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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
Do you find it easy or hard to find a gift for your significant other for Valentine’s Day? I love to give gifts and am always searching for the perfect gift. But let’s be honest most of us don’t always have the time to search for the perfect gift. I hope my Valentine’s Day Gift Guide makes searching for the perfect gift a little easier for you. Gifts for the Bartender Crafthouse By Fortessa Boston Shaker It can be tough to find the perfect shaker. This one by Fortessa is a great option. I find that this style is much easier to use. Buy Today* ZWILLING Sorrento 4-pc Double-Wall Pint & Pilsner Glass…
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How To Keep Your Kitchen Organized
Have you organized your kitchen in the last few years? With most of us spending more time at home I feel like we are all trying to make our spaces more organized and pretty. Once you organize your kitchen it doesn’t stay that way unless you tend to it on a regular basis. What are the best ways to keep your kitchen organized? Check out my tips below. 1. Did you label everything when you originally organized your kitchen? If not now is the time to go ahead and take that extra step, especially if you live with other people. Not everyone will pay attention to where you originally put stuff but if there…
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5 Ways to Eat More Fruits & Vegetables
Sometimes it can seem really difficult to get enough fruits and vegetables in my meals. I get frustrated trying to think of new ways to eat them. However, I have realized over time that the simplest ways to include more fruits and vegetables into your diet are normally the easiest to do. You don’t need complicated recipes or crazy fad diets, just some simple steps and you won’t even notice the change you make. 1. Prep your produce as soon as you get home from the grocery store. After grocery shopping most of us our tired and don’t want to clean and prep our produce, however, it is so much easier to grab…
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3 Healthy Cookbooks to Eat Better
I love food and don’t believe in having off limits food or recipes, however, I do try to follow the 80/20 rule. What’s that? Eat healthier meals 80% of the time and 20% of the time have whatever you want.  For me I have found this works well and I never really feel deprived of anything I love. That being said I am always searching for great healthy recipes that don’t sacrifice the taste in order to be healthy. Below you will find my 3 favorite healthy cookbooks that help me eat better. All of them offer easy to follow, delicious recipes that your whole family will love. 1. The Healthy Swaps…
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My 3 Favorite Smoothie Cookbooks
Every year I try to start the new year with having a few more smoothies and healthier meals to counteract everything I have devoured over the Christmas holidays. I don’t really diet much but I do like to follow the 80/20 rule and have found smoothies to be a great way to stick to it. There are so many smoothie cookbooks out now that it can be a little overwhelming. Below are my top three that I am always reaching for and that I love. 1. The Body Reset Diet Cookbook About five years ago I stumbled on The Body Reset Diet book and tried it. I had great success with it and…
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25 New Cookbooks to Look Forward to in 2022
I am excited for the new cookbooks releasing in 2022. Each year some amazing cookbooks are released and I can’t wait to try them all. Below is a list of 25 cookbooks that I want to add to my collection in 2022. 1. Italian Cooking Like Nonna: Authentic Family Recipes with Extraordinary Flavor and Endless Variations By: Caroline De LucaRelease Date: January 11, 2022Â Pre-Order Today* 2. More Plants On Your Plate: Over 75 Fast and Easy Plant-Forward Recipes & Meal Prep Tips By: Bailey RhatiganRelease Date: January 18, 2022 Pre-Order Today* 3. Savory Dinner Pies: More than 80 Delicious Recipes from Around the World By: Ken HaedrichRelease Date: January 18, 2022 Pre-Order…
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My 5 Favorite Cookbooks of 2021
Picking out my favorite cookbooks of the year is a lot like picking out your favorite child (or at least I imagine it is) and this year was no exception. The cookbooks offered in 2021 were so diverse and no matter what cuisine you were craving their was a cookbook for it. Here are my favorite 5 cookbooks of 2021. 1. The Pioneer Woman Cooks Super Easy! I am a huge fan of The Pioneer Woman. Her cookbooks are so well written with delicious easy to follow recipes. The Pioneer Woman Cooks Super Easy! offers shortcut recipes for all of our busy lives. Click here to check out my full review of The Pioneer Woman…
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French Desserts
“What I learned over the many years I lived in France and from my extensive traveling throughout the country, is that French desserts-the ones the French make in their homes-are easy to make,” Hillary Davis. As a self proclaimed Francophile I have always had a love for French desserts. The French Desserts cookbook provides easy to understand recipes that allow home chefs of any level to make a delicious dessert in their own kitchen. I found some many recipes I wanted to make in French Desserts it made it difficult to choose just two. In the next few months I plan to cook through a lot more of these recipes.
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Easy Old-Fashioned Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Growing up I spent a lot of time with my Nana and when we were together, we baked. Sometimes we made snickerdoodles or fudge but one of my favorite things to make with her was her easy old-fashioned chocolate chip cookie recipe. These homemade chocolate chip cookies were always delicious with the perfect crisp edges and soft centers full of chocolate chips and are still the ones I make today. One time when we were making these easy chocolate chip cookies, we couldn’t get the bag of flour open. My Nana kept pulling at it and finally, it came open and went all over us and the entire kitchen. We couldn’t stop laughing,…
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Beat Bobby Flay
“People point out to me all the time that I never lose. Well, those people clearly don’t watch that often! The bottom line is that I win about 65 to 70 percent of the time,” Bobby Flay. When home chefs think about chefs like Bobby Flay we assume that every dish they make is a winner, and that’s not true. I love the Beat Bobby Flay show as it showcases how any chef can become a master of a dish. Now we can take this inspiration using the recipes in Beat Bobby Flay cookbook and apply it to our own lives. Will all of our recipe attempts be a success? No, but we…
