Just packed with flavor: Oven baked Yogurt-Marinated Chicken Drumsticks are reminiscent of tandoori chicken, but simpler to throw together. Here's a super budget-friendly (and super flavorful) Yogurt-Marinated Chicken Drumsticks recipe! I wanted to try something different this week, and this baked yogurt-marinated chicken recipe is mildly reminiscent of tandoori chicken -- but simpler, and oven baked with its …
This week's read is Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper. Part memoir, part history, and part love letter to the English language, this funny and enlightening book is a thoroughly enjoyable romp through the world of lexicography. A behind-the-scenes book about how dictionaries are written might sound dull, but Word by Word is smart, entertaining, and more fascinating …
Let's talk today about eating a whole foods diet on an ALDI budget and how to save on real foods! Note, though, that "whole foods" isn't capitalized in the title above: They're very clever to have capitalized (in all senses of the term), but I'm not talking Whole Foods at the moment. Those of you who …
Here’s your easy weekly ALDI meal plan for the week of 4/23/17: Pick up everything on the shopping list below, then start cooking on Sunday. *** Subscribe to the weekly ALDI meal plans here *** Hope you find these free ALDI meal plans useful! A quick aside... Guess what... I wrote a book! If you enjoy these …
So, let's say that you're poking around the fridge and happen to find some spinach that's starting to wilt, and some mushrooms that really need to be used soon, and a bunch of eggs from your backyard chickens. Well, these things just might all jump in a pan together and form themselves into an easy …
What a beautiful day out today! If only we could have this kind of weather all summer long. Mr. 10 was off school again today on a four day holiday weekend, so we spent the afternoon at the Morton Arboretum with friends (and then stopped at Oberweis to use free kids cone coupons from a school reading program …