If you meal prep just one thing over the weekend, my best (and favorite) advice is to always make a sauce. I’m a strong believer that a simple, flavorful sauce is the single thing that will take any meal from good to great. And the more simple, the better.
You truly don’t need a lot of ingredients or effort to pull together a really good sauce, and these 10 recipes prove it. Start with three ingredients (and a little salt and pepper, if you like) and you’ve got all you need.
No one can become a devout minimalist — or purge their entire life and home of all unnecessary belongings — in just 15 minutes. But everyone can take a few minutes out of their day to do a few small tasks that could you get you traveling down the road toward living a more minimal life.
There are two goals most of us strive for when packing lunch: to save money and eat something healthy. By healthy, we mean something that’s full of feel-good ingredients like vegetables, whole grains, and lean protein. Sometimes it can feel hard to accomplish both at the same time, but these 10 recipes prove that it’s actually quite easy. Hearty grain bowls, pantry frittatas, and freezer-friendly wraps are wholesome lunch ideas that don’t require you to dig deep into your wallet.
While meal prepping over the weekend is a great way to ensure you have lunches to pack through the week, things don’t always go as planned. Sometimes Sunday gets ahead of you and you realize you’ve got nothing to bring. Don’t worry! You won’t have to resort to buying lunch all week if you turn to these quick recipes. They require minimal ingredients and can even be pulled together in the morning before you head out the door.
Snake plants, also know as mother-in-law’s tongue or sansevieria, have become increasingly popular, and rightly so. With their striking lines and hardiness, they’re the houseplants even black thumbs can show off. They also act as air purifiers to improve your home’s air quality.
Here’s how to keep them happiest.
It’s no secret that we love a smart storage solution. A storage solution that looks smart too? Well, we just lose our minds over that kind of stuff.
And so explains our current obsession with YAMAZAKI home. Do you know the brand?
My mom taught me how to arrange flowers, negotiate the purchase of an antique rug, and wear a black turtleneck year-round. I taught her how to shop for groceries. And recently, her lesson moved on from regular grocery stores to one of my favorite places to hunt for specialty foods: HomeGoods.
My mom claims visiting the store feels like “shopping in our basement,” which refers to the mishmash of furniture, clothing, and knick-knacks you have to sort through before you find the thing that was worth the work it took looking for it. But catch me in the right mood and I’m thrilled by the prospect of wandering those aisles only to emerge with all kinds of delicious things to cook with or eat.
My mom joined me on my latest trip and these are the tips I passed along.
We all have different standards of how we wish to maintain our homes. But sometimes, no matter how good our intentions and how hard we try, we just cannot keep on top of our spaces the way we’d like to.
Here are some reasons you might be getting stuck, and some fixes to help hoist you out of the rut.
Unlike the grocery store, I typically show up to the farmers market without a list in hand. While I have an idea of what’s in season and what vegetables to expect, I stick with buying what’s fresh and looks good at the moment. Then comes the fun (and sometimes overwhelming, tbh!) part of deciding how to turn it into dinner. From pasta and stir-fries, to salads and casseroles, here are 25 easy recipes to turn your produce into dinner.
Vanilla ice cream doesn’t have the best reputation in the frozen dessert world. For starters, it’s an insult to call something “vanilla,” as the suggestion implies that whatever you’re referring to is essentially boring AF. Now we are about to add insult to injury with some cold-hearted facts: Nearly one in five store-bought vanilla ice creams doesn’t even contain vanilla, according to U.K. consumer insight organization Which?. Even worse, they don’t contain fresh cream or milk either — hallmarks of what actually constitutes ice cream.
At this time, we’d like to take a moment and channel our inner Ina Garten to say that sometimes store-bought is not fine.