1. My newest obsession are the team jackets that the NHL WAGS have had made for the playoffs. If you search this on social media you can see how cool they are. And yes, of course I love the Pens the most. It’s very nostalgic!

2. Chocolate chip butter swim biscuits. WHAT!

3. As someone who is always ten million degrees, I want to learn more about this bed jet thing. It’s like a fan that keeps your bed cool? We already sleep in a freezing cold room, but I basically can’t get cold enough.

4. Nostalgic photos from the 80s. Pretty sure my grandparents had that exact TV. Our neighbor threw one of those roller skates at my brother’s eye. And I can still smell that strawberry shortcake doll!

5. TV things!! Oh my, I am just loving this season of Your Friends and Neighbors. Jon Hamm is everything.

6. It’s time to have an Ina Garten spring.

7. I’m about to start Yesteryear because I’ve seen everyone raving about it! Can’t wait.

8. 10 things to get rid of while spring cleaning! Um, what happens when I don’t recognize any of the chargers?

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Oh how I love a pasta pie!

This skillet bucatini pie is such a fun twist on eating pasta! A meaty marinara sauce starts it off, then hot bucatini pasta and shredded cheese are stirred right in the skillet. The whole thing gets baked in the oven until it becomes like a pizza/pie, held together with melty cheese. 

It’s a showstopping dish because of how it looks, but at the same time it is so easy! It’s almost as easy as making pasta with meat sauce and jarred marinara. The only difference is we’re keeping it piled together in a skillet, adding a blanket of mozzarella and baking it. 

Then serving it in SLICES!!

How fun is that?! 

I’ve made a few different pasta pies in my day and they are always a huge hit! This pesto bucatini pie is probably my favorite. I also love this cacio e pepe pie, but the kids find it slightly too spicy. The kids love anything with marinara, of course.

However, if pasta without red sauce is available, I’m all over it.  (more…)

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We packed alot in to this one!

Cutest boy!

Who absolutely won’t…

… take off his hockey gear. It’s SO cute.

Beauty.

Dinner before a show!

We saw Shucked and it was great!

Had a little morning breakfast with Jordy.

The trees are really starting to bloom!

Max & Emilia’s favorite strength class.

I cannot! She’s a golden retriever!

And then my heart exploded.

I mean!!!

Has there ever been anything cuter?! I don’t even remember Max being this cute!

Speaking of, he had hockey tryouts all week.

And then went to the Pens game!

Very jealous I didn’t get to go.

I mean, like VERY.

This weekend was Emilia’s spring play!

Rainbows all over the floor while we wait for it to start.

She was Nala in the Lion King!

Love her.

Happiest girl.

Jordan and Max both had birthday parties…

And then we all saw Emilia’s next show!

Funny boys.

The second is always more relaxed and funny. They aren’t as nervous!

She’s bummed it’s over and said “I wish I could do this everyday!”

So lucky they are mine!!!

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What’s on your menu this week?!

What To Eat This Week

Tomato soup with crispy quinoa

One pan chicken artichoke couscous

Sticky orange salmon bowls

Toasty cauliflower buttered noodles

Smashburger salad

Italian chopped salad on grilled sourdough

Lemony chicken chopped salad

S’mores overnight oats

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Happy Saturday!

This week on the blog, we celebrated the one year anniversary of Easy Everyday! I also shared this lemony chicken chopped salad, a bunch of dinners I make when I don’t know what to cook and this one pan chicken artichoke couscous. You can also find all my sephora sale favorites here!

My substack newsletter can be found here, where I share something new each week! You can find all my favorites in my amazon store front, shopmy and LTK shop!

There’s a new menu for the week and a new peek inside our everyday life.

Thank you for continuing to make Easy Everyday absolutely amazing . If you haven’t got your book yet, you can order here! xo

What I’m Loving This Week

The most stunning lemon cream pie.

Grilled mexican street corn salad looks amazing.

These chicken taquitos are calling my name.

Steak crostini that is out of this world.

How cute is this melon ball shot?!

Oreo brownies. OMG.

Need to make these beef satay bowls.

Creamy beans and greens! Yes please.

Making a blood orange spritz this weekend.

Sour cream coffee cake looks incredible.

Craving these garlic noodles.

Banana bread chocolate chip cookies! Whoa.

Just going to enjoy a whole orange bundt cake.

Buffalo wings forever.

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Here’s an easy, delish meal that you can make in one pan!

This chicken and artichoke couscous is super simple but absolutely packed with flavor, from the chicken thighs, to the lemony herby couscous and the briney artichokes. It’s delicious, satisfying and ideal for a weeknight meal. 

I love almost anything that can be made in one pan and Eddie loves anything with chicken thighs, so this works great for us. The kids love couscous and will happily eat the chicken thighs if they are juicy and tender and shredded, so it’s usually a win all around.

Which doesn’t always happen.

So when it does… I’m all for it. 

I always associate artichokes with April. Maybe it’s the whole “A” thing or just a spring thing, but it’s the time of year when I’m craving artichokes the most! All lemony and wonderful. Briney, a little tart, even a little buttery. 

This is how I make it!

First up, the chicken thighs. You want to sear the heck out of them. Brown them until they are nice and golden because not only will it give the chicken tons of flavor, it leaves those little brown bits in the pan. And that makes everything else taste amazing too. 

Once the chicken thighs are browned, I start the couscous. This is so simple. I toast it in the same pan to add more depth of flavor. This makes such a huge difference and it’s a step that takes mere minutes.  (more…)

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I’ve got dinner inspo for you today!

I threw together a list of some of my favorite recipes that I keep in a list when I don’t know what else to make. Things that I make when I don’t feel like cooking and am majorly lacking inspiration for dinner. I’ve shared one of these posts before and you guys loved it, so I figured it was time for another one!

I’m always looking for weeknight meal inspiration that includes meals that everyone will eat. There are a few big family favorites on this list as week as a couple of dishes that I really like to make for just myself.

What do you make when you don’t feel like cooking dinner?! Besides a phone call for takeout…

27 Easy Recipes For Dinner

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One year ago today, my 4th cookbook Easy Everyday was released into the world!

It has been so fun watching you make alllll the recipes inside of the book! This is so jam-packed with so many great dishes. Sometimes I FORGET what is inside my own books because I am constantly testing so many new recipes. And then I flip through and see something I adore and have to make it over and over. Love them!

If you don’t have a copy of Easy Everyday, you can grab yours here. It’s on MAJOR sale right now!

And if you’re new to Easy Everyday, it is packed with over 100 fantastic recipes, from breakfast to dinner to snacks to treats to mocktails and more. We have simple and flavorful dishes for every time time of day, some entertaining snacks, another one (!) of my signature sauces & dressings chapters (the fridge essentials that elevate everything!), so many tips for how I get meals prepped and ready for the week along with a lot of our family favorites. Along with so much more.

Inside, you will find:

• Over 100+ effortless recipes for everyday life.
• An assortment of all sorts of recipes, many of them meatless and vegetarian.
• My 10-minute meal prep strategy for EVERY recipe.
• My pantry and fridge essentials, aka the recipes I can’t live without. They change the game for easy meals.
• My tips and tricks for how to get a meal on the table for your family, consistently and in an enjoyable way, without stress!
• Low-maintenance, uncomplicated dishes!
• All my usual ramblings and of course, photos for everything. Woohoo!

To celebrate one year of Easy Everyday, I’m giving you a sneak peek recipe of my smashburger salad, which is one of my absolute FAVORITE recipes in the book! I am so thankful for all of your support over the years. You mean the world to me!

The smashburger salad relies on those super thin smashed patties with scraggly edges and crispy sides, melty cheese right on top and so much freaking flavor. It’s more than just my regular cheeseburger salad. It’s the elevated, updated version! A grown up version.

The best part is that it has a caramelized onion vinaigrette that’s in the book!! Now, you’ll have to grab the book to get that vinaigrette recipe, but in the meantime, here’s an excellent dill pickle vinaigrette that goes too!

I could drink pickle dressing, to be honest. (more…)

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1. Need to make this lime chiffon pie. OMG.

2. I have been loving these jellies and I’m pretty sure they are my most hated item by Eddie. He haaaaates them. It’s actually pretty funny. But they look so cute with pants and jeans! P.S. he would not be happy to know that I’m lusting over a clear designer jelly flip flop that is about five times the price of those.

3. I love pickles like a crazy person, but I don’t think I could do pickle oreos. What!

4. All I want in life is the starbucks iced cherry chai to come back. That cherry cold foam was everything.

5. TV things! I watched Trust Me on netflix. Yikes! Also sort of made me miss Big Love, one of the best HBO shows ever.

6. All weekend I was obsessed with the style of the golf WAGs at the masters. They all looked sooooo good.

7. Still can’t believe my sourdough starter is alive. Three years later?!

8. Very obsessed with smoothie bowls right now. I just get an acai base with strawberries, blueberries and banana. Then I take my own grape nuts and add them like a true 84 year old.

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I’ve made you lunch today!

This lemony chicken chopped salad is so crunchy, refreshing and delicious! I love making it ahead of time for lunches during the week or even throwing it together for a quick dinner! It’s super satisfying and tastes incredible. 

It’s like spring in a bowl, in the best way possible. 

This is one of those salads that you can make when the produce isn’t exactly in season yet. I’m there right now. The things that I am so excited about – all that delicious summer garden produce that makes salads and, heck, just regular meals taste so wonderful?

We aren’t there yet here in Pittsburgh!

It’s probably the reason that spring is my least favorite season. Sure, I can find good things about it, but the produce and seasonal eating is seriously lacking. It’s just not my favorite! 

This makes it better though. A super crunchy salad that you can eat by fork or chip, with texture that makes a meal so enjoyable. 

You know what a texture freak I am, so this is right up my alley!

Here’s what goes into this bowl: 

First, a base of chopped cabbage. That’s where the crunch is starting! Yes, we’re layering our crunch. And don’t worry, this is going to soak in the dressing and be so finely chopped that it crunches beautifully. You’ll love it!

Chickpeas, and you can even roast them if you want more crunch. (more…)

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