October 26, 2020

Intentions for the Week

Intentions for the Week- Week 44 of 2020

It’s MONDAY! We made it to another week. This weekend was restorative! I got a bunch of stuff done around the house including:

organizing Cooper’s closet
cleaning out our utensil drawer & kitchen tool drawer
did gardening
decorated the mantle for Halloween (I need to take photos!)
got to ground zero with laundry (YAY)
cleaned out the freezer

oh and I did MEAL PREP!

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Cleaned out the fridge and filled it back up with #mealprep ✨ Here’s what we are starting the week with! #shutterbeanmealprep

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Meal Prep this week includes:

pumpkin muffins (was recipe testing!)
iced tea
radishes
roasted delicata squash
roasted tomatoes
roasted squash seeds
sauteed spinach
quinoa
ranch dip
pickled onions
red peppers
beet salad
zucchini fritters

Let’s get our Intentions for the Week down, shall we?

my everyday life, Photography

October 25, 2020

My Everyday Life Week 43

Here’s what this past week looked like- My Everyday Life Week 43

Taking him for errands after school. He’s getting TALL.

Added one of my Mom’s paintings (she bought) in my kitchen makes me happy. I’m also using the ceramic bowl she made in 1977 (it’s dated!) for my garlic.

On the agenda this weekend.

Proud plant Mama! I can’t wait to see what this looks like this time next year.

Purple morning.

LISTS

October 23, 2020

I LOVE LISTS

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In my happy place, packaging up orders for @thehandwritingclub It’s one of my favorite ways to make magic. It’s also helped me practice my handwriting for the past three years. #practicemakesbetter #makemagic ✨🖊

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Grab yourself a goodie from my Etsy Shop!

recipes

October 22, 2020

Curry Zucchini Soup (dairy-free!)

In 2007, I posted the recipe for my Mom’s Curry Zucchini Soup. My blog wasn’t even a year old yet. The soup was something my Mom made every year to start our Christmas Eve dinner. It’s a soup that I’ve been making since I called her up for the recipe one night in college. If you do the math, it’s been about 2 decades of making THIS SOUP that I never grow tired of.

Fast forward many years later and LOOK, MOM, YOUR SOUP IS IN A MAGAZINE.

Better Homes & Gardens is running a special Meal Prep issue right now and your girl has her own spread in it!

You can order a copy here if you can’t find it at your local newsstand.

My Mom would have probably shown my meal prep spread to all of the clerks and baggers while buying the issue in the grocery store. It was no secret how proud of me she was. She dropped my business cards wherever/whenever she could.

So, here we are. It’s 2020. Colder weather is upon us and I want soup. My oldest brother is vegan and I’m starting to cut down my dairy consumption waaaaaaaay down, so I adapted her curry zucchini soup recipe to accommodate us!

With the help of cashew cream, you wouldn’t really have any idea that it’s not heavy cream in the soup.

I don’t have to take a lactose pill to eat this soup anymore. YAY.

Life is all about adapting & adjusting to help keep the magic alive. Hooray for old + new recipes.

I love that my Mom’s recipes live on in other people’s kitchens. Her hard work making traditions in the kitchen has sure paid off!

LISTS

October 19, 2020

Intentions for the Week

Intentions for the Week – Week 43 of 2020

Happy Monday, friends!

This weekend was a busy one. My brother-in-law came over to help us with our sprinkler system. I am excited to have some of my morning watering be automated. I’ve been doing a lot of it by hand for the past year and I CANNOT wait to see how things unfold. Cooper and I watched a lot of the new Home Edit show on Netflix and it gave me a boost of energy to organize. I tackled a major paper pile this weekend and I’ve been slowly cleaning out drawers around the house and I reorganized our homework station. I hope to continue the momentum this week. Here are my Intentions for the Week!