions for the Week

It’s MONDAY! Wahoo. Cooper has school off today. He’s had a 5 day weekend so our schedule has been thrown off, to say the least. I had hopes of accomplishing a lot last week but the fires made things a little complicated. We’ll be getting out of the house more this week. THANK HEAVENS. This week is going to be quite hectic.

The good news is that I already have a head start on laundry and I completed a little meal prep action last night that includes: